| Rollin Summers Sturgeon | |
|---|---|
 From a 1920 magazine | |
| Born | (1877-08-25)August 25, 1877 Rock Island, (Illinois) |
| Died | May 10, 1961(1961-05-10) (aged 83) Santa Monica,(California) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | film director and screenwriter |
Rollin Summers Sturgeon (August 25, 1877 – May 10, 1961) was an American film director of silent films active from 1910 to 1924. He directed 101 films during this period.
Filmography
Director
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1 1910
- A Little Lad in Dixie (1911)*short
- The Trapper's Daughter (1911)*short
- A Western Heroine (1911)*short
- Her Cowboy Lover*short
- The Half-Breed's Daughter (1911)*short
- The Black Chasm (1911)*short
- The Heart of a Man (1912)*short
- Justice of the Desert (1912)*short
- How States Are Made (1912) *short
- The Price of Big Bob's Silence (1912)*short
- The Craven (1912)*short
- Sheriff Jim's Last Shot (1912)*short
- The Greater Love (1912)*short
- The Redemption of Ben Farland (1912)*short
- The Triumph of Right (1912)*short
- The Prayers of Manuelo (1912)*short
- Her Brother (1912)*short
- At the End of the Trail (1912)*short
- After Many Years (1912)*short
- The Redemption of Red Rube (1912)*short
- Too Much Wooing of Handsome Dan (1912)*short
- The Ancient Bow (1912)*short
- A Wasted Sacrifice (1912)*short
- The Road to Yesterday; or, Memories of Patio Days (1912)*short
- The Troubled Trail (1912)*short
- Bill Wilson's Gal (1912)*short
- When California Was Young (1912)*short
- The Spirit of the Range (1912) *short
- Out of the Shadows (1912)*short
- Timid May (1912)*short
- Omens of the Mesa (1912)*short
- Natoosa (1912)*short
- The Hat (1912)
- The Better Man (1912)*short
- A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913) *short
- The Angel of the Desert (1913) *short
- The Winning Hand (1913 *short
- The Joke on Howling Wolf (1913)*short
- The Smoke from Lone Bill's Cabin (1913)*short
- The Whispered Word (1913) *short
- Polly at the Ranch (1913)*short
- A Corner in Crooks (1913) *short
- When the Desert Was Kind *short
- The Deceivers (1913)*short
- According to Advice (1913)*short
- A Matter of Matrimony (1913) *short
- The Two Brothers (1913)
- Bedelia Becomes a Lady (1913)*short
- After the Honeymoon (1913)*short
- The Power That Rules (1913)*short
- Cinders (1913)*short
- The Sea Maiden (1913)*short
- The Wrong Pair (1913)*short
- What God Hath Joined Together (1913)*short
- The Spell (1913)*short
- The Courage of the Commonplace (1913) *short
- The Ballyhoo's Story (1913)*short
- At the Sign of the Lost Angel (1913) *short
- Big Bob Waits (1913) *short
- Their Interest in Common (1914) *short
- Silent Trails (1914) *short
- Tony, the Greaser (1914) *short
- The Sea Gull (1914)*short
- Captain Alvarez(1914)
- The Little Angel of Canyon Creek (1914)
- The Sage-Brush Gal (1914)*short
- The Chalice of Courage(1915)
- A Child of the North (1915)*short
- The Lorelei Madonna (1915)*short
- The Woman's Share (1915)*short
- Love and Law (1915)
- Bitter Sweet (1916)*short
- Bill Peter's Kid (1916)*short
- God's Country and the Woman (1916)
- Through the Wall (1916)
- The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917)*short
- The American Consul (1917)
- Whose Wife? (1917)
- Edged Tools (1917)
- The Upper Crust (1917)
- The Rainbow Girl (1917)
- The Calendar Girl (1917)
- Betty and the Buccaneers (1917, see video)
- A Petticoat Pilot (1918)
- The Shuttle (1918)
- Unclaimed Goods (1918)
- Hugon, The Mighty(1918)
- Destiny (1919)
- Pretty Smooth (1919)
- The Sundown Trail (1919)
- The Girl in the Rain (1920)
- The Breath of the Gods (1920)
- In Folly's Trail (1920)
- The Gilded Dream (1920)
- Risky Business, co-regia Harry B. Harris (1920)
- Danger Ahead (1920)
- The Mad Marriage (1921)
- All Dolled Up (1921)
- North of the Rio Grande (1922)
- West of the Water Tower (1923)
- Daughters of Today (1924)
Writer
- 1910 Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 1912 Bill Wilson's Gal
- 1913 The Transition
- 1913 The Ballyhoo's Story
- 1914 Tony, the Greaser
- 1914 Only a Sister
References
- Paul C. Spehr; Gunnar Lundquist; Einar Lauritzen (1996). American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920: filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-0255-7.
- Hischack, Thomas (2012). American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations. McFarland. p. 255. ISBN 9780786492794. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- Charlie Keil; Shelley Stamp (2004). American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-520-24027-8.
- Larry Langman (1998). American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-313-30657-0.
- ^ Alan Goble (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 28. ISBN 978-3-11-095194-3.
- Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1918. p. 998.
- Leonhard Gmür (2013). Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen. epubli. p. 182. ISBN 978-3-8442-4601-8.