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Sidney Olcott (1873–1949)

Director | Actor | Writer

Prolific silent film director, the son of Irish immigrants. He started as an actor on the New York stage, and then appeared in films for Mutoscope in 1904, eventually working his way up to general manager of Biograph. Lured away to a rival company, he began to direct features for Kalem by 1907. That year... See full bio »

Born:

John Sidney Alcott
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Died:

(age 76) in Hollywood, California, USA
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1927 The Claw
 
1926 The White Black Sheep
 
1926 The Amateur Gentleman
 
1926 Ranson's Folly
 
1925 The Best People
 
1925 Not So Long Ago
 
1925 The Charmer
 
1925 Salome of the Tenements
 
1924 The Only Woman
 
1924 Monsieur Beaucaire
 
1924 The Humming Bird
 
1923 The Green Goddess
 
1923 Little Old New York
 
1922 Timothy's Quest
 
1921 Pardon My French
 
1921 God's Country and the Law
 
1921 The Right Way
 
1920 Scratch My Back
 
1919 Marriage for Convenience
 
1918 The Belgian
 
1916 The Daughter of MacGregor
 
1916/I The Smugglers
 
1916 The Innocent Lie
 
1916 Poor Little Peppina
 
1916/I Diplomacy
 
1916 My Lady Incog.
 
1915/I The Taint (short)
 
1915 The Ghost of Twisted Oaks (short)
 
1915 Madame Butterfly
 
1915 Nan o' the Backwoods (short)
 
1915 The Seven Sisters
 
1915 All for Old Ireland (short)
 
1915 The Moth and the Flame
 
1915 The Railroad Raiders of '62 (short) ( - uncredited / archive footage)
 
1915 New York and Its People (short)
 
1915 Famous Rulers of the World (short)
 
1915 Famous Men of Today (short)
 
1915 Great Americans Past and Present (short)
 
1915 The Gap of Dunloe (short)
 
1914 The Little Rebel (short)
 
1914 The Idle Rich (short)
 
1914 The Mother of Men (short)
 
1914 Tricking the Government (short)
 
1914 In the Hands of the Brute (short)
 
1914 Captured by Mexicans (short)
 
1914 Come Back to Erin (short)
 
1914 When Men Would Kill (short)
 
1914 The Eye of the Government (short)
 
1914 Through the Fires of Temptation (short)
 
1914 For Ireland's Sake (short)
 
1913/II Uncle Tom's Cabin (short)
 
1913 The Octoroon (short)
 
1913 Perils of the Sea (short)
 
1913 In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (short)
 
1913 In the Power of a Hypnotist (short)
 
1913 When Men Hate (short)
 
1913/II A Daughter of the Confederacy (short)
 
1913 Lady Peggy's Escape (short)
 
1913 The Wives of Jamestown (short)
 
1912 The Shaughraun (short)
 
1912 Ireland, the Oppressed (short)
 
1912 Conway, the Kerry Dancer (short)
 
1912 The Mayor from Ireland (short)
 
1912 The Kerry Gow (short)
 
1912 From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of Nazareth
 
1912 Ancient Temples of Egypt (documentary short)
 
1912 The Poacher's Pardon (short)
 
1912 Along the River Nile (documentary short)
 
1912 The Darling of the CSA (short)
 
1912 Down Through the Ages (short)
 
1912 A Prisoner of the Harem (short)
 
1912 Winning a Widow (short)
 
1912 Tragedy of the Desert (short)
 
1912 Captured by Bedouins (short)
 
1912 An Arabian Tragedy (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1912 Making Photoplays in Egypt (documentary short)
 
1912 Dust of the Desert (short)
 
1912 Missionaries in Darkest Africa (short)
 
1912 Luxor, Egypt (documentary short)
 
1912 The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (short)
 
1912 Captain Rivera's Reward (short)
 
1912 You Remember Ellen (short)
 
1912 Far from Erin's Isle (short)
 
1912/I The Vagabonds (short)
 
1912 His Mother (short)
 
1912 The O'Neill (short)
 
1912 The O'Kalems' Visit to Killarney (documentary short)
 
1912 My Hielan' Lassie (short)
 
1912 Shaun Rhue (short)
 
1912 The Vengeance Mark (short)
 
1911/I Molly Pitcher (short)
 
1911 Arrah-Na-Pogue
 
1911 The Franciscan Friars of Killarney, Ireland (documentary short)
 
1911 The Fishermaid of Ballydavid (short)
 
1911/I The Colleen Bawn (short)
 
1911 Losing to Win (short)
 
1911 When Two Hearts Are Won (short)
 
1911 Rory O'More (short)
 
1911 Special Messenger (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1911 The Romance of a Dixie Belle (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1911 To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1911 Railroad Raiders of '62 (short)
 
1911 The Love of Summer Morn (short)
 
1911 In Blossom Time (short)
 
1911 The Carnival (short)
 
1911 When the Dead Return (short)
 
1911 The Fiddle's Requiem (short)
 
1911 In Old Florida (short)
 
1911 By a Woman's Wit (short)
 
1911 The Lass Who Couldn't Forget (short)
 
1911 A Saw Mill Hero (short)
 
1911 A War Time Escape (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1911 An Irish Honeymoon (short)
 
1911 Sailor Jack's Reformation (short)
 
1911 The Open Road (short)
 
1911 Robbie and the Redskins (short)
 
1911 Her Chum's Brother (short)
 
1911 For Love of an Enemy (short)
 
1911 Last Day of School (short)
 
1911/II Tangled Lives (short)
 
1910 The Stranger (short)
 
1910 The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (short)
 
1910 The Little Spreewald Maiden (short)
 
1910 Her Indian Mother (short)
 
1910 Seth's Temptation (short)
 
1910 A Lad from Old Ireland (short)
 
1910 For a Woman's Honor (short)
 
1910 The Education of Elizabeth (short)
 
1910 The Engineer's Sweetheart (short)
 
1910 The Heart of Edna Leslie (short)
 
1910 The Conspiracy of Pontiac; or, At Fort Detroit in 1763 (short)
 
1910 The Cow Puncher's Sweetheart (short)
 
1910 The Canadian Moonshiners (short)
 
1910 The Perversity of Fate (short)
 
1910 A Colonial Belle (short)
 
1910 The Wanderers (short)
 
1910 The Castaways (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Cliff Dwellers (short)
 
1910 The Seminole Halfbreeds (short)
 
1910 The Aztec Sacrifice (short)
 
1910 The Egret Hunter (short)
 
1910 The Sacred Turquoise of the Zuni (short)
 
1910 The Bravest Girl in the South (short)
 
1910 The Forager (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1910 The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy (short)
 
1910 The Seminole's Trust (short)
 
1910 Her Soldier Sweetheart (short)
 
1910 The Indian Scout's Vengeance (short)
 
1910 The Miser's Child (short)
 
1910/II The Feud (short)
 
1910 Confederate Spy (short)
 
1910/I The Stepmother (short)
 
1910 The Romance of a Trained Nurse (short)
 
1910 The Deacon's Daughter (short)
 
1909 The Cardboard Baby (short)
 
1909 The Law of the Mountains (short)
 
1909 Rally 'Round the Flag (short)
 
1909 The Geisha Who Saved Japan (short)
 
1909 The Governor's Daughter (short)
 
1909 Dora (short)
 
1909 The Cattle Thieves (short)
 
1909 The Girl Scout: or, The Canadian Contingent in the Boer War (short)
 
1909 A Brother's Wrong (short)
 
1909 The Man and the Girl (short)
 
1909 The Hand-Organ Man (short)
 
1909 The Mystery of the 'Sleeper' Trunk (short)
 
1909 The Winning Boat (short)
 
1909 Hiram's Bride (short)
 
1909 The Pay Car (short)
 
1909 The Conspirators: An Incident of a South American Revolution (short)
 
1909 Queen of the Quarry (short)
 
1909 Out of Work (short)
 
1909 The Tom-Boy (short)
 
1909 The Cracker's Bride (short)
 
1909 The Seminole's Vengeance: or, The Slave Catchers of Florida (short)
 
1909 The Old Soldier's Story (short)
 
1909 The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (short)
 
1909 A Florida Feud: or, Love in the Everglades (short)
 
1908 Hannah Dustin: The Border Wars of New England (short)
 
1908 David and Goliath (short)
 
1908 The Scarlet Letter (short)
 
1908 Henry Hudson (short)
 
1908 Way Down East (short)
 
1908 The Days of '61 (short)
 
1908 Florida Crackers (short)
 
1907 Ben Hur (short)
 
1907 The Wooing of Miles Standish (short)
 
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1915 The Irish in America (short)
Dan Murphy
 
1915 All for Old Ireland (short)
Con Daly
 
1914 The Idle Rich (short)
The Manager of the Mine
 
1914 The Mother of Men (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1914 The Eye of the Government (short)
The Detective
 
1914 For Ireland's Sake (short)
Father Flanagan
 
1913 In the Power of a Hypnotist (short)
Gondorza - the Hypnotist
 
1913 Lady Peggy's Escape (short)
Father O'Donnell (as Sid Olcott)
 
1912 The Shaughraun (short)
Conn - the Shaughraun
 
1912 Ireland, the Oppressed (short)
Father Falvey
 
1912 The Kerry Gow (short)
Capt. Sidney Keirnan (as Sid Olcott)
 
1912 From the Manger to the Cross; or, Jesus of Nazareth
Blind Man (uncredited)
 
1912 The O'Neill (short)
 
1911 Arrah-Na-Pogue
Shaun the Post
 
1911/I The Colleen Bawn (short)
Danny Mann
 
1911 Railroad Raiders of '62 (short)
Capt. Andrews
 
1911 The Love of Summer Morn (short)
 
1911 The Fiddle's Requiem (short)
Notary
 
1911 An Irish Honeymoon (short)
The Groom
 
1910 The Little Spreewald Maiden (short)
Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
 
1910 A Lad from Old Ireland (short)
Terry O'Connor
 
1910 The Engineer's Sweetheart (short)
 
1910 The Deacon's Daughter (short)
 
1909 Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good (short)
 
1909 The Seminole's Vengeance: or, The Slave Catchers of Florida (short)
 
1909 The Old Soldier's Story (short)
 
1907 Pony Express (short)
 
Show ShowWriter (8 titles)
1915 Nan o' the Backwoods (short) (scenario)
 
1915 All for Old Ireland (short) (scenario)
 
1914 For Ireland's Sake (short)
 
1913 Perils of the Sea (short) (scenario)
 
1910 Her Indian Mother (short)
 
1910 The Indian Scout's Vengeance (short)
 
1909 The Cardboard Baby (short) (writer)
 
1909 The Old Soldier's Story (short) (writer)
 
Show ShowProducer (2 titles)
1924 Monsieur Beaucaire (producer)
 
1914 For Ireland's Sake (short) (producer)
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
1926 Screen Snapshots, Series 6, No. 14 (documentary short)
Himself
 
1912 The Ancient Port of Jaffa (documentary short)
Himself
 
1912 Making Photoplays in Egypt (documentary short)
Himself
 
1912 The O'Kalems' Visit to Killarney (documentary short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
1915 The Railroad Raiders of '62 (short)
Captain Andrews (uncredited)
 
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