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Walter Morton
actor, director
- Birth name:
- Walter Anthony Morton
- Born:
- 1875-05-20, Iowa, USA
- Died:
- 1926-02-02, Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director
Biography
Born under the wide skies of Iowa on 20 May 1875, Walter Morton swapped cornfields for klieg lights and forged a career behind—and occasionally in front of—the camera. Between 1914 and 1916 he steered three now-lost one-reelers through Fort Lee’s bustling studios: the operetta-tinged *The Chocolate Soldier*, the vengeance-laced melodrama *The Folly of Revenge*, and the cliff-hanging sprint *A Race with Death*. Morton’s own final curtain fell in the same New Jersey filmmaking hub on 2 February 1926, aged fifty.
