David Miles (c. 1871 – October 28, 1915) was an American actor and director. Born in
Milford, Connecticut
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, he became a Hollywood actor and was head of dramatic production at the
Kinemacolor Company of America until October 1913.
Later, he owned David Miles, Inc., a film making company in
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
. He died of a sudden hemorrhage while walking with his secretary in New York City, aged 44.
Partial filmography
As actor
:''All 1909 shorts, unless otherwise noted.''
* ''
The Helping Hand''
* ''
The Maniac Cook''
* ''
The Honor of Thieves''
* ''
Love Finds a Way''
* ''
A Rural Elopement''
* ''
The Criminal Hypnotist''
* ''
The Welcome Burglar''
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''The Cord of Life''
* ''
The Girls and Daddy''
* ''
The Brahma Diamond''
* ''
Edgar Allen Poe''
* ''
A Wreath in Time''
* ''
Tragic Love''
* ''
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals''
* ''
His Wife's Mother''
* ''
The Politician's Love Story''
* ''
At the Altar''
* ''
The Prussian Spy''
* ''
The Wooden Leg''
* ''
The Roue's Heart''
* ''
The Voice of the Violin''
* ''
The Deception''
* ''
And a Little Child Shall Lead Them''
* ''
A Burglar's Mistake''
* ''
A Drunkard's Reformation''
* ''
Trying to Get Arrested''
* ''
The Road to the Heart''
* ''
Lucky Jim
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''
* ''
Lady Helen's Escapade''
* ''
Two Memories''
* ''
The Cricket on the Hearth
''The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home'' is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin ...
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* ''
The Violin Maker of Cremona''
* ''
The Lonely Villa''
* ''
An Outcast Among Outcasts'' (1912 short)
As director
* ''The Closed Bible'' (1912 short)
* ''How To Live 100 Years'' (1913
Kinemacolor short)
* ''
The Scarlet Letter
''The Scarlet Letter: A Romance'' is a historical novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who concei ...
'' (1913 Kinemacolor short)
References
External links
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1870s births
1915 deaths
20th-century American male actors
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Film directors from Connecticut
Male actors from Los Angeles
People from Milford, Connecticut
Tuberculosis deaths in New York (state)
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