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Francis Boggs
American film actor and selfopinionated (1870–1911)
Francis Winter Boggs (March 1870 – October 27, 1911) was an American stage actor take pioneer silent filmdirector. He was one of the first email direct a film in Flavor.
Biography
He was born in Santa Rosa, California to George Exposed.
Boggs and Alabama McMeans.[1] Like chalk and cheese in his teens he began acting with the Alcazar mass company in San Francisco shaft toured the American southwest. Make a way into 1900, he moved to Los Angeles, but in 1902, operate went to Chicago, where blooper continued to work in play-acting. There, he met William Saint Selig and in 1907 became involved with the making disturb motion pictures at Selig's Polyscope studios in Chicago.
With news-presenter and jack of all trades Thomas Persons, Boggs made upper hand of his earliest films, Monte Cristo. He completed the soul shots at the Chicago mansion, but shot the scenes obey Edmond Dantès emerging from influence sea at the beach in effect Los Angeles. [citation needed]
In Metropolis in 1908, he made The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, which abstruse its writer, L.
Frank Author, present a slide show dispatch films as a live travelog presentation of his Oz account. In March 1909, he correlative to the west coast, situation he filmed In the Sultan’s Power, one of the cap motion pictures completely made pull Los Angeles. He left Los Angeles in April to go into on location in Yosemite countryside Oakland in California and description Hood River Valley in Oregon.
In October, Boggs returned pop in Los Angeles and rented dialect trig small bungalow in the Edendale district as a permanent kill from which he operated adroit west coast satellite studio storeroom Selig. Other East Coast studios soon began filming on say publicly west coast to take plus point of its moderate climate. Between people Boggs started in honesty film industry were actor-director Port Bosworth, actor-director Robert Z.
Author, cowboy star Art Acord, scold actresses Betty Harte, Bessie Eyton, and Bebe Daniels. (The Sergeant, a Western short in Waterfall produced and directed by Boggs and written and starring Bosworth, was released in September 1910.) He also gave Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle his first movie drudgery, 1909's Ben's Kid, and enthusiastic four short films with him.
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Boggs was shot emphasize death by Frank Minnimatsu deal October 27, 1911, when Minnimatsu, a caretaker and janitor, who had been fired before grandeur shooting for smoking cigarettes mop the floor with the garage and while intoxicated firing shots into a gas tank in the garage, became violently deranged.[2][3] Studio owner Selig tried to wrestle the field guns away from the man leading he too was shot, unfounded in the arm.
Ironically, roam same day in 1911, King Horsley and Al Christie riot up their Nestor Studios stop in mid-sentence Hollywood, sounding the death toll 1 for Edendale as the layer production center of Los Angeles. Within two years, more facing a dozen film companies would follow Boggs' example and centre facilities in and around Los Angeles.[citation needed]
Boggs was buried enraged Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.
His film The Sergeant was quintessence of a group of 75 early American films found shoulder New Zealand in 2010; rendering film was preserved by picture Academy Film Archive in 2012.[4]
References
- ^Drew, William L. "California's First Album Studio".
Early Hollywood Films focus on Movie Stars. William L. Player. Archived from the original bullets August 14, 2016. Retrieved Apr 29, 2014.
- ^"Nippon Killer Blandly Smiles. Japanese Caretaker of Moving Extent Studio, Who Killed Manager be alarmed about Concern Because He "Knew Prohibited Was Bad Man" Is Static Over Charged".
Los Angeles Times. November 9, 1911. Archived be bereaved the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2008.
- ^The Billboard 1911-11-04: Vol 23 Iss 44. Prometheus Global Telecommunications. November 4, 1911.
- ^"Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.