Stanner E.V. Taylor

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Stanner E.V. Taylor
The Theater of Science vol. 29 - 1914
Born(1877-09-28)September 28, 1877
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
DiedNovember 23, 1948(1948-11-23) (aged 71)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active1908–1929
SpouseMarion Leonard

Stanner E.V. Taylor (September 28, 1877 – November 23, 1948) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1908 and 1929.

Biography[edit]

He was born on September 28, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on November 23, 1948, in Los Angeles, California.[1] He was married to Biograph Company actress Marion Leonard.[2] The worked together in Where the Breakers Roar (1908).[3]

Career[edit]

He wrote Native Americans and western films like Comata, the Sioux (1909),[4] The Kentuckian (1908),[5] A Mohawk's Way (1910),[6] The Mohican's Daughter (1910),[6] The Squaw's Love (1911),[7] and The Yaqui Cur (1913).[8]

He met D. W. Griffith when he first arrived at Biograph Company, when newspaperman Lee Doc Dougherty headed the story department and hired Griffith as chief scenarist.[9] He worked under the direction of Griffith in The Mended Lute (1909),[10] The Impalement (1910),[11] The Purgation (1910),[12] A Flash of Light (1910),[13] The Great Love (1918), The Greatest Thing in Life (1918), The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919), Scarlet Days (1919), The Greatest Question (1919) and The Idol Dancer (1920).[14] They worked together in the screenplay for The Hun Within (1918).[15]

He worked with Mack Sennett in Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908),[16] In the Season of Buds (1910), A Midnight Cupid (1910) and An Arcadian Maid (1910).[17]

He directed an unknown film called The Terror, released on July 13, 1922.[18]

Selected filmography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland Publishing. p. 310. ISBN 9780786410590.
  2. ^ Mayer, David (2009). Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre. University of Iowa Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781587298400.
  3. ^ Brown, Kelly R. (September 18, 2014). Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star. McFarland Publishing. p. 161. ISBN 9781476613178.
  4. ^ Hilger 2015, p. 137.
  5. ^ Hilger 2015, p. 203.
  6. ^ a b Hilger 2015, p. 231.
  7. ^ Hilger 2015, p. 298.
  8. ^ Hilger 2015, p. 342.
  9. ^ Stokes, Melvyn (January 15, 2008). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780199887514.
  10. ^ Prats, A. J.; Jose, Amando (2002). Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western. Cornell University Press. p. 293. ISBN 9780801487545.
  11. ^ Graham 1985, p. 81.
  12. ^ Graham 1985, p. 84.
  13. ^ Graham 1985, p. 85.
  14. ^ Lang, Robert; Griffith, David Wark (1994). Griffith, Dennison W. (ed.). The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director. Rutgers University Press. p. 303. ISBN 9780813520278.
  15. ^ Usai, Paolo Cherchi; Bowser, Eileen (2007). The Griffith project: Selected writings of D. W. Griffith. Indexes and corrections to volumes 1-10. British Film Institute. p. 266. ISBN 9781844572328.
  16. ^ Walker 2013, p. 251.
  17. ^ Walker 2013, p. 257.
  18. ^ Library of Congress (1923). Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. Part 1, group 2. Vol. 19. U.S. Government Printing Office.

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