Joe De Grasse

Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.

Joe De Grasse began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored of the theater and took work as a stage actor. In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing.

While working in Hollywood for Universal Pictures, Joe De Grasse met and married one of the few female directors working at the time, Ida May Park (1879-1954). In 1915 he became a founding member of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America.

During his career he directed a total of 86 films.

Joseph De Grasse died in Eagle Rock, California.

elected filmography

As a director:
* A Broadway Scandal (1918)
* The Scarlet Car (1917)
* Anything Once (1917)
* The Empty Gun (1917)
* Triumph (1917)
* Pay Me! (1917)
* A Doll's House (1917)
* The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917)
* The Mask of Love (1917)
* Hell Morgan's Girl (1917)
* The Piper's Price (1917)
* The Price of Silence (1916)
* The Place Beyond the Winds (1916)
* If My Country Should Call (1916)
* The Mark of Cain (1916)
* The Grasp of Greed (1916)
* Bobbie of the Ballet (1916)
* The Gilded Spider (1916)
* Tangled Hearts (1916)
* The Grip of Jealousy (1916)
* Dolly's Scoop (1916)
* Stronger Than Death (1915)
* Father and the Boys (1915)
* Under a Shadow (1915)
* The Millionaire Paupers (1915)
* Lon of Lone Mountain (1915)
* A Mother's Atonement (1915)
* Alas and Alack (1915)
* The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915)
* The Pine's Revenge (1915)
* Mountain Justice (1915)
* Bound on the Wheel (1915)
* Steady Company (1915)
* The Stronger Mind (1915)
* An Idyll of the Hills (1915)
* The Girl of the Night (1915)
* The Grind (1915)
* Maid of the Mist (1915)
* The Desert Breed (1915)
* All for Peggy (1915)
* Outside the Gates (1915)
* Where the Forest Ends (1915)
* Such Is Life (1915)
* When the Gods Played a Badger Game (1915)
* The Threads of Fate (1915)
* The Measure of a Man (1915)
* The Star of the Sea (1915)
* The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915)
* Her Escape (1914)
* A Night of Thrills (1914)
* The Lion, the Lamb, the Man (1914)
* Lights and Shadows (1914)
* Her Life's Story (1914)
* Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914)
* The Pipes o' Pan (1914)
* Her Bounty (1914)

ee also

Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood

References