Directing • AGE 66
James Stuart Blackton was a pioneer Anglo-American filmmaker and can be credited with the first feature-length American production. He founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897 and was among the first filmmak...


The Film Parade
Director
1933

The American
Director
1927

Hell-Bent for Heaven
Director
1926

The Gilded Highway
Director
1926

Bride of the Storm
Director
1926

The Happy Warrior
Director
1925

Tides of Passion
Director
1925

The Redeeming Sin
Director
1925

The Beloved Brute
Director
1924

The Clean Heart
Director
1924

Between Friends
Director
1924

Let Not Man Put Asunder
Director
1924

On the Banks of the Wabash
Director
1923

The Virgin Queen
Director
1923

The Glorious Adventure
Producer
1922

The Forbidden Valley
Director
1920

The House of the Tolling Bell
Director
1920

Passers-By
Director
1920

The Blood Barrier
Director
1920

Respectable by Proxy
Director
1920

My Husband's Other Wife
Director
1920

Dawn
Director
1919

The Moonshine Trail
Director
1919

A House Divided
Director
1919

The Common Cause
Director
1919

Life's Greatest Problem
Director
1918

Missing
Producer
1918

The World for Sale
Director
1918

The Diary of a Puppy
Director
1917

The Judgment House
Director
1917

The Fighting Trail
Story
1917

Transgression
Story
1917

The Message of the Mouse
Director
1917

The Fairy Godfather
Director
1917

Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation
Director
1917

A Spring Idyll
Director
1917

The Collie Market
Director
1917

Whom the Gods Destroy
Director
1916

The Heights of Hazard
Presenter
1915

Kidnapped in New York
Director
1915

Playing Dead
Supervising Producer
1915

The Battle Cry of Peace
Director
1915

The Life and Death of King Richard III
Producer
1912

As You Like It
Director
1912

A Vitagraph Romance
J. Stuart Blackton
1912

Lady Godiva
Director
1911

The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Director
1911

Little Nemo
Director
1911

Francesca di Rimini
Director
1910

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Director
1910

Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest
Supervising Producer
1910

Elektra
Director
1910

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Director
1909

The Life of Moses
Director
1909

The Way of the Cross, The Story of Ancient Rome
Director
1909

Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
Director
1909

Oliver Twist
Director
1909

The Judgment of Solomon
Director
1909

Napoleon, the Man of Destiny
Director
1909

King Lear
Director
1909

The Bride of Lammermoor
Director
1909

Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Director
1909

Antony and Cleopatra
Director
1908

Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet
Director
1908

Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers
Director
1908

Lightning Sketches
Cartoonist
1907

The Haunted Hotel
Director
1907

And the Villain Still Pursued Her; or, the Author's Dream
1906

The Automobile Thieves
1906

The 100 to One Shot; or, A Run of Luck
Director
1906

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
Cartoonist
1906

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Director
1905

Happy Hooligan Interferes
Happy Hooligan
1903

The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
Happy Hooligan
1902

Jeffries Skipping the Rope
Director
1901

The Artist's Dilemma
Director
1901

The Congress of Nations
Director
1900

The Enchanted Drawing
Chalk-Talk Artist
1900

Hooligan Assists the Magician
Happy Hooligan
1900

Maude's Naughty Little Brother
Director
1900

A Visit to the Spiritualist
Director
1899

"Shamrock" and "Erin" Sailing
Director
1899

Firemen Rescuing Men and Women
Director
1899

Astor Battery on Parade
Director
1899

The Cavalier's Dream
Director
1898

The Burglar on the Roof
Burglar
1898

Humpty Dumpty Circus
Director
1898

Edison Drawn by 'World' Artist
1896