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, w ...
actor and director.
Biography
Born in
Fairfax, Virginia
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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, an actress who survived the sinking of the ''
Titanic
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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
Vi ...
'', starring
Charlotte Burton
Charlotte E. Burton (May 30, 1881 – March 28, 1942) was an American silent film actress.
Career
Born in San Francisco, Burton was signed by the American Film Manufacturing Company in 1912 where she worked for several years. She join ...
, ''The Turning Point'' (1914), and ''The Unforgiven'' (1915). In the 1916 serial ''
Secret of the Submarine'', Johnstone got to fly
Juanita Hansen in a
Curtiss Model D pusher biplane.
[''Pictorial History of the Silent Screen'' by Daniel Blum c. 1953 page 121]
Death
Johnstone died on May 21, 1919, in
Palm Springs, California
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, his cause of death was
heart attack
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.
Filmography
As actor
As director
References
External links
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* Portrait o
Lamar Johnstoneby 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
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