Harold M. Shaw
American film director (1877-1926) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 48
Harold Marvin Shaw was an American stage performer, film actor, screenwriter, and director during the silent era.
Harold M. Shaw is read about 9 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 24 August 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Held to AnswerFilm, Director
Rouged LipsFilm, 1923Director1922The Wheels of ChanceFilm, Director1921KippsFilm, Director1918
Symbol of SacrificeFilm, Writer1916GloriaFilm, Writer
Me and Me MokeFilm, 1916Director1914
A Christmas CarolFilm, Director1913
At Bear Track GulchFilm, Director1912
A Christmas AccidentFilm, Director
The Land Beyond the SunsetFilm, 1912Director1911A Modern CinderellaFilm1910Michael StrogoffFilm
The Attack on the MillFilm, 19101877Born3 November 1877People around Harold
Close ties
J. Searle Dawley Directed A Rose of the Tenderloin and Lochinvar
Oscar Apfel Directed Home and The Awakening of John Bond
Charles Stanton Ogle Also in What Happened to Mary? (1912)
Mary Fuller Also in What Happened to Mary? (1912)
Edna Flugrath Harold directed De Voortrekkers (1916)
Miriam Nesbitt Also in What Happened to Mary? (1912)
Herbert Yost Harold directed The Crime of Carelessness (1912)
Bannister Merwin Wrote What Happened to Mary? (1912)
Charles Brabin Directed What Happened to Mary? (1912)
Augustus Phillips Harold directed Hearts and Diamonds (1912)
Mary Brough Harold directed Beauty and the Barge (1914)
Bigelow Cooper Also in The Crime of Carelessness (1912)
Percy Marmont Harold directed De Voortrekkers (1916)
Evelyn Brent Harold directed Held to Answer (1923)George Lessey Harold directed At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
Herbert Prior Harold directed At Bear Track Gulch (1913)
Lorimer Johnston Directed Gloria (1916)
Mabel Trunnelle Harold directed The Crime of Carelessness (1912)
Milton Rosmer Harold directed General John Regan (1921)
Gerald Ames Harold directed Brother Officers (1915)
Ashley Miller Directed The Lure of the City (1911)- Edward O'Neill Harold directed A Dear Fool (1921)
- Mary Dibley Also in The Heart of a Child (1916)
- Teddy Arundell Also in Kipps and The Woman of His Dream
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 28
31 credits on file
Media & music
Photos 10
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"About this person
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.
