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Langdon McCormick
writer
- Birth name:
- Arthur Langdon McCormick
- Born:
- 1874-03-02, Port Huron, Michigan, USA
- Died:
- 1954-06-25, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
A winter baby born in Port Huron, Michigan, on 2 March 1874, Langdon McCormick grew up to spin storms, shipwrecks and torrents into silver-screen stories. Three decades after his 1924 silent melodrama The Torrent surged across theaters, his 1938 talkie The Storm rumbled into cinemas, book-ended by the 1926 maritime saga Shipwrecked. Off-screen he shared his life with Sylvia Bidwell, his wife and steadfast companion. McCormick’s final curtain fell on 25 June 1954 in New York City, closing a career that had turned Midwestern roots into Hollywood tempests.
