David Smith (28 October 1872 – 25 April 1930) was an English

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 ...

and

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of the

silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

. He directed more than 70 films between 1915 and 1927. He was born in

Faversham Faversham () is a market town in Kent, England, from Sittingbourne, from London and from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2 road (Great ...

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, and died in

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. He was the older brother of Albert E. Smith, one of the co-founders of the

Vitagraph Studios Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...

Selected filmography

* '' The Hiding of Black Bill'' (1918) * '' The Woman in the Web'' (1918) * '' Baree, Son of Kazan'' (1918) * '' A Gentleman's Agreement'' (1918) * '' The Changing Woman'' (1918) * '' The Dawn of Understanding'' (1918) * '' By the World Forgot'' (1918) * '' The Enchanted Barn'' (1919) * '' The Wishing Ring Man'' (1919) * '' A Yankee Princess'' (1919) * ''

Over the Garden Wall ''Over the Garden Wall'' is an American animated dark fantasy television miniseries created by Patrick McHale for Cartoon Network. The series centers on two half-brothers who travel through a mysterious forest to find their way home, encount ...

'' (1919) * '' Cupid Forecloses'' (1919) * '' A Fighting Colleen'' (1919) * '' The Little Boss'' (1919) * '' Pegeen'' (1920) * '' The Courage of Marge O'Doone'' (1920) * ''

Black Beauty ''Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse'' is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was written from a horse as main character's perspective. She wrote it in the last years of her life, during which s ...

'' (1921) * '' It Can Be Done'' (1921) * '' The Silver Car'' (1921) * '' A Guilty Conscience'' (1921) * '' Flower of the North'' (1921) * '' The Little Minister'' (1922) * '' My Wild Irish Rose'' (1922) * '' The Angel of Crooked Street'' (1922) * '' A Girl's Desire'' (1922) * '' Little Wildcat'' (1922) * '' The Ninety and Nine'' (1922) * ''

The Man from Brodney's ''The Man from Brodney's'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, Alice Calhoun, and Wanda Hawley. It was produced and released by the Vitagraph Company of America. Plot As described in a ...

'' (1923) * '' Masters of Men'' (1923) * '' Pioneer Trails'' (1923) * '' The Midnight Alarm'' (1923) * '' My Man'' (1924) * '' Borrowed Husbands'' (1924) * '' Code of the Wilderness'' (1924) * '' Captain Blood'' (1924) * '' Baree, Son of Kazan'' (1925) * '' Steele of the Royal Mounted'' (1925) * '' Pampered Youth'' (1925) * '' Born to Battle'' (1926) (cinematography) * '' The Heart of the Yukon'' (1927) (cinematography) * '' Born to Battle'' (1927) (cinematography) * '' Gold from Weepah'' (1927) (cinematography) * '' The Avenging Shadow'' (1928) (cinematography)

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* 1872 births 1930 deaths English film directors People from Faversham English expatriates in the United States {{UK-film-director-stub