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Charles Urban

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Anglo-American film producer and entrepreneur

United StatesDirectorsLived 1867 to 1942 · aged 75
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Charles Urban was a German-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War.

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The Coronation of Edward VII1902
The Birth of a Flower1910
A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner1910
The Aerial Submarine1910
Cheese Mites1903
Banks of the Nile1911
Cervino 19011903
The Aerial Anarchists1911
The Arlberg Railway1906
The Four Seasons1921
Fording the River1910
Venice and the Grand Canal1904
The Harvest1908
Varieties of Sweet Peas1911
Trilby and Svengali1911
Hackenschmidt-Rogers [The Great Wrestling Match]1908
Britain Prepared1915
The World, the Flesh and the Devil1914
Building a British Railway: Constructing the Locomotive1911
Fight for the Dardanelles1915
Armenia, Cradle of Humanity1923
Lake Garda, Italy1910
The Pageant Procession1912
Hunting the Red Deer, With the Devon and Somerset Staghounds1904
Torpedo Attack on H.M.S. Dreadnought1907
A Dash to the North Pole1909
Feeding Poultry at Prowse Jones Farm1911
A Run with the Exmoor Staghounds1911
Coronation Drill at Reedham Orphanage1911
Living London1904
Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race1900
Glasgow and the Clyde Coast1912

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Charles Urban was a German-American film producer and distributor, and one of the most significant figures in British cinema before the First World War. He was a pioneer of the documentary, educational, propaganda and scientific film, as well as being the producer of the world's first successful motion picture colour system.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1867 to 1942 · aged 75
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