William P.S. Earle
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William Pitt Striker Earle was an American director of the silent film era. He attended Columbia University and worked for a time as a photographer before breaking into the movie business by sneaking onto the lot of Vitagraph Company of America to observe how directors worked.
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Milagros de la Guadalupana
The Better Wife
The Law Decides
Little Miss No-Account
T'Other Dear Charmer
The Dangerous Paradise
The Woman Game
The Way of a Maid
The Dancer of the Nile
The Road of Ambition
Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby
Love's Masquerade
The Last Door
The Lone Wolf's Daughter
The Broken Melody
Whom the Gods Destroy
I Will Repay
Within the Law
Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Mary Jane's Pa
Gilded Lies
Who Goes There?
The Wooing of Princess Pat
For the Honor of the Crew27 credits on file
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William Pitt Striker Earle was an American director of the silent film era. He attended Columbia University and worked for a time as a photographer before breaking into the movie business by sneaking onto the lot of Vitagraph Company of America to observe how directors worked. After a few days of this, Earle approached the studio president and was given his first movie to direct, For the Honor of the Crew, a short about a crew race at Columbia University. He subsequently directed a number of features and shorts for Vitagraph. Later he worked with producer David O. Selznick. Earle founded his own, short-lived production company called Amex Production Corporation with J. S. Joffe, and shot the final two films of his career in Mexico.
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