Rollin Summers Sturgeon (August 25, 1877 – May 10, 1961) was an American
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
of
silent films
active from
1910 to 1924. He directed 101 films during this period.
Filmography
Director
*''Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1'' 1910
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A Little Lad in Dixie
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The Trapper's Daughter'' (1911)*short
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A Western Heroine'' (1911)*short
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Her Cowboy Lover''*short
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The Half-Breed's Daughter'' (1911)*short
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The Black Chasm'' (1911)*short
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The Heart of a Man
''The Heart of a Man'' is a 1959 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood and Tony Britton. Its plot concerns a millionaire in disguise who gives a young man money to help him pursue his singing c ...
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Justice of the Desert'' (1912)*short
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How States Are Made'' (1912) *short
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The Price of Big Bob's Silence'' (1912)*short
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The Craven'' (1912)*short
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Sheriff Jim's Last Shot'' (1912)*short
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The Greater Love
''The Greater Love'' is a 1913 American silent short drama film, directed by Allan Dwan, and starring Charlotte Burton and Mabel Brown and Edward Coxen
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The Redemption of Ben Farland'' (1912)*short
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The Triumph of Right'' (1912)*short
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The Prayers of Manuelo'' (1912)*short
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Her Brother
is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. The film is based on the novel ''Otōto'' by Aya Koda. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction.
Plot
17-year-old Gen takes care ...
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At the End of the Trail'' (1912)*short
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After Many Years'' (1912)*short
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The Redemption of Red Rube'' (1912)*short
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Too Much Wooing of Handsome Dan'' (1912)*short
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The Ancient Bow'' (1912)*short
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A Wasted Sacrifice'' (1912)*short
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The Road to Yesterday; or, Memories of Patio Days'' (1912)*short
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The Troubled Trail'' (1912)*short
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Bill Wilson's Gal'' (1912)*short
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When California Was Young'' (1912)*short
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The Spirit of the Range'' (1912) *short
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Out of the Shadows Out of the Shadows may refer to:
Films
* ''Out of the Shadows'' (unfinished film), an unfinished 1931 film
* ''Out of the Shadows'' (2012 film), a documentary film
*'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'', a 2016 film
Music
* ''Out o ...
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Timid May'' (1912)*short
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Omens of the Mesa'' (1912)*short
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Natoosa'' (1912)*short
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The Hat'' (1912)
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The Better Man'' (1912)*short
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A Bit of Blue Ribbon'' (1913) *short
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The Angel of the Desert'' (1913) *short
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The Winning Hand
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The Joke on Howling Wolf'' (1913)*short
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The Smoke from Lone Bill's Cabin'' (1913)*short
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The Whispered Word'' (1913) *short
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Polly at the Ranch'' (1913)*short
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A Corner in Crooks'' (1913) *short
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When the Desert Was Kind'' *short
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The Deceivers'' (1913)*short
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According to Advice'' (1913)*short
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A Matter of Matrimony'' (1913) *short
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The Two Brothers'' (1913)
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Bedelia Becomes a Lady'' (1913)*short
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After the Honeymoon'' (1913)*short
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The Power That Rules'' (1913)*short
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Cinders'' (1913)*short
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The Sea Maiden'' (1913)*short
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The Wrong Pair'' (1913)*short
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What God Hath Joined Together'' (1913)*short
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The Spell'' (1913)*short
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The Courage of the Commonplace'' (1913) *short
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The Ballyhoo's Story'' (1913)*short
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At the Sign of the Lost Angel'' (1913) *short
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Big Bob Waits'' (1913) *short
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Their Interest in Common'' (1914) *short
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Silent Trails'' (1914) *short
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Tony, the Greaser'' (1914) *short
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The Sea Gull'' (1914)*short
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Captain Alvarez
''Captain Alvarez'' is a 1914 Vitagraph's five-reel#Motion picture terminology, reel film, based on a stage play. Written by Marguerite Bertsch, and directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon.
Plot
A melodrama about an American who becomes a revolutionar ...
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The Little Angel of Canyon Creek'' (1914)
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The Sage-Brush Gal'' (1914)*short
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The Chalice of Courage''(1915)
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A Child of the North'' (1915)*short
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The Lorelei Madonna
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The Woman's Share'' (1915)*short
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Love and Law
''Love and Law'' is a 1910 American silent film, silent short film, short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film begins with a meeting between Tom Egan and Sue Jennings. Sue asks Tom, who had previously been sweethearts, for each oth ...
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Bitter Sweet'' (1916)*short
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Bill Peter's Kid'' (1916)*short
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God's Country and the Woman'' (1916)
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Through the Wall'' (1916)
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The Mystery of Lake Lethe'' (1917)*short
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The American Consul
''The American Consul'' is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and written by Thomas J. Geraghty, Harvey F. Thew and Paul West. The film stars Theodore Roberts, Ernest Joy, Maude Fealy, Charles West, Raymond Hat ...
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Whose Wife?'' (1917)
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Edged Tools'' (1917)
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The Upper Crust'' (1917)
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''The Rainbow Girl'' (1917)
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The Calendar Girl
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Betty and the Buccaneers'' (1917, see video)
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A Petticoat Pilot
''A Petticoat Pilot'' is a lost 1918 American comedy silent film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and written by Joseph C. Lincoln and Gardner Hunting. The film stars Vivian Martin, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Harrison Ford, Bert Hadley and ...
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The Shuttle'' (1918)
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Unclaimed Goods
''Unclaimed Goods'' is a 1918 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western comedy film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and written by Gardner Hunting and Johnston McCulley. The film stars Vivian Martin, Harrison Ford (silent film actor), ...
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Hugon, The Mighty''(1918)
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Destiny'' (1919)
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Pretty Smooth'' (1919)
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The Sundown Trail
''Sundown Trail'' is a lost 1919 American silent Western film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and starring Monroe Salisbury. It was produced and released by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
Cast
* Monroe Salisbury as "Quiet" Carter
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The Girl in the Rain
''The Girl in the Rain'' is a 1920 American silent mystery film directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and starring Anne Cornwall, Lloyd Bacon and Jessalyn Van Trump.Wlaschin p.95
Cast
* Anne Cornwall
Anne Cornwall (January 17, 1897 – March 2 ...
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The Breath of the Gods'' (1920)
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In Folly's Trail'' (1920)
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The Gilded Dream'' (1920)
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Risky Business
''Risky Business'' is a 1983 American teen comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Brickman (in his directorial debut) and starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. Best known as Cruise's breakout film, ''Risky Business'' was a critical ...
'', co-regia Harry B. Harris (1920)
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Danger Ahead'' (1920)
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The Mad Marriage'' (1921)
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All Dolled Up'' (1921)
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North of the Rio Grande'' (1922)
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West of the Water Tower
''West of the Water Tower'' is a 1923 American silent comedy drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Rollin S. Sturgeon and is based on the novel of the same name by Homer Croy. Gl ...
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Daughters of Today
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'' (1924)
Writer
* 1910 ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''
* 1912 ''Bill Wilson's Gal''
* 1913 ''The Transition''
* 1913 ''The Ballyhoo's Story''
* 1914 ''Tony, the Greaser''
* 1914 ''Only a Sister''
References
External links
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1877 births
1961 deaths
Silent film directors
Articles containing video clips
People from Rock Island, Illinois
Male actors from Illinois
Film directors from Illinois