The world film encyclopedia (1933)

192 (GER-GRI) Biographies of Film Directors and three serials with Mrs. Vernon Castle. Later he went to Hollywood and undertook several supervising and directing tasks for various concerns. Joined the Paramount studios and has frequentlyworked in conjunction with other directors as well as independently. Directed : The Dummy, co-directed with Robert Milton (Para), Darkened Rooms (Para), Shadow of the Law (Para), Slightly Scarlet (Para), The Mysterious Mr. Parkes (Para-French), Virtuous Sin (Para), The Lawyer's Secret (Para), Silence, co-directed with Max Marcin (Para), Tlie Strange Case of Clara Deane, co-directed with Max Marcin (Para), Furgotten Commandments, co-directed with William Schorr (Para). GERING, Marion. B. Rostoff-On-Don, S. Russia. Began his association with the stage in Russia, and in 1924 visited America, where he produced numerous plays, among them Gas, at Chicago. Finding that New York producers regarded his slight knowledge of English as a disadvantage, he bought the rights of Skidding and with a partner produced it. Now under contract to Paramount. Directed : / Take this Woman (Para), Tweuty-foiir Hours (Para), Ladies of the Big House (Para), Through the Window (Para), The Hours Between (Para), The Devil and the Deep (Para). GERRARD, Gene. Director and Actor. (See Players' Biographies). GOODRICH, William. Real name Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle (See also Players' Biographies.) During his enforced absence from the screen, Roscoe Arbuckle has directed comedies for various concerns. Directed : Keep Laughing (Educ), Moonlight and Cactus (Educ), Anybody's Goat (Educ), Smart Work (Educ), Hollywood Luck (Educ), Bridge Wives (Educ), Mother's Holiday (Educ). It's a Cinch (Educ). GOULDING, Edmund. B. Great Britain, 1 89 1. Ed. England. Made his first stage appearance in England at the age of twelve. He acted, produced, and w"rote plays until the war, when he served in the Arm3^ Broke into films after the war, first of all as a writer. Became a director for M.G.IM. in 1925. His great triumph was his direction of Grand Hotel (M.G.^I., 1932). Also Directed : Sally, Irene, and Mary (M.G.M.), Sun Up (M.G.M.), Paris (M.G.M.), Women Love Diamonds (M.G.M.), Love (M.G.M.), The Trespasser (U.A.), The Devil's Holiday (Para), Paramount on Parade (Para), The Grand Parade (Path^), Reaching for the Moon (Col), Night Angel (Para). GREEN, Alfred E. B. Perris, California. Began screen career 19 12 with the Selig Polyscope Company, and became very early a director of silent pictures. His later achievements are notably the direction of George Arliss in his first three films, \^'as transferred from Holljnvood to Warner Bros. Teddington Studios in March, 1932. Directed : Little Lord Fauntlerov (U.A.), Through the Back Door (U.A.), Sally (F.N.). Irene (F.N.), Ella Cinders (F.N.), Back Home and Broke (Para), The Bachelor Daddy (Para), Disraeli (Warner), Old English (Warner), The Green Goddess (Warner), The Man from Blankley's (Warner), Sweet Kitty Bellairs (Warner), Smart Money (Warner), Men of the Sky (F.N.), The Road to Singapore (Warner), Gentleman for a Day (F.N.), The Rich are Always With Us (F.N.), The Dark Horse (F.N.), It's Tough to be Famous (F.N.), Silver Dollar (Warner), ParacJmte (Warner). GRIFFITH, David Wark. B. La Grange, Kentucky. Ed. privately. Known as one of the very greatest and most brilliant silent picture directors, David Griffith saw first motion pictures first in Chicago in 1907. He thought it rather stupid, but realized there was mone}in it. Alread)^ a stage actor he did not refuse the part oft'ered to him in a one-reel film called The Eagle's Xcst, for which he was paid five dollars a day. After a short film-acting experience he became an assistant director to Biograph, for whom he made his first film, The Adventures of Dollie (190S). He was the first director to make a picture of more than 1,000 feet, an enterprise Avhich led to the break between him and the Biograph Company. Soon afterwards he made a four-reel picture, then of almost incredible length, called Judith of Bethulia. He is now a member of the board of United Artists Film Corporation Limited. His films. The Birth of a Nation (U.A., 1915) and Intolerance (U.A., 1916), will never be forgotten. Also Directed : Broken Blossom < (U.A.), Way Down East (U.A.), Dream Street (U.A.), Heart of the World (Comstock),