American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon

Filmography

FILMOGRAPHY 209 Filmography The Birth of a Nation. Epoch Producing Corp. Director: D.W. Griffith. Screenplay: D.W. Griffith and Frank E. Woods, based on the novel The Clansman and the play of the same name by Thomas Dixon. Photography : G.W. Bitzer. With Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mae Marsh, Josephine Crowell, Spottiswoode Aitken, Lillian Gish, Elmer Clifton, and Robert Harron. 12 reels. Premiere screening in Los Angeles on February 8, 1915, and in New York on March 3, 1915. The Fall of a Nation. National Drama Corp. Director and Screenplay: Thomas Dixon. Photography: William C. Thompson, John W. Boyle, Claude H. “Bud” Wales, and Jack R. Young. With Lorraine Huling, Percy Standing, Arthur Shirley, Flora MacDonald, and Paul Willis. 8 reels. Released on September 18, 1916. The Foolish Virgin. Clara Kimball Young Film Corp. Director and Screenplay : Albert Capellani, based on the novel by Thomas Dixon. Photography : Jacques Monteran, Hal Young, and George Peters. With Clara Kimball Young, Conway Tearle, Paul Capellani, Catherine Proctor, and Sheridan Tansey. 7 reels. Released on December 18, 1916. The One Woman. Mastercraft Photo-Play Corp. Director: Reginald Barker. Screenplay: Harry Chandlee and E. Richard Schayer, based on the novel by Thomas Dixon. Photography: Clyde De Vinna. With W. Lawson Butt, Clara Williams, Hershel Mayall, Thurston Hall, Ben Alexander, and Adda Gleason. 6 reels. Released in October 1918. FILMOGRAPHY 210 Bolshevism on Trial. Mayflower Photoplay Corp. Director: Harley Knoles. Screenplay: Harry Chandlee, based on the novel Comrades, by Thomas Dixon. Photography: Philip Hatkin. With Robert Frazer, Leslie Stowe, Howard Truesdell, Jim Savage, Pinna Nesbit, and Valda Valkyrien. 6 reels. Released on April 19, 1919. Wing Toy. Fox Film Corp. Director: Howard M. Mitchell. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on the story by Pearl Doles Bell. Photography: Glen MacWilliams. With Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Edward McWade, Harry S. Northrup, and Betty Schade. 6 reels. Released on January 30, 1921. Where Men Are Men. Vitagraph Company of America. Director: William Duncan. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon. Photography: George Robinson. With William Duncan, Edith Johnson, George Stanley, Tom Wilson, Gertrude Wilson, and Harry Lonsdale. 5 reels. Released on September 1, 1921. Bring Him In. Vitagraph Company of America. Directors: Earle Williams and Robert Ensminger. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on a story by H.H. Van Loan. Photography: Jack MacKenzie. With Earle Williams, Fritzi Ridgeway, Elmer Dewey, Ernest Van Pelt, and Paul Weigel. 5 reels. Released on October 16, 1921. Thelma. Chester Bennett Productions. Director: Chester Bennett. Screenplay : Thomas Dixon, based on the novel by Marie Corelli. Photography: Jack MacKenzie. With Jane Novak, Barbara Tennant, Gordon Mullen, Bert Sprotte, and Vernon Steele. 6 reels. Released on November 26, 1922. The Mark of the Beast. Thomas Dixon Productions. Director and Screenplay : Thomas Dixon. Photography: Harry Fischbeck. With Robert Ellis, Madelyn Clare, Warner Richmond, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Helen Ware. 6 reels. Released on June 24, 1923. The Foolish Virgin. Columbia Pictures. Director: George W. Hill. Screenplay : Lois Zellner, based on the novel by Thomas Dixon. Photography: Norbert Brodin. With Elaine Hammerstein, Robert Frazer, Gladys Brockwell, Phyllis Haver, Lloyd Whitlock, and Irene Hunt. 6 reels. Released on August 15, 1924. FILMOGRAPHY 211 The Painted Lady. Fox Film Corp. Director: Chester Bennett. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on the Saturday Evening Post story by Larry Evans. Photography: Alfred Gosden. With George O’Brien, Dorothy Mackaill, Harry T. Morey, Lucille Hutton, Lucille Ricksen, Margaret McWade, and John Miljan. 7 reels. Released on September 28, 1924. The Great Diamond Mystery. Fox Film Corp. Director: Denison Clift. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on a story by Shannon Fife. With Shirley Mason, Jackie Saunders, Harry von Meter, John Cossar, Philo McCullough, and William Collier Jr. 5 reels. Released on October 5, 1924. The Brass Bowl. Fox Film Corp. Director: Jerome Storm. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on the novel by Louis Joseph Vance. With Edmund Lowe, Claire Adams, Jack Duffy, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Leo White. 6 reels. Released on November 16, 1924. Champion of Lost Causes. Fox Film Corp. Director: Chester Bennett. Screenplay: Thomas Dixon, based on the Flynn’s Magazine story by Max Brand. Photography: Ernest Palmer. With Edmund Lowe, Barbara Bedford, Walter McGrail, Jack McDonald, and Alec B. Francis. 5 reels. Released on January 22, 1925. The Trail Rider. Fox Film Corp. Director: William S. Van Dyke. Screenplay : Thomas Dixon, based on the novel by George Washington Ogden. Photography: Reginald Lyons. With Buck Jones, Nancy Deaver, Lucy Fox, Carl Stockdale, and Jack McDonald. 5 reels...