From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Danish film director. He created a new directorial style based on extensive close-ups and the use of authentic settings.
U.S. film director and producer. He introduced several cinematic techniques, including the flashback and the fade-out, in his masterpiece The Birth of a Nation (1915).
Film director; his films include Dr Mabuse, der Spieler (1922, Dr Mabuse, the Gambler), the first of three Mabuse films, and the futuristic Metropolis (1926), with its nightmare vision of urban living.
Lillian Gish, called the “First Lady of the Silent Screen,” was perhaps the finest female actor of the silent era. Her career spanned seventy-five years and over 100 productions.
After the novelty factor of the Lumière brothers' single-shot ‘moving pictures’ began to wear thin, cinema quickly developed a sophisticated language of its own as filmmakers experimented with camera tricks, editing theories and narrative methods.
From World of Criminal Justice, Gale After several years of singing on vaudeville, Arbuckle met Mack Sennett, owner of the Keystone Film Company, in 1912. He became a star as a member of Sennett’s frantic, slapstick Keystone Kops.
Film actor, producer, screenwriter, director, and composer, born in London, UK. Regarded as one of the few individuals to be a true genius of motion pictures, he was knighted in 1975.
Film comic actor, screenwriter, and producer. By 1923 he was exercising complete artistic control over his films and he had established his persona as a deadpan and agile Everyman undaunted by the most extreme situations.