Florence Lawrence
Canadian-American actress (1886-1938) · Canada · On the map · Actors · Died at 52
Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder.
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Night Must FallFilm1936
Yellow DustFilm1935
Man on the Flying TrapezeFilm, (uncredited)1934
The Old-Fashioned WayFilm, Undetermined Role (uncredited)1933
SecretsFilm, Undetermined Role (uncredited)1932
Sinners in the SunFilm
So Big!Film, 1932Mina (uncredited)1931
The Hard HombreFilm, The Sister1909
1776, or The Hessian RenegadesFilm
Lines of White on a Sullen SeaFilm, 19091908
An Awful MomentFilm, Mrs. Mowbray
Betrayed by a HandprintFilm, 1908Myrtle Vane1907
The Boy, the Bust and the BathFilm, The Lady1886Born2 January 1886People around Florence
Mary Pickford Also in The Lonely Villa and The Country Doctor
D. W. Griffith Directed The Lonely Villa and Those Awful Hats
Mack Sennett Also in The Lonely Villa and Those Awful Hats
J. Stuart Blackton Directed Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet
Owen Moore Also in The Lonely Villa and Resurrection
Robert Harron Also in The Lonely Villa and Those Awful Hats
King Baggot Also in The Broken Oath, Debt and Never Again
George Nichols Also in The Hessian Renegades (1909)
Flora Finch Also in Those Awful Hats and A Wreath in Time
Charles Avery Also in The Lonely Villa and Resurrection
Frank Powell Also in The Lonely Villa (1909)
Gladys Egan Also in The Lonely Villa and The Golden Louis
Siegmund Lubin Produced Her Humble Ministry (1911)
Arthur V. Johnson Also in The Lonely Villa and Resurrection
Charles Inslee Also in A Calamitous Elopement and At the Altar
George M. Gebhardt Also in The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
Herbert Prior Also in At the Altar and After Many Years
Anita Hendrie Also in The Lonely Villa and Those Awful Hats
Herbert Yost Also in At the Altar and The Golden Louis
William V. Ranous Directed Macbeth and Richard III
Adele DeGarde Also in The Lonely Villa and The Country Doctor
Violet Mersereau Also in The Lonely Villa and Her First Biscuits- Guy Hedlund Also in The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
David Miles Also in The Lonely Villa (1909)
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Portrait of Lawrence by Frank C. Bangs Studio, c. 1908
Florence Lawrence in Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908)
Florence Lawrence, Harry Solter and Mack Sennett in The Slave (1909)
Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Lawrence in Resurrection (1909)
Carl Laemmle's promotion of The Broken Oath starring Lawrence (Billboard 1910)
Scene of Lawrence (far right) in 1912 Victor production After All; other cast are (from left) Owen Moore, Victory Bateman on step, and Gladden James.
Owen Moore talks to Florence Lawrence in the silent drama, The Redemption of Riverton (1912)About this person
At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
