Oscar Augustus Constantine Lund (May 21, 1885 – May 2, 1963) was a Swedish-born

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actor, screenwriter and director of the

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and Swedish motion picture industry.

Biography

Oscar A. C. Lund was born May 21, 1885 in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Swedish actor and theater director Carl Ludvig Lund (1858–1893). He emigrated in 1900 to the United States. Lund joined the burgeoning motion picture industry, directing his first film in 1912 titled ''The Wager''. The following year, Lund filmed ''The Great Unknown'' in Canada . Lund also wrote the screenplay as well as acted in many of the films he directed. In 1917 he wrote ''Mother Love and the Law'' based on a real life child-custody case in

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. Between 1912 and 1924, Lund directed more than 60 films in the United States. These included the first feature film made by the

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based U.S. division of the French Éclair Film Company in 1914 titled ''Into the Wilderness''. He was a director and writer for ''Together'' (1918), ''The Nature Girl'' (1918) and ''Peg of the Pirates'' (1918). He frequently worked with director and screenwriter B. A. Rolfe (1879–1956) and with the British actress

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(1892–1982), directing her in more than half a dozen films. Lund returned to Sweden in 1931, and to filmmaking, directing his first and only

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, a Swedish language film titled ''Kärlek och dynamit'' (1933). Lund died May 2, 1963 and was interred in the

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in Stockholm.

Selected filmography

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Lady Babbie ''Lady Babbie'' is a lost 1913 American silent drama film produced by the United States division of the French film company Eclair. The featurette was written and directed by Oscar A. C. Lund, a native of Sweden, who also costarred in the thr ...

'' (1913) *'' The Sons of a Soldier'' (1913) *''

Her New York ''Her New York'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by O. A. C. Lund and Eugene Moore and starring Gladys Hulette, William Parke Jr. and Riley Chamberlin.Connelly p.361 Cast * Gladys Hulette as Phoebe Lester * William Parke Jr. as ...

'' (1917) *'' For Woman's Favor'' (1924) * ''Kärlek och dynamit ( Love and Dynamite)'' (1933)

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