David Kirkland (November 26, 1878 – October 27, 1964) was an American
actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
and
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
of the
silent and early
sound eras.
He was cast as Dr. Dopem in the
Snakeville comedy series and directed several
Keystone Studios comedy films. He was a
pallbearer at
Virginia Rappe's funeral. Kirkland's 1920 film ''The Perfect Woman'' was preserved by the
Academy Film Archive in 2017.
Partial filmography
* ''
The Crippled Hand'' (1916)
* ''
A Temperamental Wife'' (1919)
* ''
A Virtuous Vamp'' (1919)
* ''
In Search of a Sinner'' (1920)
* ''
The Love Expert'' (1920)
* ''
Nothing But the Truth'' (1920)
* ''
The Perfect Woman'' (1920)
* ''
The Rowdy'' (1921)
* ''
The Ladder Jinx'' (1922)
* ''
The Veiled Woman'' (1922)
* ''
The Barefoot Boy'' (1923)
* ''
For Another Woman'' (1924)
* ''
The Tomboy'' (1924)
* ''
Who Cares Who Cares or Who Cares? may refer to:
* Who Cares? (Gershwin song), "Who Cares?" (George and Ira Gershwin song) (1931)
* Who Cares? (Gnarls Barkley song), "Who Cares?" (Gnarls Barkley song) (2006)
* Who Cares (Paul McCartney song), "Who Cares" (Paul ...
'' (1925)
* ''
All Around Frying Pan'' (1925)
* ''
The Tough Guy'' (1926)
* ''
The Two-Gun Man'' (1926)
* ''
A Regular Scout'' (1926)
* ''
Hands Across the Border'' (1926)
* ''
The Gingham Girl'' (1927)
* ''
Yours to Command'' (1927)
* ''
Uneasy Payments'' (1927)
* ''
The Candy Kid'' (1928)
* ''
Riders of the Cactus'' (1931)
* ''
Flying Lariats
''Flying Lariats'' is a 1931 American pre-Code
Western (genre), Western film directed by Alan James and David Kirkland and starring Hal Taliaferro, Buzz Barton and Fred Church (actor), Fred Church.Pitts, p. 69.
Summary
Wally Dunbar is tryin ...
'' (1931)
* ''
So This Is Arizona'' (1931)
References
Bibliography
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
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1878 births
1964 deaths
American male film actors
Film directors from San Francisco
People from San Francisco
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