Ulysses Davis (November 5, 1872 – October 1, 1924), was an American film director. He directed 86 films between

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

and

1916 Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * ...

, some at

Champion Film Company The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass. The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures. Champion was the first film production company to establish i ...

. He is probably best remembered today for having directed ''The Kiss'', a 1914 film starring Margaret Gibson and

William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, 26 April 1872 – 1 February 1922) was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, ...

. He was born in

South Amboy, New Jersey South Amboy is a suburban city in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Raritan Bay. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city's population was 9,411.Forest Park, Illinois Forest Park (formerly Harlem) is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, United States. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the ...

Selected filmography

*''The Old Man and Jim'' (1911) *''Out of the Dark'' (1911) *''Molly Pitcher'' (1911) *''The Fighting Rev. Caldwell'' (1911) *''The Copperhead'' (1911) *''The Saving of Dan'' (1911) *''The Coward's Flute'' (1911) *''The Blood of the Poor'' (1912) *''Love That Never Fails'' (1912) *''The Brute'' (1912) *''A Divided Family'' (1912) *''For Her Father's Sake'' (1912) *''The Merchant Mayor of Indianapolis'' (1912) *''Wrongly Accused'' (1912) *''

Kid Canfield George Washington Bonner (1878 – March 12, 1935), popularly known as Kid Canfield, was an American gambler and confidence trickster who later reformed and made a series of lectures and two films on the prevalence of cheating in gambling. Born ...

'' (1912) *''Francine'' (1914) *''Anne of the Golden Heart'' (1914) *''The Love of Tokiwa'' (1914) *''Buffalo Jim'' (1914) *''The Way to Heaven'' (1914) *''Lost in Mid-Ocean'' (1914) *''Millions for Defence'' (1914) *''The Night Riders of Petersham'' (1914) *''The Kiss'' (1914) *''A Little Madonna'' (1914) *''Mareea the Half-Breed'' (1914) *''Johanna, the Barbarian'' (1914) *''Out in Happy Hollow'' (1914) *''Hunger Knows No Law'' (1914) *''The Mystery of the Hidden House'' (1914) *''The Last Will'' (1914) *''Only a Sister'' (1914) *''His Wife and His Work'' (1914) *''The Poor Folks' Boy'' (1914) *''Prosecution'' (1914) *''His Kid Sister'' (1914) *''Detective and Matchmaker'' (1914) *''The Horse Thief'' (1914) *''An Innocent Delilah'' (1914) *''Ward's Claim'' (1914) *''Brandon's Last Ride'' (1914) *''When the Gods Forgive'' (1914) *''Mareea, the Foster Mother'' (1914) *''Anne of the Mines'' (1914) *''Kidding the Boss'' (1914) *''The Choice'' (1914) *''Ann, the Blacksmith'' (1914) *''Sisters'' (1914) *''The Level'' (1914) *''Everything Against Him'' (1914) *''Pure Gold'' (1914) *''Love Will Out'' (1914) *''

A Natural Man ''A Natural Man'' is a 1915 silent film, silent film drama short directed by Ulysses Davis and produced by the Vitagraph Company of America. The General Film Company distributed the film. The film is preserved in the Library of Congress collectio ...

'' (1915) *''Marta of the Jungles'' (1916) *''A Cripple Creek Cinderella'' (1916) *''The Soul's Cycle'' (1916) *''

The Iron Hand ''The Iron Hand'' is a 1916 drama film directed by Ulysses Davis. It is not known whether the film currently survives. Plot Politician Tim Noland, and his companion Slim are both arrested. When they are both arrested, Noland decides to stop bein ...

'' (1916)

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* * 1872 births 1924 deaths People from South Amboy, New Jersey Silent film directors Burials in Forest Park, Illinois Film directors from New Jersey {{US-film-director-1870s-stub