Harold M. Shaw
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Harold Marvin Shaw was an American stage performer, film actor, screenwriter, and director during the silent era.
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Newspaper ad for vaudeville show with Shaw, 1908
Inside Edison's busy studio in the Bronx, c. 1912; Shaw is seated with paperwork numbered "26" tucked under his arm. Also present is fellow director Charles Brabin, seated while supervising the film being shot on the right-hand set.![De Voortrekkers (1916) includes battle scenes with several thousand extras costumed as Zulu warriors and as heavily armed Dutch settlers.[28][g]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Screenshot_from_1916_film_De_Voortrekkers_directed_by_Harold_M_Shaw.jpg/500px-Screenshot_from_1916_film_De_Voortrekkers_directed_by_Harold_M_Shaw.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
De Voortrekkers (1916) includes battle scenes with several thousand extras costumed as Zulu warriors and as heavily armed Dutch settlers.[28][g]
Studio buildings of Harold Shaw Films Productions near Cape Town, South Africa, 1918
Stoll's directors (Shaw standing, left) with the studio's managing director Jeffrey Bernerd (sitting, center), late 1920
Shaw at piano rehearsing with Viola Dana for Rouged Lips (1923)
The theater poster for Edison's 1911 Christmas drama in which Shaw starred as "The Clubman"Filmography 28
The Land Beyond the Sunset
A Christmas Accident
A Christmas Carol
The Crime of Carelessness
Winning a Continent
Thirty Days at Hard Labor
At Bear Track Gulch
The Two Columbines
The Ring and the Rajah
Held to Answer
Rouged Lips
The Attack on the Mill
The Rose of Rhodesia
What Happened to Mary
The Heart of a Child
The Awakening of John Bond
Me and Me Moke
Symbol of Sacrifice
A Romance of the Rails31 credits on file
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About this person
Harold Marvin Shaw was an American stage performer, film actor, screenwriter, and director during the silent era. A native of Tennessee, he worked in theatrical plays and vaudeville for 16 years before he began acting in motion pictures for Edison Studios in New York City in 1910 and then started regularly directing shorts there two years later. Shaw next served briefly as a director for Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) in New York before moving to England in May 1913 to be "chief producer" for the newly established London Film Company. During World War I, he relocated to South Africa, where in 1916 he directed the film De Voortrekkers in cooperation with African Film Productions, Limited. Shaw also established his own production company while in South Africa, completing there two more releases, The Rose of Rhodesia in 1918 and the comedy Thoroughbreds All in 1919. After directing films once again in England under contract with Stoll Pictures, he finally returned to the United States in 1922 and later directed several screen projects for Metro Pictures in California before his death in Los Angeles in 1926. During his 15-year film career, Shaw worked on more than 125 films either as a director, actor, or screenwriter.
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