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Edwin Thanhouser is a Director and Producer American born on 11 november 1865 at Baltimore (USA)

Edwin Thanhouser

Edwin Thanhouser
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Nationality USA
Birth 11 november 1865 at Baltimore (USA)
Death 21 march 1956 (at 90 years) at New York City (USA)

Edwin Thanhouser (November 11, 1865 – March 21, 1956) was an actor, businessman, and film producer, most notable as a founder of the Thanhouser Company, along with his wife Gertrude Thanhouser and brother-in-law Lloyd Lonergan.

Biography

Thanhouser was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1893, he joined the traveling company of Alessandro Salvini. After Salvini's unexpected death in 1896, Thanhouser managed the Academy Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconson for the Shubert family and then the Bush Temple Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He formed a stock company that put on hundreds of theatrical productions.

On February 8, 1900, Thanhouser married actress Gertrude Homan.

In 1909, Thanhouser and his family moved to New Rochelle, New York, where he leased space in an old wooden skating rink to start the Thanhouser Company. This pioneering movie studio released its first commercial film on March 15, 1910.

Thanhouser brought actress Florence La Badie to the company in 1911. From 1911 to 1917, she was the company's most prominent star. In 1912, he sold the film company to group headed by Charles J. Hite. Early in 1915, after Hite's death in an accident, Thanhouser took charge of the company again, but was not as successful as he had been before. The Thanhouser Film Corporation was liquidated in 1918.

Edwin Thanhouser engaged in securities investments and collected art in his later years. He died March 21, 1956.

Usually with

Florence La Badie
Florence La Badie
(6 films)
Ernest C. Warde
Ernest C. Warde
(4 films)
Lloyd Lonergan
Lloyd Lonergan
(5 films)
Wayne Arey
Wayne Arey
(4 films)
Carey L. Hastings
Carey L. Hastings
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Edwin Thanhouser (11 films)

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Director

The Evidence of the Film
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
, 15minutes
Directed by Edwin Thanhouser, Lawrence Marston
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors William Garwood, Marie Eline, Florence La Badie, Riley Chamberlin, Mignon Anderson
Rating61% 3.0959153.0959153.0959153.0959153.095915
The Evidence of the Film tells the story of a messenger boy at a film studio who is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. He is saved by his sister, a film cutter, who comes across some footage of her brother inadvertently walking into a location shot and being knocked down by the real-life villain.

Producer

The Man Without a Country
The Man Without a Country (1917)
, 1h
Directed by Ernest C. Warde
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Florence La Badie, Holmes Herbert, Carey L. Hastings
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.051423.051423.051423.051423.05142
As described in a film magazine, Barbara Norton (La Badie) and her brother Tom (Marlo), orphaned children of a veteran who gave his life for his country, go to live with their uncle Phineas (Howard) and aunt (Hastings) in the city. It is just before the entrance of the United States into the European war and the uncle is a pacifist. He holds meetings at home where Barbara assists him. Barbara's brother is a loyal American and is greatly troubled by the uncle's expectations to count on him. Barbara meets John Alton (Herbert), who wins her promise to be his wife. They are very happy until war is declared and Barbara cannot bear the thought of her future husband not doing service for his country. His "Peace at Any Price" button is the last straw and she gives him a choice of either joining the "colors" or breaking the engagement. John declares that he is a true pacifist and Barbara, believing that a man who cannot support his country is that country's enemy, breaks the engagement publicly. Her fiance becomes very unpopular at his club because of his views and is taken to task by one of his father's friends. Having lost Barbara and his popularity makes him resent the constant references to the United States and his debt to his country, and he curses his native land. Barbara enlists as a Red Cross nurse and her brother as a soldier. Later, an old friend of John's family, Pop Milton (Dundan), gives him a copy of The Man Without a Country and asks him to read it and rise above his treasonous views. He does so, and as he reads the immortal story the patriotic spirit of Barbara comes to him in a vision of Columbia who tells him that in a previous life he was the Philip Nolan of the story. She takes him back to historic times and shows him a succession of scenes from the book. The man of today sees with horror the famous court martial in which he was sentenced to never hear of the United States again, the tragedy of the careful carrying out of the sentence, and the pitiful death of the man, made easier by the humanity of Captain Danforth (Gilmour), who gives him a brief history of the land he learns to bless before he dies. John's spirit returns from the allegorical journey and he responds to the new and vigorous manhood within and enlists at once, thereby winning Barbara, who was at home on sick leave from her nursing work in France.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White (1917)

Directed by Ernest C. Warde
Genres Drama
Actors Florence La Badie, Richard Neill, Arthur Bauer, Wayne Arey, Claude Cooper
Roles Producer
Rating68% 3.402633.402633.402633.402633.40263
As described in a film magazine review, Laura Fairlie (Florence La Badie) marries Sir Pervival Glyde (Richard R. Neill) as a result of her father's last request. Shortly after her marriage, Ann Catherick (also played by Florence La Badie), known as the "woman in white" and who resembles Laura, comes to Laura and tells her of Glyde's past, making Laura unhappy. Marian (Gertrude Dallas), Laura's half sister, learns from Laura the true state of affairs and decides to keep an eye on Sir Pervival. Through the efforts of Marian, Laura is saved from an unhappy fate.
Divorce and the Daughter
Divorce and the Daughter (1916)

Directed by Frederick Sullivan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Florence La Badie, Edwin Stanley, Kathryn Adams
Roles Producer

Alicia is a poor girl living in the city with her family. When her father receives an inheritance, he is able to follow his dream of becoming an artist and moves his family near an artist's colony in the country. There he falls prey to a scheming widow, and he and his wife separate. Alicia, meanwhile, has become involved with a young man who is the widow's accomplice, and she throws over her former suitor, Dr. John Osborne. The young man is a proponent of free love, but he gets a little too free with Alicia and she beans him with a small statuette. She goes running back to her doctor sweetheart, and her parents decide to reconcile, since their separation obviously isn't doing their children any good.
Inspiration
Inspiration (1915)

Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran, Carey L. Hastings
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.323833.323833.323833.323833.32383
A young sculptor searches for the perfect model to inspire his work. He finds a poverty-stricken girl who he thinks is the one he has been looking for. When she wanders off, he visits all the famous statues in Manhattan hoping to find her again.
The Million Dollar Mystery
The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)

Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Florence La Badie, Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, Frank Farrington, Sidney Bracey, Lila Chester
Roles Producer
Rating60% 3.005873.005873.005873.005873.00587
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior to the beginning of the first reel. Baby Florence is left at a boarding school with a note and half a bracelet instructing that her father will come to take her back upon her eighteenth birthday. Hargreaves, here played by Alfred Norton, is chased by the Black Hundred, but he receives a note and money before attempting to escape by balloon on the top of a building. The balloon is shot down and the first chapter ends.
The Evidence of the Film
The Evidence of the Film (1913)
, 15minutes
Directed by Edwin Thanhouser, Lawrence Marston
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors William Garwood, Marie Eline, Florence La Badie, Riley Chamberlin, Mignon Anderson
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.0959153.0959153.0959153.0959153.095915
The Evidence of the Film tells the story of a messenger boy at a film studio who is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. He is saved by his sister, a film cutter, who comes across some footage of her brother inadvertently walking into a location shot and being knocked down by the real-life villain.
The Coffin Ship
The Coffin Ship (1911)
, 15minutes
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors William Garwood
Roles Producer
Rating55% 2.7964452.7964452.7964452.7964452.796445