Albert L. Reitz

Biography

Albert L. Reitz stepped in front of the camera during the nickelodeon boom, leaving his silhouette on three swift one-reelers before the Great War drowned out the flicker of early Hollywood. He shadows the spy in The Patriot and the Spy (1915), chases ruin in Ambition (1915), and fights his way out of frame in Beating Back (1914)—each role a single-year flash that still flickers in the corners of cinema’s first frantic reels.