Gardner James (1903–1953) was an American
film 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. ...
.
In 1925 James traveled to Los Angeles as a coal-hand on a vessel. In 1926 he signed a five-year contract with Inspiration Pictures.
After some stage experience with
George Arliss, he entered
silent films
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 ...
in 1922. While he once played a
lead role, he was often billed third in the cast.
He was married to the actress and writer
Marian Constance Blackton,
daughter of the founder of
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 ...
, but this rapidly ended in divorce.
Filmography
* ''
Beyond the Rainbow'' (1922)
* ''
The Love Bandit'' (1924)
* ''
Unrestrained Youth'' (1925)
* ''
Silent Sanderson'' (1925)
* ''
The Happy Warrior'' (1925)
* ''
The Night Patrol'' (1926)
* ''
Hell-Bent for Heaven'' (1926)
* ''
The Passionate Quest'' (1926)
* ''
The Amateur Gentleman'' (1926)
* ''
The Flaming Forest'' (1926)
* ''
The Gilded Highway'' (1926)
* ''
Ladies at Ease'' (1927)
* ''
Eager Lips'' (1927)
* ''
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come'' (1928)
* ''
The Big Killing'' (1928)
* ''
The Mating Call'' (1928)
* ''
The Wreck of the Singapore'' (1928)
* ''
The Studio Murder Mystery'' (1929)
* ''
The Flying Fleet
''The Flying Fleet'' is a 1929 synchronized sound romantic drama film directed by George Hill (director), George W. Hill and starring Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, and Anita Page. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchr ...
'' (1929)
* ''
The Dawn Patrol'' (1930)
* ''
The Great Meadow'' (1931)
* ''
Bright Eyes'' (1934)
* ''
Captain Blood'' (1935)
* ''
Dante's Inferno
''Inferno'' (; Italian for ' Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem '' The Divine Comedy'', followed by and . The ''Inferno'' describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himsel ...
(1935)
* ''
The White Angel'' (1936)
* ''
Crash Donovan'' (1936)
* ''
Adventures of Red Ryder'' (1940)
References
Bibliography
* Katchmer, George A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses''. McFarland, 2015.
External links
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American male film actors
American male stage actors
1903 births
1953 deaths
Male actors from New York City
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