Laurence Trimble
actor, director, writer
- Born:
- 1885-02-15, Robbinston, Maine, USA
- Died:
- 1954-02-08, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
On a winter day in 1885, the tiny border town of Robbinston, Maine, welcomed Laurence Trimble into the world—an event that would one day send a New Englander’s imagination racing across silent-era screens. By 1915 he had steered Britain’s rustic passions for Far from the Madding Crowd, and seven years later he was coaxing canine heroics out of Brawn of the North, followed by the heartfelt The Love Master in 1924. Off-set, two marriages—first to Marian Constance Blackton, later to screenwriter Jane Murfin—shared the spotlight with his pen and megaphone. Trimble’s final curtain fell on 8 February 1954, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, closing a life spent turning stories into flickering light.
