Harold M. Shaw

Harold Marvin Shaw (born November 3, 1877 in Brownsville , Tennessee , † January 30, 1926 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American actor , film director and screenwriter of the silent film era.

Life

Harold M. Shaw began his career at the age of 16 in the San Francisco theater . From 1909 he also appeared in numerous silent films by the Edison Manufacturing Company under directors such as J. Searle Dawley , Edwin S. Porter , Bannister Merwin , Oscar Apfel , Ashley Miller and Charles Brabin .

From 1912 onwards he worked as a director for the Edison Manufacturing Company, including The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912). He then worked briefly for the Independent Moving Pictures Company . In the middle of 1913 he moved with George Loane Tucker to the London Film Company in England , where over 30 films were made under his direction. His most successful productions from this creative phase include The House of Temperley (1913), a film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel Rodney Stone , and Trilby (1914), an adaptation of the novel of the same name by George du Maurier . The recruiting film You (1916) was made during the First World War .

After the London Film Company got into financial difficulties, Shaw signed a contract with the South African entrepreneur IW Schlesinger for his studio African Film Productions in 1916 . The first project from this collaboration was the historical film De Voortrekkers (1916), which told the story of the Great Trek of the Boers and the Battle of the Blood River . It is considered the oldest surviving feature film from South African production.

The next film project was initially planned to be Symbol of Sacrifice , but after a dispute between Shaw and Schlesinger, Dick Cruikshanks took over the direction of the film. Shaw made the films The Rose of Rhodesia (1918) and Thoroughbreds All (1919) in South Africa before returning to Great Britain.

In 1920 he shot the melodrama Land of Mystery in the Soviet Union , which was very loosely based on Lenin's life . Over the next few years, adaptations of works by the writer HG Wells were made with Kipps (1921) and The Wheels of Chance (1922) , among others .

Shaw moved to the United States in 1922, where he made a few films for Metro Pictures Corporation before retiring from filmmaking. On January 30, 1926, he died in a traffic accident in Los Angeles.

Edna Flugrath , whom he had met in 1911 and with whom he was married from 1916 until his death, appeared in many of his films .

Few of his films survived.

Filmography (selection)

actor

• 1909: Lochinvar (short film)
• 1909: A Rose of the Tenderloin (short film)
• 1910: Michael Strogoff (short film)
• 1910: The Attack on the Mill (short film)
• 1911: The Child and the Tramp (short film)
• 1911: The Niece and the Chorus Lady (short film)
• 1911: Bob and Rowdy (short film)
• 1911: Sir George and the Heiress (short film)
• 1911: The Modern Dianas (short film)
• 1911: The Three Musketeers: Part 1 (short film)
• 1911: The Three Musketeers: Part 2 (short film)
• 1911: Mary's Masquerade (short film)
• 1911: The Death of Nathan Hale (short film)
• 1911: Foul Play (short film)
• 1911: How Mrs. Murray Saved the American Army (short film)
• 1911: Her Wedding Ring (short film)
• 1911: A Conspiracy Against the King (short film)
• 1911: The Kid from the Klondike (short film)
• 1911: The Reform Candidate (short film)
• 1911: A Modern Cinderella (short film)
• 1911: The Black Arrow (short film)
• 1911: Home (short film)
• 1911: The Lure of the City (short film)
• 1911: The Awakening of John Bond (short film)
• 1911: Santa Claus and the Clubman (short film)
• 1912: Freezing Auntie (short film)
• 1912: Thirty Days at Hard Labor (short film)
• 1912: A Question of Seconds (short film)
• 1912: The Bachelor's Waterloo (short film)
• 1912: The Jewels (short film)
• 1912: Mother and Daughters (short film)
• 1912: The Corsican Brothers (short film)
• 1912: The Nurse (short film)
• 1912: Tony's Oath of Vengeance (short film)
• 1912: The Heir Apparent (short film)
• 1912: The Patent Housekeeper (short film)
• 1912: For the Commonwealth (short film)
• 1912: Her Face (short film)
• 1912: How Washington Crossed the Delaware (short film)
• 1912: The Mine on the Yukon (Short)
• 1912: The Boss of Lumber Camp Number Four (Short)
• 1912: The Guilty Party (short film)
• 1912: The Bank President's Son (short film)
• 1912: The Convict's Parole (short film)
• 1912: A Romance of the Ice Fields (short film)
• 1912: Jim's Wife (short film)
• 1912: The Man Who Made Good (short film)
• 1912: Martin Chuzzlewit (short film)
• 1912: A Man in the Making (short film)
• 1912: Master and Pupil (short film)
• 1912: What Happened to Mary (short film)
• 1912: The Affair at Raynor's (short film)
• 1913: The Wop (short film)
• 1913: Who Will Marry Mary?
• 1913: The Stolen Love (short film)
• 1914: The Call of the Drum (short film)

Director

• 1912: The Governor (short film)
• 1912: Hearts and Diamonds (short film)
• 1912: The Grandfather (short film)
• 1912: Mary in Stage Land (short film)
• 1912: The Girl from the Country (short film)
• 1912: A Fresh Air Romance (short film)
• 1912: At the Masquerade Ball (short film)
• 1912: The Land Beyond the Sunset (short film)
• 1912: The New Member of the Life Saving Crew (short film)
• 1912: Romance of the Rails (short film)
• 1912: The Old Reporter (short film)
• 1912: The Third Thanksgiving (short film)
• 1912: On Donovan's Division (short film)
• 1912: A Christmas Accident (short film)
• 1912: The Crime of Carelessness (short film)
• 1912: For Her (short film)
• 1913: The New Day's Dawn (short film)
• 1913: At Bear Track Gulch (short film)
• 1913: A Perilous Cargo (short film)
• 1913: The Phantom Ship (short film)
• 1913: The Cub (short film)
• 1913: The Old Melody (short film)
• 1913: The House of Temperley
• 1914: The Bosun's Mate (short film)
• 1914: Lawyer Quince (short film)
• 1914: Her Children (short film)
• 1914: Beauty and the Barge (short film)
• 1914: The Ring and the Rajah (short film)
• 1914: Duty (short film)
• 1914: Branscombe's Pal (short film)
• 1914: Clancarty (short film)
• 1914: Child o 'My Heart (short film)
• 1914: England's Menace (short film)
• 1914: trilby
• 1914: Bootle's Baby
• 1914: For the Empire (short film)
• 1914: Two Little Ambitions (short film)
• 1914: The King's Minister (short film)
• 1914: Two Little Britons (short film)
• 1914: VC (short film)
• 1914: A Christmas Carol (short film)
• 1914: The Two Columbines (short film)
• 1914: Lil o 'London (short film)
• 1914: The Incomparable Bellairs
• 1914: Liberty Hall
• 1915: Brother Officers
• 1915: The Ashes of Revenge
• 1915: A Garrett in Bohemia (short film)
• 1915: The Heart of a Child
• 1915: The Derby Winner
• 1915: The Third Generation
• 1915: Mr. Lyndon at Liberty
• 1915: The Heart of Sister Ann
• 1915: The Firm of Girdlestone
• 1916: You (short film)
• 1916: Me and Me Moke
• 1916: The Last Challenge (short film)
• 1916: De Voortrekkers
• 1916: The Two Roads
• 1918: The Rose of Rhodesia
• 1919: Thoroughbreds All
• 1920: True Tilda
• 1920: The Pursuit of Pamela
• 1920: London Pride
• 1920: The Land of Mystery
• 1921: Kipps
• 1921: The Woman of His Dream
• 1921: A Dear Fool
• 1921: General John Regan
• 1922 False Evidence
• 1922: The Wheels of Chance
• 1922: Love and a Whirlwind
• 1923: Rouged Lips
• 1923: Held to Answer
• 1924: A Fool's Awakening

script

• 1916: Gloria
• 1918: The Rose of Rhodesia
• 1919: Thoroughbreds All

Web links

Commons : Harold M. Shaw  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Harold M. Shaw in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Harold Marvin Shaw . In: spla.pro, accessed on May 3, 2020.
2. ^ ^{A b c d} Neil Parsons: Investigating the Origins of The Rose of Rhodesia, Part I: African Film Productions . In: screeningthepast.com from January 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Harold M. Shaw . In: iffr.com, accessed on May 1, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Voortrekkers . In: africa-in-motion.org.uk, accessed on May 3, 2020.