Travers Vale
English-born silent film director (1865-1927) · United Kingdom · On the map · Directors · Died at 61
Travers Edmund Vale, was an English-born silent film director, theatre impresario, playwright, and actor. Raised primarily in Victoria, Australia, he worked as a photographer, playwright and theatre manager there and in New Zealand prior to his career in film.
Travers Vale is read about 4 times a day, in 5 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 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.
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Barriers of the LawFilm, Writer1924The Street of TearsFilm, Director1922
A Pasteboard CrownFilm, Director, Producer1919
The Quickening FlameFilm, Director1918A Woman of RedemptionFilm, Director
The Zero HourFilm, 1918Director1917
A Self-Made WidowFilm, Director1916
Beyond the WallFilm, Director1915
East LynneFilm, Director1914Her Old TeacherFilm, Director1913Day BreakFilm, DirectorStreets of New YorkFilm, 1913Director1865Born31 January 1865People around Travers
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Alice Brady Travers directed Betsy Ross (1917)
Ethel Clayton Travers directed The Bondage of Fear (1917)
Montagu Love Travers directed The Men She Married (1916)
Frank Mayo Travers directed Easy Money (1917)
John Bowers Travers directed A Self-Made Widow (1917)
June Elvidge Travers directed The Bluffer (1919)
Charles Hill Mailes Travers directed Cousin Pons (1914)
Franklin Ritchie Also in The Honor of the Law and The Iron Master
William A. Brady Produced The Men She Married (1916)
Carlyle Blackwell Travers directed Sally in Our Alley (1916)
Muriel Ostriche Travers directed Sally in Our Alley (1916)
Gail Kane Travers directed The Men She Married (1916)
Rockliffe Fellowes Travers directed The Man Hunt (1918)
Arthur Ashley Also in The Men She Married (1916)
Harry Carey Travers directed The Abandoned Well (1913)
Georges Ohnet Also in The Iron Master and The Soul of Pierre
Nita Naldi Travers directed Life (1920)
Madge Evans Travers directed Vengeance (1918)
Rod La Rocque Travers directed Life (1920)
Jack Mower Travers directed Life (1920)
G. Raymond Nye Travers directed The Woman of Mystery (1915)
Edward Kimball Also in Man's Woman and The Bondage of Fear
George MacQuarrie Also in Betsy Ross and The Street of Tears
Lillian Cook Also in Betsy Ross and Darkest Russia
Filmography 38
40 credits on file
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About this person
Early in his career, he was known by the name S. F. Travers Vale under which name he authored his first known play, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1888) which is an adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by Fergus Hume. He established his own theatre troupe, The Travers Vale Dramatic Company, which was in residence at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide in 1889 and the Auckland Opera House in New Zealand in 1890.
