Edmund Mortimer (born Edmund Mortimer Olson;
August 21, 1874 – May 21, 1944) was an American actor and
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, pr ...
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Early years
Mortimer's family was "prominent socially in Brooklyn and Washington".
His father (also named Edmund Mortimer Olson) was a captain in the U. S. Navy. As a boy, Mortimer sang in church choirs and participated in other musical activities in Brooklyn. His military service included membership; in the Second Naval Battalion and in Company C, 23rd Regiment.
Career
Mortimer began acting on stage in 1904 and went on to perform with several theatrical companies.
He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1945. He also directed 23 films between 1918 and 1928, including ''The Arizona Romeo'' (1925).
Selected filmography
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Neptune's Daughter'' (1914)
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The Road Through the Dark
''The Road Through the Dark'' is a 1918 American silent war drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Clara Kimball Young, Jack Holt and Elinor Fair.Langman p.268 It was made as an anti-German propaganda piece during World War I.
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'' (1918)
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The Savage Woman'' (1918)
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The Misfit Wife
''The Misfit Wife'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Alice Lake, Forrest Stanley and William Steele.Goble p.220 It is based on the 1916 play ''The Outsider'' by Julie Herne.
Cast
* Alice Lake as ...
'' (1920)
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Alias Jimmy Valentine'' (1920, director)
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Railroaded'' (1923)
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The Wolf Man'' (1924)
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That French Lady
''That French Lady'' is a lost 1924 silent film romance drama directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Shirley Mason. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation.
It was based on a play by William Hurlbut, ''The Strange Woman'' ...
'' (1924)
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A Man's Mate'' (1924, director)
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The Desert Outlaw
''The Desert Outlaw'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edmund Mortimer and starring Evelyn Brent. Prints of the film survive in the Czech Film Archive.
Cast
* Buck Jones as Sam Langdon
* Evelyn Brent as May Halloway
* DeWit ...
'' (1924, director)
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Scandal Proof
''Scandal Proof'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Mortimer and written by Charles Kenyon. The film stars Shirley Mason, John Roche, Freeman Wood, Hazel Howell, Frances Raymond, and Ruth King. The film was released ...
'' (1925)
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The Prairie Pirate
''The Prairie Pirate'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Edmund Mortimer and featuring Harry Carey.
Plot
As described in a film magazine reviews, Brian Delaney, returning one evening from herding the cattle, finds his siste ...
'' (1925)
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The Man from Red Gulch
''The Man from Red Gulch'' is a 1925 American silent Western film featuring Harry Carey. Copies of the film are held at Cineteca Italiana, Milan and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Cast
* Harry Carey as Sandy
* Harriet Hammond as Bets ...
'' (1925)
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Satan Town'' (1926)
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A Woman's Way'' (1928, director)
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Kiki'' (1931)
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Freshman Love
''Freshman Love'' is a 1936 sound film based on George Ade's oft filmed 1904 play '' The College Widow'', adaptations of which were filmed twice previously, in 1915 and 1927, and parodied by the Marx Brothers in their 1932 film '' Horse Feathers' ...
'' (1936)
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52nd Street
52nd Street is a -long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City. A short section of it was known as the city's center of jazz performance from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Jazz center
Following the repeal of ...
'' (1937)
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At The Circus
''At the Circus'' is a 1939 comedy film starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx and Chico Marx) released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in which they help save a circus from bankruptcy. The film contains Groucho Marx's classic rendition of ...
'' (1939)
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A Chump at Oxford
''A Chump at Oxford'' is a Hal Roach comedy film produced in 1939 and released in 1940 by United Artists. It was directed by Alfred J. Goulding and was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Roach studio. The title echoes the film ''A ...
'' (1940)
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Too Many Blondes
''Too Many Blondes'' is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Rudy Vallee, Helen Parrish and Lon Chaney Jr.
Creighton Tull Chaney (February10, 1906 – July12, 1973), known by his stage name Lon ...
'' (1941)
References
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1874 births
1944 deaths
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
American film directors
Male actors from New York (state)
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