J. Gordon Edwards

Infobox actor
name = J. Gordon Edwards
birthdate = June 24 1867
birthplace = Montréal, Canada
deathdate = December 31, 1925
deathplace = New York, New York, United States
othername =
occupation = Film director
Film producer
Screenwriter
yearsactive = 1914 - 1924
imdb_id = 0250053

J. Gordon Edwards (June 24 1867–December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's "St. Elmo". Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 to 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox; he still continued to direct until he died in 1925.

Filmography

Producer

* "A Daughter of the Gods" (1916)

Director

* "The Adventurer" (1920)
* "Anna Karenina" (1915)
* "Blindness of Devotion" (1915)
* "Camille" (1917)
* "Cleopatra" (1917)
* "The Darling of Paris" (1917)
* "Drag Harlan" (1920)
* "Madame Du Barry" (1917)
* "The Forbidden Path" (1918)
* "The Galley Slave" (1915)
* "The Green-Eyed Monster" (1916)
* "Heart and Soul" (1917)
* "Heart Strings" (1920)
* "Her Double Life" (1916)
* "Her Greatest Love" (1917)
* "His Greatest Sacrifice" (1921)
* "If I Were King" (1920)
* "It Is the Law" (1924)
* "The Joyous Troublemaker" (1920)
* "The Last of the Duanes" (1919)
* "Life's Shop Window" (1914)
* "The Light" (1919)
* "The Lone Star Ranger" (1919)
* "Nero" (1922)
* "The Net" (1923)
* "The Orphan" (1920)
* "The Queen of Sheba" (1921)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1916)
* "The Rose of Blood" (1917)
* "St. Elmo" (1914)
* "Salome" (1918)
* "The Scuttlers" (1920)
* "The She Devil" (1918)
* "The Shepherd King" (1923)
* "Should a Mother Tell" (1915)
* "The Silent Command" (1923)
* "The Siren's Song" (1919)
* "The Song of Hate" (1915)
* "The Soul of Buddha" (1918)
* "The Spider and the Fly" (1916)
* "Tangled Lives" (1917)
* "The Tiger Woman" (1917)
* "Under the Yoke" (1918)
* "Under Two Flags" (1916)
* "The Unfaithful Wife" (1915)
* "The Vixen" (1916)
* "When a Woman Sins" (1918)
* "When Men Desire" (1919)
* "A Wife's Sacrifice" (1916)
* "Wings of the Morning" (1919)
* "Wolves of the Night" (1919)
* "A Woman There Was" (1919)
* "A Woman's Resurrection" (1915)

Writer

* "The Queen of Sheba" (1921)
* "A Wife's Sacrifice" (1916)
* "Blindness of Devotion" (1915)

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Persondata
NAME= Edwards, J. Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH= June 24 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH= Montréal, Canada
DATE OF DEATH= December 31, 1925
PLACE OF DEATH= New York, New York, United States