Oscar Augustus Constantine Lund (May 21, 1885 – May 2, 1963) was a Swedish-born

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actor, screenwriter and director of the

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and Swedish motion picture industry.

Early life

Oscar A. C. Lund was born May 21, 1885, in

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, Sweden, the son of Swedish actor and theater director Carl Ludvig Lund (1858–1893). He emigrated in 1900 to the United States.

Career

Lund joined the burgeoning

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industry, directing his first film in 1912 titled ''The Wager''. The following year, Lund filmed ''The Great Unknown'' in Canada. Lund also wrote the screenplay as well as acted in many of the films he directed. In 1917 he wrote ''Mother Love and the Law'' based on a real life child-custody case in

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Between 1912 and 1924, Lund directed more than 60 films in the United States. These included the first feature film made by the

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–based U.S. division of the French Éclair Film Company in 1914 titled ''Into the Wilderness''. He was a director and writer for ''Together'' (1918), ''The Nature Girl'' (1918) and ''Peg of the Pirates'' (1918). He frequently worked with director and screenwriter

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(1879–1956) and with the British actress

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(1892–1982), directing her in more than half a dozen films. Lund was a member of the New York brank of the Motion Picture Directors Association and served as Outer Guard in 1922. Lund returned to Sweden in 1931, and to filmmaking, directing his first and only

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, a Swedish language film titled ''Kärlek och dynamit'' (1933). Lund died May 2, 1963.

Selected filmography

*'' Lady Babbie'' (1913) *''The Sons of a Soldier'' (1913) *''

Her New York ''Her New York'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by O. A. C. Lund and Eugene Moore and starring Gladys Hulette, William Parke Jr. and Riley Chamberlin.Connelly p.361 Cast * Gladys Hulette as Phoebe Lester * William Parke Jr. as ...

'' (1917) *'' For Woman's Favor'' (1924) * ''Kärlek och dynamit (

Love and Dynamite ''Love and Dynamite'' (Swedish: ''Kärlek och dynamit'') is a 1933 Swedish drama film directed and co-written by O.A.C. Lund and starring Valdemar Dalquist, Birgit Sergelius and Isa Quensel. It is now considered to be a lost film. Synopsis An e ...

)'' (1933)

References

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