Lamar Johnstone
Edward Lamar Johnstone | |
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Born | March 15, 1884 Fairfax, Virginia, United States |
Died | May 19, 1919 Palm Springs, California, United States | (aged 35)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1911-1919 |
Edward Lamar Johnstone (March 15, 1884 – May 21, 1919) was an American silent film actor and director.
Biography[]
Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Johnstone starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919. He often starred alongside Dorothy Gibson, an actress who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Johnstone directed three films; one in 1913 called Truth in the Wilderness, starring Charlotte Burton, The Turning Point (1914), and The Unforgiven (1915). In the 1916 serial Secret of the Submarine, Johnstone got to fly Juanita Hansen in a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane.[1]
He died on May 21, 1919 in Palm Springs, California.
Partial filmography[]
- Robin Hood (1912)
- The Lady Killer (1913)
- Sapho (*uncredited) (1913)
- Through a Telescope (1913)
- The Secret of the Submarine (1915)
- The Tongues of Men (1916)
- Ben Blair (1916)
- That Devil, Bateese (1918)
- The Girl of My Dreams (1918)
- The Sheriff's Son (1919)
- Diane of the Green Van (1919)
- Wolves of the Night (1919)
- The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
References[]
- ^ Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum c. 1953 page 121
External links[]
- Lamar Johnstone at IMDb
- Portrait of Lamar Johnstone by Thomas Staedeli
Categories:
- 1884 births
- 1919 deaths
- American male silent film actors
- Silent film directors
- Male actors from Virginia
- Actors from Fairfax, Virginia
- 20th-century American male actors
- American film actor, 1880s birth stubs