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
A winter baby from the edge-of-the-world village of Robbinston, Maine—population barely larger than the date he arrived, 15 February 1885—Laurence Trimble grew up where the Atlantic gnaws the pines, then traded salt air for klieg lights. Behind the camera he coaxed polar blizzards into suspense for Brawn of the North, turned a collie into a box-office philosopher in The Love Master, and proved Thomas Hardy’s Wessex could exist on a New Jersey backlot with Far from the Madding Crowd. Between action and cut he found time to wed two formidable women: pioneering film editor Marian Constance Blackton and screenwriter Jane Murfin. Sixty-eight winters after his first, he closed his personal final scene on 8 February 1954 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, leaving behind a legacy stitched together with pawprints, heartbeats, and the flicker of silent film.
