Hector Dion
Hector Dion ( November 30, 1880 or 1881 in Boston , Massachusetts , United States - 1942 or 1943 in Massachusetts) was an American theater and silent film actor , director, and screenwriter .
Life
After a stage career, his film career began around 1907 with Vitagraph. In 1912 he worked for American Biograph . In 1914 he stayed for a while in England for Turner Films , for which he was director and actor. He also wrote the scripts for three of these films, namely The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle, Polly's Progress and Shopgirls: or, The Great Question . In 1915 and 1916 he appeared in a number of films for Thanhouser; In 1918 he worked for Mutual in Los Angeles.
Filmography
- 1907: The Mill Girl
- 1907: The Gipsy's Warning
- 1908: Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers
- 1908: Othello
- 1908: Romeo and Juliet (Vitagraph, directed by J. Stuart Blackton)
- 1910: Francesca da Rimini (as Hector Dean )
- 1912: Just Like a Woman
- 1912: A Lodging for the Night
- 1912: A Man's Duty
- 1912: Love Me, Love My Dog
- 1912: The True Love
- 1912: The Wood Nymph
- 1912: Phillip Steele
- 1912: A Man Among Men
- 1912: One Against One
- 1912: North of Fifty-Three
- 1912: For Love of Her
- 1912: The Geranium
- 1912: Brothers Under the Skin
- 1912: Guy Mannering
- 1912: The Peddler's Find
- 1912: Father
- 1912: Joe's Reward
- 1913: A Father's Lesson
- 1913: Drink's Lure
- 1913: The Wrong Bottle
- 1913: The Beaten Path
- 1913: The Crook and the Girl
- 1913: A Tender-Hearted Crook
- 1913: The Stopped Clock
- 1913: No Place for Father
- 1913: His inspiration
- 1914: Forgiven; Or, The Jack of Diamonds
- 1914: The Doctor's Testimony
- 1914: The $ 5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot
- 1914: The Shepherd Lassie of Argyle
- 1914: Polly's Progress
- 1914: Shopgirls: or, The Great Question
- 1915: The Crogmere Ruby (as "Sherlock Holmes", short film, Thanhouser Film Corporation, director: Ernest C. Warde)
- 1915: The Crimson Saber (as "Sherlock Holmes", short film, Thanhouser, director: Ernest C. Warde)
- 1915: Their Last Performance
- 1916: Silas Marner
- 1916: The Fifth Ace
- 1916: The Girl from Chicago
- 1916: When She Played Broadway
- 1916: The Fugitive
- 1916: Saint, Devil and Woman
- 1916: The Return of Draw Egan
- 1916: King Lear / A Pathé Gold Rooster play (short film: 36 min., Thanhouser, director: Ernest Warde)
- 1917: Fighting Mad
- 1918: The Wolf and His Mate
- 1918: Painted Lips
- 1918: One More American
- 1919: Ravished Armenia
- 1920: The Lost City
- 1920: The Jungle Princess
- 1921: Judge Her Not
- 1923: The Courtship of Myles Standish
Web links
- Hector Dion on thannhauser.org. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
- Hector Dion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hector Dion in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hector Dion / Hector Dean at goldenmovie.ru, accessed on September 9, 2013.
- ^ IMDB: Biography for Hector Dion , accessed September 9, 2013.
- ^ Thanhouser Company: Volume 3: Biographies - Dion, Hector, accessed September 9, 2013.
- ↑ Hector Dion from ancestry.com. Retrieved August 27, 2015
- ^ IMDB: Filmography - Writer, accessed September 9, 2013.
- ↑ Motion Picture Collection ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 406 kB, p. 72, English) at cdn.calisphere.org, accessed on September 9, 2013.
- ↑ a b Hector Dion (English) at listal.com, accessed on September 9, 2013. Os policiais no cinema (5) Arthur Conan Doyle (Portuguese) blogspot.de, accessed on September 9, 2013.
- ^ The Thanhouser collection. DVD Volumes 7, 8 & 9 (1910 to 1917) at worldcat.org, accessed September 9, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dion, Hector |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theater and silent film actor, director, and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1880 or 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 or 1943 |
| Place of death | Massachusetts |