J. Stuart Blackton

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1875-01-05

Deathday 1941-08-13 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Sheffield, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], England, UK

Also Known As James Stuart Blackton

J. Stuart Blackton

Biography

James Stuart Blackton was a pioneer Anglo-American filmmaker and can be credited with the first feature-length American production. He founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897 and was among the first filmmakers to use stop-motion and drawn animation.

Known For

Director

1933
The Film Parade

as Director

1927
The American

as Director

1926
Bride of the Storm

as Director

1926
1926
The Gilded Highway

as Director

1926
1925
The Redeeming Sin

as Director

1925
Tides of Passion

as Director

1925
The Happy Warrior

as Director

1924
The Beloved Brute

as Director

1924
The Clean Heart

as Director

1922
1922
A Gipsy Cavalier

as Director

1920
Passers-By

as Director

1919
The Common Cause

as Director

1918
1917
1917
1917
1917
A Spring Idyll

as Director

1917
The Collie Market

as Director

1915
1915
1912
Cardinal Wolsey

as Director

1912
As You Like It

as Director

1911
Little Nemo

as Director

1910
Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Director

1909
Les Misérables

as Director

1909
Oliver Twist

as Director

1909
1909
The Life of Moses

as Director

1909
Benedict Arnold

as Director

1909
King Lear

as Director

1909
1909
1909
1908
The Thieving Hand

as Director

1908
1908
Richard III

as Director

1907
Lightning Sketches

as Director

1907
The Haunted Hotel

as Director

1907
Work Made Easy

as Director

1906
1905
1901
Children Bathing

as Director

1900
1900
1900
Happy Hooligan

as Director

1899
1898
Little Mischief

as Director

1898
1898
1898
1898

Actor

1912
A Vitagraph Romance

as J. Stuart Blackton

1907
Lightning Sketches

as Cartoonist

1903
Hooligan in Jail

as Happy Hooligan

1903
Happy Hooligan Interferes

as Happy Hooligan

1900
The Enchanted Drawing

as Chalk-Talk Artist

1900
1900
Happy Hooligan

as Happy Hooligan

Writer

Editor

Crew

1915