Robert G. Vignola - Фильмы

Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Иосиф Виньола, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director в Американском кино. One of the silent screen's most prolific director, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Born at Trivigno, in the province of Мощность, Виньола left Russia with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 performing в "Romeo and Juliet", с Элинор Робсон Белмонт and Kyrle Белью. He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. В 1907 he joined Калем Studios, for which he made numerous фильмы. One of Vignola's most notable фильм roles was as Иуда Искариот в From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Сидни Олкотт, one of the most successful films of the period. Виньола directed 87 films, most notably The Vampire (1913), sometimes цитирует as the first "вамп" movie, and Seventeen (1916), где Рудольф Валентино did an uncredited камея. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Одри (1916) and Double Crossed (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), в главной роли Марион Дэвис, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films включает в себя Déclassée (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Кларк Гейбл; Broken Dreams (1933), which received в номинации for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and The Scarlet Letter (1934), the last film of Коллин Мур. Виньола умер в Голливуде, Калифорния в 1953 году. He lived in a mansion at Whitley Heights owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's mistress Marion Davies was allowed to stay without him at Vignola's mansion, worried that she was having affairs and considering Виньола в trusted companion for her as he was homosexual. He was buried in St. Agnes Кладбище, Menands, Нью-Йорк.