Hubert von Herkomer(1849-1914)
- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey,
Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful
of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was
widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with
bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with
taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He
commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of
Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the
screen.