Joseph Edward Victor Fairfield Daveran Singleton (1 March 1879 – 24 October 1946) was an actor 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 ...
.
An Australian,
[ he appeared in 74 films between 1913 and 1925. He was born in ]Melbourne
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.
Selected filmography
* '' Shon the Piper'' (1913)
* '' The Squaw Man'' (1914)
* ''Brewster's Millions
''Brewster's Millions'' is a comedic novel written by George Barr McCutcheon in 1902, originally under the pseudonym of Richard Greaves.
The plot concerns a young man whose grandfather leaves him $1 million in a will, but a competing will from ...
'' (1914)
* ''Infatuation
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'' (1915)
* '' Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings'' (1915)
* '' Jordan Is a Hard Road'' (1915)
* '' Daphne and the Pirate'' (1916)
* '' The Good Bad-Man'' (1916)
* '' Betsy's Burglar'' (1917)
* ''Wild and Woolly Wild and Woolly may refer to:
* Wild and Woolly (1917 film), an American silent Western comedy film
* Wild and Woolly (1932 film), a short animated film
* Wild and Woolly (1937 film), an American Western film
* Wild and Wooly, a 1978 comedy/west ...
'' (1917) (uncredited)
* '' A Girl of the Timber Claims'' (1917)
* '' Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp'' (1917)
* '' Desert Law'' (1918)
* '' The Lady of the Dugout'' (1918)
* '' Inside the Lines'' (1918)
* '' The Enchanted Barn'' (1919)
* '' The Midnight Man'' (1919)
* '' The Mayor of Filbert'' (1919)
* ''Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure a ...
'' (1920)
* ''The Toll Gate
''The Toll Gate'' is a 1920 American silent Western film directed by Lambert Hillyer, written by Lambert Hillyer and William S. Hart, and starring William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson, and Richard Headrick. It ...
'' (1920)
* ''The Great Redeemer
''The Great Redeemer'' is a 1920 American silent Western film co-directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown and starring House Peters, Marjorie Daw, Jack McDonald, and Joseph Singleton.
Plot
A notorious outlaw in the old west named Dan ...
'' (1920)
* ''Opened Shutters
''Opened Shutters'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by William Worthington and starring Edith Roberts, Josef Swickard and Joseph Singleton.Connelly p.392 It is a remake of the 1914 film '' The Opened Shutters'', based on a novel ...
'' (1921)
* ''The Fighting Lover
''The Fighting Lover'' is a 1921 American silent mystery comedy film directed by Fred LeRoy Granville and starring Frank Mayo, Elinor Hancock and Gertrude Olmstead.Munden p.242
Plot
Cast
* Frank Mayo as Andrew Forsdale
* Elinor Hancock ...
'' (1921)
* ''Cameron of the Royal Mounted
''Cameron of the Royal Mounted'' is a 1921 Canadian silent western film directed by Henry MacRae and starring Gaston Glass, Irving Cummings and Vivienne Osborne.Langman p.531 Part of the tradition of Northerns, it is based on the story ''Cor ...
'' (1921)
* '' The Bait'' (1921)
* '' Skin Deep'' (1922)
* ''Secrets of the Night
''Secrets of the Night'' is a 1924 American silent film directed by Herbert Blaché and made at Universal Pictures. The black-and-white " murder mystery-melodrama comedy" stars James Kirkwood Sr., Madge Bellamy, and ZaSu Pitts. It was adapted ...
'' (1924)
References
External links
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1879 births
1946 deaths
Australian male silent film actors
Male actors from Melbourne
20th-century Australian male actors
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