List of American films of 1912
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A List of American films of 1912 is a compilation of American film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

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1912 in film
The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Mack Sennett, who had previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, formed a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel called Keystone Studios...

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
All for a Girl
All for a Girl (1912 film)
All for a Girl is a 1912 American short silent film romantic comedy, directed by Frederick A. Thomson and written by Wallace Reid.-Cast:*Dorothy Kelly .... Claire Taylor*Leah Baird .... Mrs. Gardner*Kate Price .... The Cook...

Frederick A. Thomson Dorothy Kelly
Dorothy Kelly
Dorothy Kelly was an American motion picture actress of the early silent film era.- Personal life :Dorothy Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Bessie and Thomas Kelly, descendants of Irish Quakers. In August 1916 she married wealthy lumber dealer Harvey Hevenor...

, Leah Baird
Leah Baird
Leah Baird was an American actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter.-Life:She began her film career in 1910 in Jean and the Waif opposite Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. She played several leads in William F. Brady's troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks...

 
Romantic comedy
At the Foot of the Ladder
At the Foot of the Ladder
At the Foot of the Ladder is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film starred Mignon Anderson, William Garwood, Carey L. Hastings, Harry Chamberlain, and Riley Chamberlain.-Cast:* Mignon Anderson as The Debutante...

Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.-Career:Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde...

, William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

 
Romantic drama
Aurora Floyd Theodore Marston
Theodore Marston
Theodore Marston was an American silent film director and writer of the early silent period...

 
William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.-Early life:While...

, Harry Benham
Harry Benham
Harry Benham was an American silent film actor.-Background:Born in Valparaiso, Indiana, as a child Benham and his family moved to Chicago, where he was raised and attended school...

 
Drama
Baby Hands
Baby Hands
Baby Hands is a 1912 American silent short drama film starring James Cruze as the husband and Jean Darnell as the wife. Also starring Helen Badgley....

James Cruze
James Cruze
James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...

, Jean Darnell
Jean Darnell
Jean Jarratt Darnell was an American silent film actress who has a brief career between 1912 and 1913.-Filmography:-External links:...

 
Drama
The Bandit of Tropico
The Bandit of Tropico
The Bandit of Tropico is a 1912 American silent short adventure film starring Harry von Meter as "The Bandit" and Vivian Rich his daughter....

Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter was an American silent film actor. He was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New York City in 1912, moving to American Film Studios a year or two later, and starred in about 200 films until 1929. He is perhaps most famous for starring in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Mons...

, Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich was an American silent film actress.-Career:Rich was born on the Atlantic ocean and spent her early years in Philadelphia. Later the family moved to Boston and she completed her education at the Boston Latin High School. From high school she went to the stage and played in musical...

 
Adventure
A Battle of Wits
A Battle of Wits (1912 film)
A Battle of Wits is a silent drama motion picture short starring Tom Moore, Alice Joyce and Earle Foxe.Joyce and Foxe were working together for the fourth time on this picture.A Battle of Wits was re-released on August 27, 1915.-Cast:...

Tom Moore, Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

, Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...

 
Drama
The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch
The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch
The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch is a 1912 American silent short Western comedy film directed by Thomas Ricketts starring Harry Van Meter and Vivian Rich....

Tom Ricketts
Tom Ricketts
Thomas "Tom" Ricketts was an English American silent film actor, director and screenwriter who was involved in almost 350 motion pictures....

 
Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter was an American silent film actor. He was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New York City in 1912, moving to American Film Studios a year or two later, and starred in about 200 films until 1929. He is perhaps most famous for starring in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Mons...

, Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich was an American silent film actress.-Career:Rich was born on the Atlantic ocean and spent her early years in Philadelphia. Later the family moved to Boston and she completed her education at the Boston Latin High School. From high school she went to the stage and played in musical...

 
A Business Buccaneer
A Business Buccaneer
A Business Buccaneer is a 1912 American short silent comedy film. It was the fifth time Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce had worked together that year.-Cast:* Tom Moore* Alice Joyce* Earle Foxe* Cleo Madison* Stuart Holmes...

Tom Moore, Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

 
Comedy
Charge of the Light Brigade J. Searle Dawley
J. Searle Dawley
J. Searle Dawley was an American director and screenwriter. He directed 149 films between 1907 and 1926. He was born in Del Norte, Colorado and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...

 
James Gordon
James Gordon (actor)
James Gordon was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 127 films between 1911 and 1935. He also directed 4 films between 1913 and 1915, including the 1915 film The New Adventures of J...

, Richard Neill
Richard Neill
Richard Neill was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 130 films between 1911 and 1951.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.-Selected filmography:...

War
Conductor 786
Conductor 786
Conductor 786 is a 1912 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Jean Darnell.-Cast:* Riley Chamberlin as Conductor 786* William Garwood as The Conductor's Son* Jean Darnell as The Conductor's Son's Wife...

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Riley Chamberlin
Riley Chamberlin
Riley Chamberlin was an American silent film actor. He began acting in films at the age of 57, and starred in over 100 films until his death five years later at the age of 62.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Jean Darnell
Jean Darnell
Jean Jarratt Darnell was an American silent film actress who has a brief career between 1912 and 1913.-Filmography:-External links:...

 
Comedy
The County Fair
The County Fair
The County Fair is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce who had acted together earlier in the year in The Street Singer. It was the second film of Earle Foxe, aged seventeen.-Cast:*Alice Joyce as Mary...

Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...

, Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

 
Drama
The Deserter
The Deserter (1912 film)
The Deserter is a 1912 silent black-and-white two-reel film written and directed by Thomas H. Ince. It was released March 15, 1912 and starred Francis Ford and Ethel Grandin.-Plot:...

Thomas H. Ince
Thomas H. Ince
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...

 
Francis Ford
Francis Ford (actor)
Francis Ford was a prolific film actor, writer, and director. He was the older brother of film director John Ford. He also appeared in many of John Ford's movies, including Young Mr. Lincoln and The Quiet Man.He starred in the 1912 two-reeler The Deserter by Thomas H. Ince and acted in over 400...

, Ethel Grandin
Ethel Grandin
Ethel Grandin was an American silent film actress.She was married to Ray C. Smallwood from 1912 until his death on February 23, 1964; they had a son named Arthur Smallwood .She began her acting career on stage appearing with Joseph Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle...

 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912 film)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1912 horror film based on both Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and on the play version of Thomas Russell Sullivan. Directed by Lucius Henderson, the film stars actor James Cruze as the dual role of Jekyll/Hyde.-Plot...

Lucius Henderson  James Cruze
James Cruze
James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...

 
Horror
Frankfurters and Quail
Frankfurters and Quail
Frankfurters and Quail is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood....

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

 
Drama
From the Manger to the Cross
From the Manger to the Cross
From the Manger to the Cross or Jesus of Nazareth is a 1912 American motion picture filmed on location in Palestine which tells the story of Jesus' life. Directed by Sidney Olcott who also appeared in the film, actress and screenwriter Gene Gauntier wrote the script and portrayed the Virgin Mary...

Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott
Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter.-Biography:Born John Sidney Alcott in Toronto, he became one of the first great directors of the motion picture business...

 
Robert Henderson-Bland
The Half-Breed's Way
The Half-Breed's Way
The Half-Breed's Way is a 1912 American silent short Western starring Harry von Meter, Vivian Rich and George Beech....

Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter was an American silent film actor. He was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New York City in 1912, moving to American Film Studios a year or two later, and starred in about 200 films until 1929. He is perhaps most famous for starring in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Mons...

, Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich was an American silent film actress.-Career:Rich was born on the Atlantic ocean and spent her early years in Philadelphia. Later the family moved to Boston and she completed her education at the Boston Latin High School. From high school she went to the stage and played in musical...

, George Beech
Western
His Only Son
His Only Son
His Only Son is a 1912 short Western film directed by Jack Conway and Milton J. Fahrney.-Cast:* Wallace Reid* Dorothy Davenport* Jack Conway* Victoria Forde* Hoot Gibson...

Jack Conway and Milton J. Fahrney Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid
Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...

, Dorothy Davenport
Dorothy Davenport
Dorothy Davenport was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith.-Early career:...

 
Western
It Happened Thus
It Happened Thus
It Happened Thus is a 1912 American silent short romantic drama starring Charlotte Burton and Owen Moore.-Cast:* Charlotte Burton as The Older Daughter* Fritzi Brunette as The Younger Daughter* Owen Moore...

Charlotte Burton
Charlotte Burton
Charlotte Burton was an American silent film actress.-Career:Born in San Francisco, Burton was signed by the American Company in 1912 where she worked for several years. She joined Essanay Studio which she sued in 1919 for $25,000 for breach of contract...

, Owen Moore
Owen Moore
Owen Moore was an Irish-born actor in American films, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.-Life and career:...

 
Romantic drama
The Land Beyond the Sunset Harold M. Shaw Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Bigelow Cooper
The Little Girl Next Door
The Little Girl Next Door
The Little Girl Next Door is a 1912 American silent short drama directed by Lucius Henderson and written by Philip Lonergan. The film starred William Garwood and Marguerite Snow in the lead roles.-Cast:* William Garwood as The Husband...

Lucius J. Henderson
Lucius J. Henderson
Lucius J. Henderson was an American silent film director of the early silent period involved in over 70 film productions.-Biography:A classically trained musician, Lucius J...

 
William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow was an American silent film actress. Her father was a comedian. She was educated in Denver, Colorado at the Loretta Heights Academy.-Silent Film Leading Lady:...

 
Drama

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Title Director Cast Genre Notes
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Musketeers of Pig Alley is a 1912 American short drama film credited as the first gangster film in history. It is directed by D. W. Griffith and written by Griffith and Anita Loos. It is also credited for its early use of follow focus, a fundamental tool in cinematography.The film was released...

D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

 
Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

 
Drama
A New Cure for Divorce
A New Cure for Divorce
A New Cure for Divorce is a 1912 American silent short drama film written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film stars William Garwood and Mignon Anderson....

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.-Career:Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde...

 
Drama
The New York Hat
The New York Hat
The New York Hat is a short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith from a screenplay by Anita Loos, and starring Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Lillian Gish.-Production:...

David Wark Griffith  Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

, Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...

, Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

 
Based on a scenario by Anita Loos
Anita Loos
Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...

Petticoat Camp
Petticoat Camp
Petticoat Camp is a 1912 American silent short comedy film starring William Garwood and Florence La Badie.-Plot:Only lasting 15 minutes, it is a light-hearted comedy about the battle between the sexes as several married couples go on a camp-out together...

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.-Early life:While...

 
Comedy
Please Help the Pore
Please Help the Pore
Please Help the Pore is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood, Riley Chamberlin, Mignon Anderson and Marie Eline....

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Riley Chamberlin
Riley Chamberlin
Riley Chamberlin was an American silent film actor. He began acting in films at the age of 57, and starred in over 100 films until his death five years later at the age of 62.-Selected filmography:-External links:...

, Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.-Career:Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde...

, Marie Eline
Marie Eline
Marie Eline was an American silent film child actress and sister of Grace Eline, who apparently turned 111 in 2009. Nicknamed The Thanhouser Kid she began acting for the Thanhouser Company in film aged 8 and starred in exactly 100 films between 1910 and 1914.-Filmography:* Uncle Tom's Cabin ......

 
Drama
The Power of Melody
The Power of Melody
The Power of Melody is a 1912 American silent short drama film starring Harry Van Meter, Vivian Rich, and Eugenie Forde....

Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter was an American silent film actor. He was signed by the Thanhouser Company based in New York City in 1912, moving to American Film Studios a year or two later, and starred in about 200 films until 1929. He is perhaps most famous for starring in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Mons...

, Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich
Vivian Rich was an American silent film actress.-Career:Rich was born on the Atlantic ocean and spent her early years in Philadelphia. Later the family moved to Boston and she completed her education at the Boston Latin High School. From high school she went to the stage and played in musical...

, Eugenie Forde
Eugenie Forde
Eugenie Forde was an American silent film actress.She starred in a total of 73 films between 1912 and 1927 in films such as The Diamond from the Sky and Wives and Other Wives with actors such as Charlotte Burton and William Garwood.She was the mother of actress Victoria Forde.-Selected...

 
Drama
Put Yourself in His Place
Put Yourself in His Place
Put Yourself in His Place is a 1912 American silent short drama based on an 1870 English novel. The film was adapted and directed by Theodore Marston, and stars William Garwood and Marguerite Snow in the lead roles...

Theodore Marston
Theodore Marston
Theodore Marston was an American silent film director and writer of the early silent period...

 
William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow was an American silent film actress. Her father was a comedian. She was educated in Denver, Colorado at the Loretta Heights Academy.-Silent Film Leading Lady:...

 
Drama
Saved from the Titanic
Saved From the Titanic
Saved From the Titanic is a 1912 silent motion picture short starring Dorothy Gibson, an actual survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.The movie was shot in less than two weeks and in black and white, with color scenes...

Étienne Arnaud Dorothy Gibson
Dorothy Gibson
Dorothy Gibson was a pioneering American silent film actress, artist's model and singer active in the early 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.-Early life and career:...

 
A Six Cylinder Elopement
A Six Cylinder Elopement
A Six Cylinder Elopement is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy written by Lloyd Lonergan. The film starred William Garwood, Riley Chamberlain and Marguerite Snow.-Cast:* Riley Chamberlain as Ex-Congressman Gray, The Girl's Father...

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Riley Chamberlain, Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow
Marguerite Snow was an American silent film actress. Her father was a comedian. She was educated in Denver, Colorado at the Loretta Heights Academy.-Silent Film Leading Lady:...

 
Romantic comedy
Standing Room Only
Standing Room Only (1912 film)
Standing Room Only is a 1912 American silent short romantic comedy film starring William Garwood, and Mignon Anderson....

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.-Career:Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde...

 
Drama
The Street Singer
The Street Singer
The Street Singer is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce. It was Foxe's first film, aged seventeen....

Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...

, Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

 
Drama
The Tell-Tale Message
The Tell-Tale Message
The Tell-Tale Message is a 1912 American short silent film drama....

Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...

, Hazel Neason, Stuart Holmes 
Drama
The Thunderbolt
The Thunderbolt
The Thunderbolt is a 1912 American silent short drama starring William Garwood, James Cruze, David Thompson, Jean Darnell and Mignon Anderson.-Cast:* James Cruze as The Dishonest Broker* Mignon Anderson as The Broker's Daughter, as an Adult...

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, James Cruze
James Cruze
James Cruze was a silent film actor and film director.-Life:Cruze was born as Jens Vera Cruz Bosen. The Vera Cruz middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but did not practice the religion after his teenage years...

, David Thompson
David H. Thompson
-External links:...

 
Drama
An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy is a 1912 Biograph short silent film directed by D. W. Griffith, and was the first movie to be made starring the actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish. A critic of the time stated that "the Gish sisters gave charming performances in this one-reel film"...

D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

 
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

, Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...

 
First film to star the Gish sisters
The Voice of Conscience
The Voice of Conscience
The Voice of Conscience is a 1912 American silent short drama starring Florence La Badie and Jean Darnell....

Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.-Early life:While...

, Jean Darnell
Jean Darnell
Jean Jarratt Darnell was an American silent film actress who has a brief career between 1912 and 1913.-Filmography:-External links:...

 
Drama
What Happened to Mary?
What Happened to Mary?
What Happened to Mary is the first motion picture serial made in the United States...

Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin
Charles J. Brabin was an American film director and screenwriter. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies....

 
Mary Fuller
Mary Fuller
Mary Claire Fuller was an American stage and silent film actress and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in Washington, D.C., to Nora Swing and attorney Miles Fuller, she spent her childhood on a farm. As a child, she was interested in music, writing and art...

, Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott
Marcus McDermott was an Australian-born American actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death.-Early life and career:...

 
When the Heart Calls
When the Heart Calls
When the Heart Calls is a 1912 silent era short western/comedy motion picture starring Lee Moran, Russell Bassett, Louise Glaum, and Victoria Forde....

Al Christie
Al Christie
Al Christie was a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Born Alfred Ernest Christie, in London, Ontario, Canada, he was one of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, California, attracted by the newly developing motion...

 
Lee Moran
Lee Moran
Lee Moran was an American actor, director and writer. He transcended the silent era of motion pictures to the talkies. Moran appeared in 462 films, directed 109 and wrote for 92 between 1912 and 1935....

 
Russell Bassett
Russell Bassett
Russell Bassett was an American actor. He appeared in 76 silent era motion pictures between 1911 and 1918.He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and died from a cerebral hemorrhage in New York City.-External links:...

 
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum
Louise Glaum was an American actress. Best known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career....

 
Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 
comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 
With the Mounted Police
With the Mounted Police
With the Mounted Police is a 1912 American silent short film written by Lloyd Lonergan. Starring William Garwood as a Mounted Police Officer and Mignon Anderson his sweetheart....

William Garwood
William Garwood
William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

, Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson
Mignon Anderson was an American silent film actress. Her career was at its peak in the 1910s.-Career:Born in Baltimore, Anderson's parents, Hallie Howard and Frank Anderson, were also actors. In 1911 she joined Thanhouser Studios in New Rochelle, New York. She was very diminutive and a blonde...

 
Romantic thriller
The Young Millionaire
The Young Millionaire
The Young Millionaire is a 1912 short silent film drama. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce who were acting together in their third film that year, having already starred in The Street Singer and The County Fair. It was the third film of Earle Foxe, aged seventeen.-Cast:*Tom Moore *Alice...

Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe was an American actor.-Background:Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher, born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge. Always very...

, Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce
Alice Joyce was an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s, perhaps best known for her roles in the 1923 silent and 1930 talking versions of The Green Goddess....

 
Drama

External links

  • American films of 1912 at the Internet Movie Database
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