Charles William Goddard was a playwright and screenwriter.

Goddard began writing Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 plays before turning to film, adapting a number of his stage works to film. He wrote the script for the Pathé Freres film The Exploits of Elaine

The Exploits of Elaine

The Exploits of Elaine is a film serial in the genre of The Perils of Pauline.The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as "The Clutching Hand", who murdered her father. The Clutching Hand was the first...

, which has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry

National Film Registry

The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Board's selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The Board, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992, 1996, 2005, and again in October 2008...

. Today he is interred in Evergreen Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)

Evergreen Cemetery is a garden style cemetery in Portland, Maine, United States. With of land, it is the second largest cemetery in the state. It was established in 1855 and became the city's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery. As of March 2011, only of the were used for cemetery-related...

 in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

.

He was born in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

 and died in Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

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.

Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 plays

• The Misleading Lady (1913)
• The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. It is considered widely to be the first film of a long line based on the genre of haunted house horror...
  
  (1914)
• Miss Information (1915)
• The Last Laugh (1915)
• The Broken Wing (1920)

Screenplays

• The Perils of Pauline
  The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)
  The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring Pearl White as the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel in distress, although some analyses hold that her character was more resourceful and less helpless than the...
  
  (1914)
• The Exploits of Elaine
  The Exploits of Elaine
  The Exploits of Elaine is a film serial in the genre of The Perils of Pauline.The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as "The Clutching Hand", who murdered her father. The Clutching Hand was the first...
  
  (1914)
• The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker
  The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. It is considered widely to be the first film of a long line based on the genre of haunted house horror...
  
  (1914)
• The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford
  The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford
  -Cast:* Burr McIntosh - J. Rufus 'Jim Wallingford* Max Figman - Blackie Daw* Lolita Robertson - Violet Warden* Frances White - Fanny Warden* Edward O'Connor - Onion Jones* Harry Mainhall - Benzy Falls Jr.* Allan Murnane - Andre Perigourd...
  
  (1915)
• The Goddess (1915)
• Hearts of Three (1916; later novelized by Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  )
• The Misleading Lady  (1916)
• The Mysteries of Myra (1916)
• The Hidden Hand
  The Hidden Hand (serial)
  The Hidden Hand is a 1917 film serial directed by James Vincent. This is a lost serial.-Cast:* Doris Kenyon - Doris Whitney* Sheldon Lewis - Dr. Scarley* Mahlon Hamilton - Jack Ramsey* Arline Pretty - Vera Orane* Henry Sedley...
  
  (1917)
• Patria (1917)
• The Lightning Raider
  The Lightning Raider
  The Lightning Raider is a 1919 American action film serial directed by George B. Seitz. It was the on-screen debut of Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Pearl White as The Lightning Raider* Warner Oland as Wu Fang* Henry G. Sell as Thomas Babbington North...
  
  (1919)
• The Hope Diamond Mystery
  The Hope Diamond Mystery
  The Hope Diamond Mystery is a 1921 action film serial directed by Stuart Paton and featuring Boris Karloff.-Cast:* Harry Carter - Ghung / Sidney Atherton* Grace Darmond - Bibi / Mary Hilton* George Chesebro - John Baptiste Tavanier / John Gregge...
  
  (1921)
• The Broken Wing (1932)

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