Arthur V. Johnson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur V. Johnson

actor

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1876

Place of Birth: Davenport, Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 17-Jan-1916

Profession: actor, stage actor, film director, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Arthur V. Johnson

  • Arthur Vaughan Johnson (February 2, 1876 – January 17, 1916) was a pioneer actor and director of the early American silent film era. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Rev.
  • Myron A.
  • Johnson, Arthur Vaughan Johnson left college at 19 to join a traveling Shakespearean troupe.
  • He later appeared on stage with Sol Smith Russell, Robert B.
  • Mantell and Marie Wainwright.
  • Johnson began as a film actor in 1905 with the Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York, appearing in the one-reel drama The White Caps directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., and Edwin S.
  • Porter.
  • In 1908, he went to work for Biograph Studios, where he acted in films directed by D.W.
  • Griffith including Resurrection (1909) and In Old California (1910), the first movie Griffith ever shot in Hollywood.
  • At Biograph, Arthur Johnson performed with stars such as Mary Pickford and Florence Lawrence.
  • Johnson was reputed to be Griffith's favorite actor.In 1911 he accepted an offer from Lubin Studios in Philadelphia that allowed him to direct as well as act.
  • With Lottie Briscoe, his frequent co-star at Lubin, Johnson directed and starred in The Belovéd Adventurer (1914), a 15 episode serial by Emmett Campbell Hall.
  • After performing in more than three hundred silent film shorts and directing twenty-six, health problems ended his career in 1915. According to an interview published nine months before his death, Arthur V.
  • Johnson married actress Maude Webb when he was 20 years old; the couple had a daughter who lived with Johnson's parents.
  • Other sources indicate that around 1910 he married Florence Hackett, with whom he appeared in the 1913 film Power of the Cross.
  • He died of tuberculosis in Philadelphia in 1916, a few weeks short of his fortieth birthday.
  • Johnson's funeral services were held in Philadelphia and his remains later interred at Fairview Cemetery, Chicopee, Massachusetts.
  • Nearby stands Grace Episcopal Church, where his father once served as rector.

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