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Horace Vinton
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1854, Ohio, USA
- Died:
- 1930-11-26, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Ohio, 1854: the year Horace Vinton entered the world, already scribbling stories in his head. By 1912 he had traded ink for celluloid, turning The Moonshiner’s Task and Two Women and One Man into brisk, breathless one-reelers that flickered across nickelodeon screens. Four years later he coaxed Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers into the flickering light, directing the 1916 Romeo and Juliet that audiences queued to see. Off-set he shared his life with Eda Clayton—born the same year, gone a year after him—until death checked the reel on 26 November 1930 in New York City, the final fade-out of a man who helped teach the camera how to speak.
