Samuel E. Hines

Biography

A Pittsburgh spring delivered Samuel E. Hines on 14 May 1880, and from the smoke of Pennsylvania steel he stepped onto screens when cinema itself was still learning to walk. In 1914 he steered audiences Across the Pacific, then, a decade later, struck emotional chords in The Lost Chord and traded sea breezes for sailor’s yarns in Shore Leave—three films that still whisper his name to anyone hunting celluloid ghosts. The California sun finally claimed him in Los Angeles on 17 November 1939, closing the curtain on a quiet journeyman who helped pilot early Hollywood across uncharted waters.