Henry Stanley

Biography

On a winter’s day in 1864, Manhattan’s streets echoed with the first cries of Henry Stanley, a New Yorker whose future flicker would grace the silent screen. Within four decades he stepped before the camera, animating the lawyer’s conscience in *A Woman in the Case* (1910), sailing through the adventure-serial waves of *Neal of the Navy* (1915), and plumbing spiritual depths in *The Human Soul* (1914).