Edward Lamar Johnstone (March 15, 1884 – May 21, 1919) was an American

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 ...

actor and director.

Biography

Born in

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, Johnstone starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919. He often starred alongside

Dorothy Gibson Dorothy Gibson (born Dorothy Winifred Brown; May 17, 1889 – February 17, 1946) was a pioneering American silent film actress, artist's model, and singer active in the early 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking o ...

, an actress who survived the sinking of the ''

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''. Johnstone directed three films; one in 1913 called ''

Truth in the Wilderness ''Truth in the Wilderness'' is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Lorimer Johnston starring Charlotte Burton and George Periolat, J. Warren Kerrigan and Jack Richardson. Also starring Lillian Leighton and Vivian Rich Vivi ...

'', starring

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, ''The Turning Point'' (1914), and ''The Unforgiven'' (1915). In the 1916 serial '' Secret of the Submarine'', Johnstone got to fly

Juanita Hansen Juanita Hansen (born Juanita Cecilia Hanson; March 3, 1895 – September 26, 1961) was an American actress who performed in silent films. She became one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties and appeared in a variety of serials through the late 191 ...

in a

Curtiss Model D The 1911 Curtiss Model D (or frequently "Curtiss Pusher") was an early United States pusher aircraft with the engine and propeller behind the pilot's seat. It was among the first aircraft in the world to be built in any quantity, during an era ...

pusher biplane.''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'' by Daniel Blum c. 1953 page 121

Death

Johnstone died on May 21, 1919, in

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, his cause of death was

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Filmography

As actor

As director

References

External links

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Lamar Johnstone
by Thomas Staedeli 1884 births 1919 deaths American male silent film actors Silent film directors Male actors from Virginia Actors from Fairfax, Virginia 20th-century American male actors {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub