J. Searle Dawley
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican director and screenwriter (1877-1949)
James Searle Dawley was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright.
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The Grand Opera House in Manhattan, where Dawley made his stage debut in 1895
Screenshot of D. W. Griffith in Dawley's production Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908)
The "monster" depicted in Edison's promotion of Frankenstein in England
Dawley (second from left) with fellow Edison directors, 1911
Dawley (right) pours water over actress Marguerite Clark, preparing her for scene in Rich Man, Poor Man (1918)Filmography 40
Frankenstein
A Christmas Carol
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Snow White
The Song That Reached His Heart
The Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
Laughing Gas
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Cupid’s Pranks
College Chums
A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
The Death Dance
A Romance of the Cliff Dwellers
Beyond Price
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Twilight
The Phantom Honeymoon
The Relief of Lucknow
Caprice
As a Man Lives
Everybody's Business
Has the World Gone Mad!
The Old Monk's Tale
Who Are My Parents?
In the Bishop's Carriage
A Virgin Paradise
When Men Desire
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Prince and the Pauper
The Lord and the Peasant
Jack and the Beanstalk
An Unselfish Love
The Harvest Moon110 credits on file
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About this person
James Searle Dawley was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Players, Fox, and other studios, he directed more than 300 short films and 56 features, which include many of the early releases of stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Pearl White, Marguerite Clark, Harold Lloyd, and John Barrymore. He also wrote scenarios for many of his productions, including one for his 1910 horror film Frankenstein, the earliest known screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. While film direction and screenwriting comprised the bulk of Dawley's career, he also had earlier working experience in theater, performing on stage for more than a decade and managing every aspect of stagecraft. Dawley wrote at least 18 plays as well for repertory companies and for several Broadway productions.
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