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 Cameraman · 1928The Cameraman
★ 7.81928
MovieComedyRomance
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
So You Won't Talk? · 1940So 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! · 1939Beware Spooks!
★ 8.51939
MovieComedy
A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.
Bride 13 · 1920Bride 13
★ 10.01920
MovieActionThriller
A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom.
Checkers · 1919Checkers
★ 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 Hats · 1926Tin 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 Handed · 1923Single 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 Varmint · 1917The 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.
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