Edward Sedgwick

Directing

Edward Sedgwick

Born November 7, 1891 · Galveston, Texas, USA

Died May 7, 1953 · aged 61

Edward Sedgwick was an American director, actor, writer, and producer whose career spanned the silent era through early television. Born in Galveston, Texas, to stage-performer parents, he began in vaudeville and entered films as a comic actor in 1915, often playing energetic baseball characters. He moved into directing in 1921, initially making serials and Westerns—including films with Tom Mix a…

Known For

The CameramanThe Cameraman · 1928
The Cameraman
7.81928
MovieComedyRomance
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
So You Won't Talk?So You Won't Talk? · 1940
So You Won't Talk?
5.81940
MovieComedyCrime
A shy book reviewer is confused with a notorious gangster who has just been release from prison.
Beware Spooks!Beware Spooks! · 1939
Beware Spooks!
8.51939
MovieComedy
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
Bride 13Bride 13 · 1920
Bride 13
10.01920
MovieActionThriller
A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom.
CheckersCheckers · 1919
Checkers
9.01919
MovieAdventureComedy
Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.
Tin HatsTin Hats · 1926
Tin Hats
7.01926
MovieComedy
Three United States soldiers are lost in the Rhineland on Armistice Day and accepted as conquering overlords by a village... except for Lady Bountiful.
Single HandedSingle Handed · 1923
Single Handed
10.01923
MovieComedyCrime
Hector MacKnight, known to the townspeople as "Goofy" and an irritatingly terrible fiddler, is innocently drawn into a rigged poker game. A general fight brings the sheriff, and a chase ensues. Before the confusion is ended and Hector cleared, he meets Ruth Randolph and becomes involved in a circus while trying to recover the other half of her treasure map.
The VarmintThe Varmint · 1917
The Varmint
1917
MovieComedy
John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding school and sent to Lawrenceville Academy. On the stage on the way to the school he meets a silent man whom Dink sizes up for a salesman and he proceeds to wax eloquent on the subject of his past career and the reason he was expelled from his previous school.

Filmography

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A Lucky LeapA Lucky Leap · 1916
A Lucky Leap
1916
MovieComedy
Fatty leaves his country home to go to the city. Bess, who lives in the city with her mother and her detective father, takes a novel and goes to the park to read, and strikes up a flirtation with Fatty. The father goes to his office, while the mother purchases a watch as a birthday present for him, but she is seen by a crook, who follows her. When she stops in the park to rest he gets the watch. On his way out of the park the crook passes Fatty and sells him the stolen watch. The crook then tries to flirt with Bess, but is thrown out by Fatty, who has fallen in love at first sight and is invited to Bess's home, after he has made her a present of the watch. When Bess and Fatty enter the house the mother is out in the hall telephoning her husband about the loss, and he starts home immediately. Bess leaves Fatty while she shows her mother the watch he gave her. The mother recognizes the watch and starts for Fatty, being joined later by her husband.

Fatty