Albert W. Hale (January 1, 1882 – February 27, 1947)[1][2] was a French-born American early film director and producer.[3] He directed some 35 films from 1912 until 1915. He worked for Majestic Film Company studio,[4][5] and the National Film Corporation.[4]
Background
editHale was born in Bordeaux, France on January 1, 1882.[6]
He married Julia F. Johnson.[1]
Filmography
edit- The Birth of the Lotus Blossom (1912)
- For the Mikado (1912)[7]
- Miss Taqu of Tokio, also called Miss Tagu of Tokio[8] for the British release, (1912) with Tokuko Takagi, a Thanhouser film[9]
- Letters of a Lifetime (1912)
- The Light of St. Bernard (1912)[10]
- Three Girls and a Man (1912)
- Roland's Escapades[11]
- Days of Terror (1912)
- Three Girls and a Man (1912)
- She Cried (film) (1912)
- The Irony of Fate (film) (1912)
- A Fortune in a Teacup
- A Persistent Lover (1912)
- Her Old Sweetheart (1912)
- Roland's Lucky Day
- Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913)
- An Accidental Clue (1913)
- The Iceman's Revenge (1913)
- A Tide in the Affairs of Men (1913)
- The Mystery of Tusa (1913) starring J. Warren Kerrigan[12][13]
- Tom Blake's Redemption (1913)
- At the Half-Breed's Mercy (1913)
- Quicksands (1913), starring J. Warren Kerrigan[14]
- Calamity Anne Takes a Trip (1913)
- A Husband's Mistake (1913)
- Reward of Courage (1913)
- Buried Alive in a Coal Mine (1913)
- The No Account Count (1914), Kalem
- Tough Luck Smith (1914)
- Fatty and the Shyster Lawyer (1914)
- The Widow's Might (1914)
- A Wise Rube (1914)
- Tough Luck Smith (1914)
- Percy Pimpernickel, Soubrette (1914), a Kalem film[15][16]
- For the Love of Mike (1914)
- Jones' Wedding Day (1914)
- Easy Money (1914) from a story by Frank Howard Clark
- The Winking Zulu (1914)
- Was She a Vampire? (1915)
Producer
edit- The Prisoner of Zenda (1913)[17]
References
edit- ^ a b Vazzana, Eugene Michael (May 3, 2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland. ISBN 9780786410590 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Final Curtain". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. March 15, 1947 – via Google Books.
- ^ "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette". 1913.
- ^ a b "Exhibitors Contribute". Motography. May 3, 1916. p. 48 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Moving Picture World". Chalmers Publishing Company. May 3, 1914 – via Google Books.
- ^ "HALE, Albert, W." www.thanhouser.org.
- ^ "FOR THE MIKADO". www.thanhouser.org.
- ^ Exley, Charles (2017). "Popular Musical Star Tokuko Takagi and Vaudeville Modernism in the Taishõ Asakusa Opera". Japanese Language and Literature. 51 (1): 63–90. JSTOR 44508506.
- ^ "Miss Tagu of Tokio". Motion Picture News. Vol. 6. Motion Picture News Incorporated. May 3, 1912. p. 30 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Albert W. Hale". BFI. Archived from the original on January 28, 2020.
- ^ McQuade, Jas S. (May 3, 1916). "Chicago News Letter". The Moving Picture World and View Photographer. World Photographic Publishing Company. p. 2119 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Adventures of Jacques in Two Parts". Exhibitors' Times. W.A. Johnston. May 3, 1913 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Mystery of Tusa". To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette. Amer. Company, Limited. May 3, 1913 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Moving Picture World, July 5, 1913{{full citation needed|date=November 2024}
- ^ Gifford, Denis (April 5, 1971). Science fiction film. Studio Vista. p. 136. ISBN 9780289700037 – via Google Books.
- ^ Torres, Sandy (May 3, 2004). Les temps recomposés du film de science-fiction [The recomposed times of the science fiction film] (in French). Presses Université Laval. p. 379. ISBN 9782747564557 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Prisoner of Zenda". Turner Classic Movies.