Herbert Blaché
director, producer, writer
- Birth name:
- Herbert Blaché-Bolton
- Born:
- 1882-10-05, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1953-10-23, Santa Monica, California, USA
- Professions:
- director, producer, writer
Biography
Born within the sound of London’s Bow bells on 5 October 1882, Herbert Blaché swapped fog for footlights and, by his early thirties, was calling the shots behind the camera. Between 1913 and 1915 he steered audiences from the guarded corridors of A Prisoner in the Harem to the gritty ballad of The Song of the Wage Slave, pausing along the way to mastermind the heist thrills of The Million Dollar Robbery. Off-set he shared his life—and a pioneering stake in the new art of moving pictures—with trailblazer Alice Guy. The final reel rolled on 23 October 1953 in sun-washed Santa Monica, California, closing a career that helped shape cinema’s infancy.
