Edwin S. Porter

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Edwin Stanton Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter, 1901 photo
Born	April 21, 1870(1870-04-21) Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Died	April 30, 1941 (aged 71) New York City

Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an early movie pioneer and director.^[1] His most important movies are Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903).

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v t e Silent movies

Movies	The Birth of a Nation • Broken Blossoms • The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari • Faust • The Gold Rush • The Great Train Robbery • The Hunchback of Notre Dame • It • The King of Kings • The Mark of Zorro • Metropolis • Nosferatu • Orphans of the Storm • Our Dancing Daughters • The Phantom of the Opera • Pollyanna • Robin Hood • Safety Last! • The Sea Hawk • The Sheik • Tarzan and the Golden Lion • Tarzan of the Apes • The Thief of Bagdad • A Trip to the Moon • Way Down East • West Point • Wings •

Producers and Directors	Cecil B. DeMille • D. W. Griffith • Fritz Lang • Georges Méliès • Edwin S. Porter • F. W. Murnau • Merian C. Cooper •

Actors and Actresses	Theda Bara • Clara Bow • Lon Chaney, Sr. • Charlie Chaplin • Béla Lugosi • Joan Crawford • Douglas Fairbanks • Dorothy Gish • Lillian Gish • Billy Haines • Buster Keaton • Harold Lloyd • Mary Pickford • Max Schreck • Tyrone Power • Rudolph Valentino • Laurence Olivier • Sylvia Sidney • Harrison Ford • Stan Laurel • Oliver Hardy • Gloria Stuart • Gloria Swanson • Fredric March • Boris Karloff • Spencer Tracy • Lyle Talbot • Lionel Barrymore • John Barrymore • Clark Gable • William Haines • William Powell • Jean Arthur • Ann Sheridan • C. Aubrey Smith • Fay Wray •

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