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Burton L. King
actor, director, producer
- Birth name:
- Burton Lorain King
- Born:
- 1877-08-25, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died:
- 1944-05-04, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, producer
Biography
Cincinnati, 25 August 1877: a restless dreamer named Burton L. King first opened his eyes. By the time the silent era began to roar, he was already behind the camera, orchestrating thrills for *Won in the Stretch* (1917) and chaining Harry Houdini in the cliff-hanging serial *The Master Mystery* (1918). Two decades—and hundreds of reels—later, he still hadn’t loosened his grip on audiences, stirring storms with *When Lightning Strikes* (1934). Off-set, he shared his life with actress Adele Lane. The final curtain fell on 4 May 1944 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, but the flicker of the stories he shaped keeps racing across the screen of cinema history.
