Augustus Thomas
director, producer, writer
- Birth name:
- Augustus Thorn Thomas
- Born:
- 1857-01-08, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Died:
- 1934-08-12, Nyack, New York, USA
- Professions:
- director, producer, writer
Biography
On a winter’s day in 1857, St. Louis greeted its newest storyteller: Augustus Thomas. By 1913 he had turned the racetrack drama *Checkers* into flickering life; the next year he plunged audiences into the raw chaos of *The Jungle* and then charmed them with the bittersweet warble of *The Nightingale*. Behind the camera and the pen he shaped early American cinema while Lisle Colby stood beside him as his wife and anchor. Seventy-seven autumns later, in 1934, the Hudson River town of Nyack, New York, became the final curtain for the Missouri boy who taught the silent screen to speak.
Filmography
Written (3)
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