George Bronson Howard
director, writer
- Birth name:
- George Fitzallan Bronson Howard
- Born:
- 1879-01-07, Relay, Maryland, USA
- Died:
- 1922-11-20, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- director, writer
Biography
George Bronson Howard entered the world on 7 January 1879 amid the iron-and-steam clang of Relay, Maryland. Before he turned forty he had already carved a name in flickering celluloid, scripting and steering three 1917 sensations—Perils of the Secret Service, The Last Cigarette, and The Crimson Blade—each one a whirlwind of cliff-hangers and velvet-lounge melodrama. Away from the arc lights he collected spouses the way others gathered press clippings: first the actress Dos Skinner, then the aristocratic poet Margaret Sackville, and finally a woman remembered only as Jean. On 20 November 1922 the cameras finally stopped rolling for him in Los Angeles, California, closing the frame on a life that had burned as fast and bright as the nitrate it was printed on.
