Chester M. Franklin
Chester Mortimer Franklin , also: Chester M. Franklin , CM Franklin and Chester Franklin , (born September 1, 1890 in San Francisco , California , † March 12, 1954 in Los Angeles , California) was an American film director , silent film actor , film producer and author , who was nominated for an Oscar in 1946 for the short film A Gun in His Hand .
Life
In 1912 Franklin made his first appearances in the two short silent films Hoffmeyer's Legacy and Mabel's Stratagem . This was followed in 1913 appearances in twelve more silent films, of which the war comedy Cohen Saves the Flag was his last film as an actor. From 1915 he switched to directing and made various films, imitations of famous children's literary stories, which were based on the respective models of, for example, Hans and the Beanstalk , Aladin and the Magic Lamp , The Treasure Island or Ali Baba . In the 20th Century Fox studios where he worked, these were quickly classified as "Fox kiddies".
After a few short films, Franklin made the film drama Gretchen the Greenhorn in 1916 with Dorothy Gish in the lead role . In the same year he made the films The Children in the House and Going Straight with the silent film star Norma Talmadge . In both films he worked with his brother Sidney. In the 1922 family drama The Toll of the Sea , Anna May Wong was the leading actress, the first American actress of Chinese origin to become a well-known film star, which in the 1920s and 1930s, when Hollywood was marked by racism , wasn't that easy at all. With the child star Jackie Cooper , Franklin shot the action drama Tough Guy in 1936 , in which, as in the film The Dog of Caribou (1923), the German shepherd Rin Tin Tin played an important role. Franklin ended his film career with the film dog Lassie in 1950/51 by taking on the film Lassie and the Gold Digger as a producer.
In 1946 Franklin and Jerry Bresler received an Oscar nomination in the "Best Short Film" category for the film A Gun in His Hand, starring Tom Trout, Richard Gaines and Anthony Caruso. However, the trophy went to Gordon Hollingshead and the film Star in the Night .
Chester M. Franklin is the brother of the director and film producer Sidney Franklin , with whom he worked often in his early years, and the uncle of Sidney Franklin Jr. Franklin was married to actress Ruth Darling until her death in 1918 and was a second marriage to Mildred needle.
Filmography (selection)
- actor
- 1912: Hoffmeyer's Legacy
- 1912: Mabel's Stratagem
- 1913: Cohen Saves the Flag
- Director unless otherwise noted
- 1915: The Baby (short film)
- 1915: A Ten-Cent Adventure (short film)
- 1915: For Love of Mary Ellen (short film)
- 1915: The Doll-House Mystery (short film)
- 1916: Let Katie Do It
- 1916: Martha's Vindication
- 1916: The Children in the House
- 1916: Going Straight
- 1916: Gretchen the Greenhorn
- 1917: Jack and the Beanstalk (also screenplay)
- 1917: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
- 1918: Treasure Island
- 1918: The Girl with the Champagne Eyes
- 1918: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- 1918: You Never Can Tell
- 1921: All Souls' Eve
- 1921: The Case of Becky
- 1922: Nancy from Nowhere
- 1922: The Toll of the Sea
- 1923: The Hound of Caribou ( Where the North Begins )
- 1924: Behind the Curtain
- 1924: The Silent Accuser (also author)
- 1925: Wild Justice
- 1927: Zero o'clock (also script)
- 1928: Detectives (also screenplay)
- 1930: Olimpia
- 1931: Le père célibataire
- 1932: A Parisian Romance
- 1932: Vanity Fair (producer only)
- 1933: The Iron Master
- 1934: Sequoia - Mistress of the Wilderness ( Sequoia )
- 1936: Tough Guy
- 1939: Gone with the Wind ( Gone with the Wind , the second director)
- 1945: A Gun in His Hand (producer only)
- 1946: The Wilderness Calls ( The Yearling ; second director)
- 1946: Duel in the Sun ( Duel in the Sun ; second director)
- 1951: Lassie and the Gold Diggers ( The Painted Hills ; producer only)
Award
- 1946 : Oscar nomination for A Gun in His Hand
Web links
- Chester M. Franklin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chester M. Franklin at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chester M. Franklin In: IMDb
- ↑ Chester M. Franklin Biography at fandango.com, accessed January 6, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franklin, Chester M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franklin, Chester Mortimer (full name); Franklin, CM; Franklin, Chester |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film director, silent film actor, film producer, and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1954 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |