Edwin Carewe was an American motion picture director, actor, producer, and screenwriter. He was born in Gainesville, Texas

Gainesville, Texas

Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Cooke County, Texas, United States. The population was 15,538 at the 2000 census.-History:...

, as Jay Fox.

Career

After brief studies at the universities of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 and Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 and a period of work with regional theatrical groups, he moved to New York in 1910, where he became a member of the Dearborn Stock Company. A stage actor from his teens, he had his screen debut in 1915's The Final Judgement, a film of the Rolfe-Metro.

Later he directed films for MGM and First National

First National

First National was an association of independent theater owners in the United States that expanded from exhibiting movies to distributing them, and eventually to producing them as a movie studio, called First National Pictures, Inc. It later merged with Warner Bros.-Early history:The First National...

. During his career Carewe provided early screen exposure to such actors as Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río

Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...

, Warner Baxter

Warner Baxter

Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...

, Francis X. Bushman

Francis X. Bushman

Francis Xavier Bushman was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. His matinee idol career started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife, but it did not survive the silent screen era....

 and Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper

Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...

. Although he directed and produced a number of critically and financially successful pictures during the silent era, he was not fully able to make the transition to sound. After resorting to sound remakes of his earlier successes, and later to low-budget and religious films, he made his last feature in 1934.

Death

Carewe died from a heart ailment

Cardiovascular disease

Heart disease or cardiovascular disease are the class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels . While the term technically refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system , it is usually used to refer to those related to atherosclerosis...

 in his Hollywood apartment, and is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, originally called Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles, California. It is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood...

.

Director

• Across the Pacific (1914)
• Cora (1915)
• The Cowboy and the Lady (1915)
• Destiny: Or, The Soul of a Woman (1915)
• The Final Judgment (1915)
• The House of Tears (1915)
• Marse Covington (1915)
• The Dawn of Love (1916)
• God's Half Acre (1916)
• Her Great Price (1916)
• Snowbird (1916)
• The Sunbeam (1916)
• The Upstart (1916)
• The Barricade (1917)
• The Greatest Power (1917)
• Her Fighting Chance (1917)
• The Trail of the Shadow (1917)
• Their Compact (1917)
• The Voice of Conscience (1917)
• The House of Gold (1918)
• Liberty Bond Jimmy (1918)
• Pals First (1918)
• The Splendid Sinner (1918)
• The Trail to Yesterday (1918)
• Easy to Make Money (1919)
• False Evidence (1919)
• The Right to Lie (1919)
• Shadows of Suspicion (1919)
• Way of the Strong (1919)
• Isobel or The Trail's End (1920)
• Rio Grande (1920)
• The Web of Deceit (1920)
• Habit (1921)
• Her Mad Bargain (1921)
• The Invisible Fear (1921)
• My Lady's Latchkey (1921)
• Playthings of Destiny (1921)
• I Am the Law (1922)
• A Question of Honor (1922)
• Silver Wings
  Silver Wings (film)
  Silver Wings is a 1922 drama film directed by Edwin Carewe and John Ford. The film is considered to be lost.-Cast:* Mary Carr - Anna Webb * Lynn Hammond - John Webb * Knox Kincaid - John...
  
   (1922)
• The Bad Man (1923)
• The Girl of the Golden West (1923)
• Mighty Lak' a Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose is a 1901 song with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton and music by Ethelbert Nevin.The lyrics are written in an approximation of an African American accent; such "dialect songs" were common in the era. The title thus means "Mighty like a rose"; this assessment is addressed by a...
  
   (1923)
• Madonna of the Streets (1924)
• A Son of the Sahara (1924)
• Joanna (1925)
• The Lady Who Lied (1925)
• My Son (1925)
• Why Women Love (1925)
• High Steppers (1926)
• Pals First (1926)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (1927 film)
  Resurrection is a 1927 Hollywood adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature length silent production starring Dolores del Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film...
  
   (1927)
• Ramona
  Ramona (1928 film)
  Ramona is a 1928 silent drama film directed by Edwin Carewe, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. It starred Dolores del Rio and Warner Baxter....
  
   (1928)
• Revenge (1928)
• Evangeline (1929)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (1931 English-language film)
  Resurrection is a 1931 English-language adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection produced by Universal Studios. It was an all-talking version starring John Boles and Lupe Vélez. It was directed by Edwin Carewe, who had also directed the previous 1927 silent adaptation. A Spanish language...
  
   (1931)
• Are We Civilized? (1934)

Actor

• The Water Rats (1912)
• Gentleman Joe (1912)
• The Moonshiner's Daughter (1912)
• A Girl's Bravery (1912)
• The Call of the Heart (1913)
• His Conscience (1913)
• Into the Light (1913)
• On Her Wedding Day (1913)
• Her Husband's Picture (1913)
• From Ignorance to Light (1913)
• The Wine of Madness (1913)
• The Great Pearl (1913)
• Kidnapping Father (1913)
• Retribution (1913)
• A Mock Marriage (1913)
• In the Harem of Haschem (1913)
• A Florida Romance (1913)
• Women of the Desert (1913)
• The Moonshiner's Wife (1913)
• Dolores' Decision (1913)
• The Soul of a Rose (1913)
• The First Prize (1913)
• The Supreme Sacrifice (1913)
• The Regeneration of Nancy (1913)
• Down on the Rio Grande (1913)
• It Might Have Been (1913)
• Love's Justice (1913)
• The Mexican Spy (1913)
• The Miser (1913)
• On the Threshold (1913)
• Private Smith (1913)
• The Three of Us (1914)
• Cora (1915)
• Snowbird (1916)

Producer

• Isobel or The Trail's End (1920)
• The Web of Deceit (1920)
• I Am the Law (1922)
• The Bad Man (1923)
• The Girl of the Golden West (1923)
• Mighty Lak' a Rose (1923)
• Madonna of the Streets (1924)
• A Son of the Sahara (1924)
• Joanna (1925)
• Why Women Love (1925)
• The Lady Who Lied (1925)
• My Son (1925)
• Pals First (1926)
• High Steppers (1926)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (1927 film)
  Resurrection is a 1927 Hollywood adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature length silent production starring Dolores del Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film...
  
   (1927)
• Revenge (1928)
• Evangeline (1929)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (1931 English-language film)
  Resurrection is a 1931 English-language adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection produced by Universal Studios. It was an all-talking version starring John Boles and Lupe Vélez. It was directed by Edwin Carewe, who had also directed the previous 1927 silent adaptation. A Spanish language...
  
   (1931)
• Are We Civilized? (1934)

Writer

• Across the Pacific (1914)
• The Dancer and the King (1914)
• Rio Grande (1920)
• Resurrection
  Resurrection (1927 film)
  Resurrection is a 1927 Hollywood adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection. Filmmaker Edwin Carewe adapted the book to a feature length silent production starring Dolores del Río and featuring an appearance by Ilya Tolstoy. In 1931, Edwin Carewe directed an all-talking remake of this film...
  
  (1927)

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