silent film
A silent film is a film with no 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, when ...
director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''Di ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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Resurrection
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which ...
''. He began working in film in 1907, directing the one-reel film ''The Hypnotist's Revenge'' for
American Mutoscope & Biograph
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to Filmmaking, film production and ...
.
Golden worked for Biograph until Jeremiah Kennedy's arrival in 1907. He was then the chief director at Triumph Film Corporation. In 1910, he worked for Pat Powers' production company, directing a few films with Pearl White. Specializing in adventure films and westerns, he moved on to work for Selig Polyscope. In 1911 alone, he made thirty films. In his career as a director, which lasted thirteen years to 1920, he directed 75 films. From 1911 to 1924, he wrote the screenplay for at least twelve films, most of which he also directed. In 1915, he produced ''Divorced'', directed by Edward Warren and shot in New York. Golden also worked at Crystal Studios with Ludwig G. B. Erb. He died in
Los Angeles
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.
Filmography
This is a partial filmography. Golden was the director unless stated otherwise.
* ''The Hypnotist's Revenge'' (1907)
* ''The Tired Tailor's Dream'' (1907)
* ''Terrible Ted'' (1907)
* ''His Mother's Letter'' (1910)
* ''The Girl from Arizona'' (1910)
* ''The Horse Shoer's Girl'' (1910)
* ''The Burlesque Queen'' (1910)
* ''The Matinee Idol'' (1910)
* ''The Music Teacher'' (1910)
* '' A Woman's Wit'' (1910)
* ''The New Magdalen'' (1910)
* '' The Woman Hater'' (1910)
* ''When the World Sleeps'' (1910)
* ''Helping Him Out'' (1911)
* ''The Angel of the Slums'' (1911)
* ''A Novel Experiment'' (1911)
* ''Montana Anna'' (1911)
* ''The Visiting Nurse'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* ''The Mission Worker'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* ''The New Editor'' (1911)
* ''His Birthday'' (1911)
* ''Two Lives'' (1911)
* ''The Warrant'' (1911)
* ''The Tale of a Soldier's Ring'' (1911)
* ''A Fair Exchange'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* ''A Tennessee Love Story'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* ''A Prisoner of the Mohicans'' (1911)
* ''For Massa's Sake'' (1911)
* ''Told in Colorado'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* '' Why the Sheriff Is a Bachelor'' (1911), screenwriter and co-directed with Tom Mix
* ''Love Molds Labor'' (1911)
* ''Western Hearts'' (1911), director and screenwriter
* ''The Terms of the Will''
* ''The Power of Love'' (1911)
* ''Love's Renunciation'' (1911)
* ''The Reporter'' (1911)
* ''The Lost Necklace'' (1911)
* ''Her Little Slipper'' (1911)
* ''For the Honor of the Name'' (1912)
* ''A Nation's Peril'' (1912)
* ''The Arrowmaker's Daughter'' (1912)
* ''The Hand of Destiny'' (1912)
* ''Pals'' (1912)
* ''
Resurrection
Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. In a number of religions, a dying-and-rising god is a deity which dies and is resurrected. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions, which ...
'' (1912)
* ''The Man from the North Pole'' (1912)
* ''The Girl in the Next Room'' (1912)
* ''Oh, Such a Night!'' (1912)
* ''The Gypsy Flirt'' (1912)
* ''The Quarrel'' (1912)
* ''Locked Out'' (1912)
* ''The Compact'' (1912)
* ''The Mad Lover'' (1912)
* ''The Eye of a God'' (1913), director and screenwriter
* ''The Secret Formula'' (1913)
* ''
The Count of Monte Cristo
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers''. Li ...
'' (1913), co-directed with
Edwin S. Porter
Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 2 ...
* ''Hearts and Flowers'' (1914)
* ''Divorced'' (1915), as producer only; film directed by Edward Warren
* ''Lady Audley's Secret'' (1915)
* ''The Masqueraders'' (1915)
* ''The Trunk Mystery'' (1915)
* ''Fine Feathers'' (1915), an adaptation of ''
Fine Feathers (play)
''Fine Feathers'' is a 1912 drama in four acts by Eugene Walter.
Origin
The play started as a scenario by Walter Hackett called "C.O.D.". Hackett, behind by $3,000 on his board bill at the Hotel Algonquin, negotiated with Frank M. Case, then ma ...
''
* ''The Master of the House'' (1915)
* ''The Price'' (1915), director and screenwriter
* ''
The Better Woman
''The Better Woman'' is a lost film, lost 1915 American silent film drama directed by Joseph A. Golden, and starring Lenore Ulric and Lowell Sherman.
Cast
* Lenore Ulric – Kate Tripler
* Edith Thornton – Aline Webster
* Lowell Sherman – F ...
'' (1915)
* ''Not Guilty'' (1915)
* ''The Senator'' (1915), an adaptation of ''
The Senator (play)
''The Senator'' was a popular 1890 comedic play by David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld, also made into a 1915 silent film.
Play
Rosenfeld, a prolific writer and adapter of plays, completed the play after Lloyd died; it is not known for sure how m ...
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* ''Behind Closed Doors or Love's Crossroads'' (1916)
* ''The Prima Donna's Husband'' (1916), co-directed with Julius Steiger
* ''The Libertine'' (1916)
* ''
The Law of Compensation
''The Law of Compensation'' is 1917 American silent drama film based on a story by Wilson Mizner and directed by Joseph A. Golden. The film starred Norma Talmadge, who played a dual role, Fred Esmelton, and Chester Barnett.Redemption'' (1917), co-directed with Julius Steiger
* '' Wolves of Kultur'' (1918 serial), director and screenwriter
* ''The Great Gamble'' (1919), director and screenwriter
* ''
The Whirlwind
''The Whirlwind'' is the third studio album by the band Transatlantic, released on October 23, 2009. It is available in three formats: a standard edition, a double disc special edition and a deluxe edition with a 105-minute making-of DVD.
The m ...
'' (1920 serial), director and screenwriter
* ''The Fatal Plunge'' (1924), screenwriter