Rollin Summers Sturgeon
From a 1920 magazine
Born(1877-08-25)August 25, 1877
Rock Island, (Illinois)
DiedMay 10, 1961(1961-05-10) (aged 83)
Santa Monica,(California)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)film director and screenwriter

Rollin Summers Sturgeon (August 25, 1877 – May 10, 1961) was an American film director of silent films [1] active from 1910 to 1924. He directed 101 films during this period.

Filmography

Director

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1 1910[2]
  • A Little Lad in Dixie (1911)*short
  • The Trapper's Daughter (1911)*short
  • A Western Heroine (1911)*short
  • Her Cowboy Lover*short
  • The Half-Breed's Daughter (1911)*short
  • The Black Chasm (1911)*short
  • The Heart of a Man (1912)*short
  • Justice of the Desert (1912)*short
  • How States Are Made (1912) *short[3]
  • The Price of Big Bob's Silence (1912)*short
  • The Craven (1912)*short
  • Sheriff Jim's Last Shot (1912)*short
  • The Greater Love (1912)*short
  • The Redemption of Ben Farland (1912)*short
  • The Triumph of Right (1912)*short
  • The Prayers of Manuelo (1912)*short
  • Her Brother (1912)*short
  • At the End of the Trail (1912)*short
  • After Many Years (1912)*short
  • The Redemption of Red Rube (1912)*short
  • Too Much Wooing of Handsome Dan (1912)*short
  • The Ancient Bow (1912)*short
  • A Wasted Sacrifice (1912)*short
  • The Road to Yesterday; or, Memories of Patio Days (1912)*short
  • The Troubled Trail (1912)*short
  • Bill Wilson's Gal (1912)*short
  • When California Was Young (1912)*short
  • The Spirit of the Range (1912) *short
  • Out of the Shadows (1912)*short
  • Timid May (1912)*short
  • Omens of the Mesa (1912)*short
  • Natoosa (1912)*short
  • The Hat (1912)
  • The Better Man (1912)*short
  • A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913) *short
  • The Angel of the Desert (1913) *short
  • The Winning Hand (1913 *short
  • The Joke on Howling Wolf (1913)*short
  • The Smoke from Lone Bill's Cabin (1913)*short
  • The Whispered Word (1913) *short
  • Polly at the Ranch (1913)*short
  • A Corner in Crooks (1913) *short
  • When the Desert Was Kind *short
  • The Deceivers (1913)*short
  • According to Advice (1913)*short
  • A Matter of Matrimony (1913) *short
  • The Two Brothers (1913)
  • Bedelia Becomes a Lady (1913)*short
  • After the Honeymoon (1913)*short
  • The Power That Rules (1913)*short
  • Cinders (1913)*short
  • The Sea Maiden (1913)*short
  • The Wrong Pair (1913)*short
  • What God Hath Joined Together (1913)*short
  • The Spell (1913)*short
  • The Courage of the Commonplace (1913) *short
  • The Ballyhoo's Story (1913)*short
  • At the Sign of the Lost Angel (1913) *short
  • Big Bob Waits (1913) *short
  • Their Interest in Common (1914) *short
  • Silent Trails (1914) *short
  • Tony, the Greaser (1914) *short
  • The Sea Gull (1914)*short
  • Captain Alvarez(1914)
  • The Little Angel of Canyon Creek (1914)[4]
  • The Sage-Brush Gal (1914)*short
  • The Chalice of Courage(1915)
  • A Child of the North (1915)*short
  • The Lorelei Madonna (1915)*short
  • The Woman's Share (1915)*short
  • Love and Law (1915)
  • Bitter Sweet (1916)*short
  • Bill Peter's Kid (1916)*short
  • God's Country and the Woman (1916)[5]
  • Through the Wall (1916)
  • The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917)*short
  • The American Consul (1917)
  • Whose Wife? (1917)
  • Edged Tools (1917)
  • The Upper Crust (1917)
  • The Rainbow Girl (1917)
  • The Calendar Girl (1917)
  • Betty and the Buccaneers (1917, see video)
  • A Petticoat Pilot (1918)
  • The Shuttle (1918)
  • Unclaimed Goods (1918)
  • Hugon, The Mighty(1918)[6]
  • Destiny (1919)
  • Pretty Smooth (1919)
  • The Sundown Trail (1919)[7]
  • The Girl in the Rain (1920)
  • The Breath of the Gods (1920)[5]
  • In Folly's Trail (1920)
  • The Gilded Dream (1920)
  • Risky Business, co-regia Harry B. Harris (1920)
  • Danger Ahead (1920)[5]
  • The Mad Marriage (1921)
  • All Dolled Up (1921)
  • North of the Rio Grande (1922)
  • West of the Water Tower (1923)
  • Daughters of Today (1924)

Writer

  • 1910 Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • 1912 Bill Wilson's Gal
  • 1913 The Transition
  • 1913 The Ballyhoo's Story
  • 1914 Tony, the Greaser
  • 1914 Only a Sister

References

  1. ↑ Paul C. Spehr; Gunnar Lundquist; Einar Lauritzen (1996). American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920: filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-0255-7.
  2. ↑ Hischack, Thomas (2012). American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations. McFarland. p. 255. ISBN 9780786492794. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Charlie Keil; Shelley Stamp (2004). American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-520-24027-8.
  4. ↑ Larry Langman (1998). American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-313-30657-0.
  5. 1 2 3 Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 28. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
  6. ↑ Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1918. p. 998.
  7. ↑ Leonhard Gmür (2013). Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen. epubli. p. 182. ISBN 978-3-8442-4601-8.
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