Floyd Martin Thornton

Poster for * Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914), directed by Thornton

Floyd Martin Thornton (4 November 1884–1 April 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director, often credited as F. Martin Thornton.^[1]

Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England. In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex.^[2] They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin (1916–2010) and Paul Mulford Martin (1921–1994).^[3] In 1925 he, his wife and two sons left the UK for America,^[3] where they all remained for the rest of their lives.

He died in April 1956 in Orange, California in the USA.

Selected filmography[]

Director

• Santa Claus (1912)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales, 1914 short film
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914) first feature-length dramatic film made in Kinemacolor
• (1915)
• The Faith of a Child (1915)
• Jane Shore (1915)
• The Man Who Bought London (1916)
• Love's Old Sweet Song (1917)
• A Man the Army Made (1917)
• The Happy Warrior (1917)
• The Great Impostor (1918)
• A Romany Lass (1918)
• Nature's Gentleman (1918)
• The Splendid Coward (1918)
• The Knave of Hearts (1919)
• The Flame (1920)
• The Iron Stair (1920)
• Bars of Iron (1920)
• My Lord Conceit (1921)
• Frailty (1921)
• The Prey of the Dragon (1921)
• Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1921)
• Lamp in the Desert (1922)
• Belonging (1922)
• Melody of Death (1922)
• Little Brother of God (1922)
• Women and Diamonds (1924)
• Mutiny (1925)

References[]

External links[]

• Floyd Martin Thornton at IMDb

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