Harry Solter

Infobox actor

|Harry Solter, 1908
name = Harry Solter
birthdate = 1874
birthplace = United States, USA
deathdate = March 2, 1920
deathplace = United States, USA
occupation = Actor, film director and screenwriter
yearsactive = 1908 - 1917
imdb_id = 0813602

Henry Lewis "Harry" Solter (1874 - March 2, 1920) was a pioneer silent film actor, screenwriter, and director.

Harry Solter began his career as an actor in 1908 with Biograph Studios. That same year he met actress Florence Lawrence while making the film "Romeo and Juliet" for Vitagraph Studios and married on August 30th. In 1909 Solter began working for Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP) as an actor but also as a director. Over the next nine years, he directed 148 silent films.

In 1912 Harry Solter and his wife Florence Lawrence established the Victor Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1913 they sold out to Carl Laemmle whose amalgamation of several studios created the colossal Universal Film Manufacturing Co.. Solter continued to direct for the new entity until 1918 when health problems emerged. He died in 1920 at the age of forty-six and was interred in the Baltimore Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.

Selected filmography

Director

* "The Wife He Bought" (1918)
* "Face on the Screen"
* "The Lash of Power" (1917)
* "The Spotted Lily" (1917)
* "The Woman Who Won" (1914)
* "The Honor of the Humble" (194)
* "Her Ragger Knight" (1914)
* "A Disenchantment" (1914)
* "Pawns of Destiny" (1914)
* "The Little Mail Carrier" (1914)
* "Diplomatic Flo" (1913)
* "The Honeymooners" (1914)
* "The Stepmother" (1914)
* "The Law's Decree" (1914)
* "The False Bride" (1914)
* "The Romance of Photograph" (1914)
* "The Coryphee" (1914)
* "A Girl and Her Money" ( 1913)
* "Influence of Sympathy" (1913)
* "Unto the Third Generation" (1913)
* "His Wife's Child" (1913)
* "The Spender" (1913)
* "The Girl o' the Woods" (1913)
* "The Closed Door" (1913)
* "Owing More" (1912)
* "The Lady Leone" (1912)
* "The Cross-Roads" (1912)
* "Tangled Relations" (1912)
* "Flo's Discipline" (1912)
* "All for Love" (1912)
* "After All" (1912)
* "The Winning Punch" (1912)
* "Her Cousin Fred" (1912)
* "The Chance Shot" (1912)
* "The Mill Buyers" (1912)
* "Taking a Chance" (1912)
* "Not Like Other Girls" (1912)
* "The Players" (1912)
* "In Swift Waters" (1912)
* "A Surgeon's Heroism" (1912)
* "A Village Romance" (1912)
* "The American Girl" (1911)
* "Art Versus Music" (1911)
* "A Girlish Impulse" (1911)
* "A Head for Business" (1911)
* "A Blind Deception" (1911)
* "His Chorus Girl Wife" (1911)
* "Aunt Jane's Legacy" (1911)
* "One On Reno" (1911)
* "A Rural Conqueror" (1911)
* "The Slavey's Affinity" (1911)
* "The Matchmaker" (1911)
* "The Life Saver" (1911)
* "The Story of Rosie's Rose" (1911)
* "Romance of Pond Cove" (1911)
* "The Secret" (1911)
* "Her Two Sons" (1911)
* "The Gypsy" (1911)
* "During Cherry Time" (1911)
* "Always a Way" (1911)
* "Higgenses Versus Judsons" (1911)
* "Duke De Ribbon Counter" (1911)
* "The Professor's Ward" (1911)
* "A Game of Deception" (1911)
* "The State Line" (1911)
* "A Good Turn" (1911)
* "A Fascinating Bachelor" (1911)
* "The Hoyden" (1911)
* "The Two Fathers" (1911)
* "The Wife's Awakening" (1911)
* "Her Child's Honor" (1911)
* "Her Artistic Temperament" (1911)
* "The Actress and the Singer" (1911)
* "Vanity and its Cure" (1911)
* "Nan's Diplomacy" (1911)
* "The Test" (1911)
* "A Show Girl's Stratagem" (1911)
* "Age Versus Youth" (1911)
* "His Bogus Uncle" (1911)
* "The Count of Montebello" (1910)
* "All the World's a Stage" (1910)
* "Pressed Roses" (1910)
* "Debt" (1910)
* "The Right Girl" (1910)
* "The Widow" (1910)
* "The Taming of Jane" (1910)
* "The Senator's Double" (1910)
* "Among the Roses" (1910)
* "Once Upon a Time" (1910)
* "The Irony of Fate" (1910)
* "The Mistake" (1910)"
* "Old Heads and Young Hearts" (1910)
* "The Call of the Circus" (1910)
* "A Game for Two" (1910)
* "A Self-Made Hero" (1910)
* "The Nichols on Vacation" (1910)
* "A Reno Romance" (1910)
* "The Eternal Triangle" (1910)
* "The Doctor's Perfidy" (1910)
* "The Maelstrom" (1910)
* "His Second Wife" (1910)
* "The Stage Note" (1910)
* "His Sick Friend" (1910)
* "The Time-Lock Safe" (1910)
* "The Blind Man's Tact" (1910)
* "The Coquette's Suitors" (1910)
* "Never Again" (1910)
* "The Tide of Fortune" (1910)
* "The Right of Love" (1910)
* "The Winning Punch" (1910)
* "Her Generous Way" (1909)
* "The Forest Ranger's Daughter" (1909)
* "Love's Stratagem" (1909)

Actor

* "The Closed Door (1913)
* "The Two Paths" (1911)
* "The Eternal Triangle" (1910) - Undetermined Role
* "The Final Settlement" (1910)
* "The Rocky Road (1910)
* "The Restoration" (1909)
* "They Would Elope" (1909) - At stable
* "Her First Biscuits" (1909)
* "The Son's Return" (1909) - The Employer
* "The Violin Maker of Cremona" (1909) - The Judge
* "What Drink Did" (1909) - The Boss
* "The Cricket on the Hearth" (1909) - Tackleton
* "The Jilt" (1909) - At stock exchange
* "A Baby's Shoe" (1909) - The adoptive father
* "Jones and the Lady Book Agent" (1909) - In Office
* "One Busy Hour" (1909) - In store / Customer
* "Tis and Ill Wind That Blows No Good" (1909) - In crowd
* "Lucky Jim" (1909) - Jim's friend
* "A Troublesome Satchel" (1909)
* A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
* "The Deception" (1909) - Harvey's Friend
* "The Salvation Army Lass" (1909) - Bob Walton
* At the Altar (1909)
* "The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals (1909)
* "The Curtain Pole" (1909)
* "The Firls and Daddy" (1909)
* "The Cord of Life" (1909) - On street
* "The Fascinating Mrs. Francis" (1909) - Young Man's Father
* "Mr. Jones Has a Card Party" (1909) - Guest
* "A Rural Elopement" (1909) - Hungry Henty
* "Love Finds a Way" (1909) - One of the Daughter's Suitora
* "Mrs. Jones Entertains" (1909) - Delivery Man
* "One Touch of Nature" (1909) - Doctor
* "The Helping Hand" (1908) - Bill Wolfe
* "An Awful Moment" (1908) - Judge Mowbray
* "The Test of Friendship" (1908) - The Butler / Foreman
* "The Valet's Wife" (1908) - Postman / Adoption agent
* Money Mad (1908)
* "The Clubman and the Tramp" (1908) - Man on the street
* "The Song of the Shirt" (1908) - Employer / In second restaurant
* "The Guerrilla" (1908) - Confederate soldier/Union soldier - a war based on the events of the American Civil War
* "The Taming of the Shrew" (1908) - Katharina's Father
* "After Many Years" (1908) - Tom Foster
* "The Call of the Wild" - Lieutenant Prose
* "The Planter's Wife" (1908) - Tom Roland
* "The Vaquero's Vow" (1908) - Gonzales
* "Ingomar, the Barbarian" (1908) - Myron
* "Father Gets in the Game" (1908) - Wilkin's son
* "The Zulu's Heart" (1908)- A Boer
* "Richard III" (1908)
* "A Smoked Husband" (1908) - Maid's accomplice
* "Where the Breakers Road" (1908) - at the Beach
* "The Red Girl" (1908) - Bartender
* "Betrayed By A Handprint" (1908) - Mr. Wharton
* "For A Wife's Honor" (1908) - Frank Wilson
* "Balked at the Altar" (1908)
* "For Love of Gold" - Butler
* "The Greaser's Gauntlet" - Party Guest
* "A Calamitous Elopement" (1908) - Frank
* "Deceived Slumming Party" (1908) - Chinese
* "The Tavern Keeper's Daughter" (1908) - Old Man
* "The Stage Rustler" (1908) - Man In Bar
* "The Kentuckian" (1908)
* "’Ostler Joe" (1908) - Wedding guest
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1908)
* "Thompson's Night Out" (1908) - Theatre Patron
* "When Knights Were Bold" (1908)- Nobleman
* "Hulda's Lovers" (1908) - Extra
* "A Famous Escape" (1908) - Prison Guard

External links

*imdb name|id=0813603|name=Harry Solter
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6733 Find-A-Grave - Harry Solter ]

Persondata
NAME= Solter, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Actor, film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH= 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH= United States, USA
DATE OF DEATH= March 2, 1920
PLACE OF DEATH= United States, USA