FILM DIRECTOR

Edwin S. Porter

1870 - 1941

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Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin S. Porter has received more than 310,706 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin S. Porter is the 233rd most popular film director (up from 252nd in 2019), the 1,545th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,715th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Film Director.

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  • 32

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  • 7.73

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  • 2.56

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edwin S. Porter ranks 233 out of 2,041. Before him are Nicholas Ray, Mario Bava, Marco Ferreri, Arthur Penn, Věra Chytilová, and Gus Van Sant. After him are Gabriel Axel, Ruggero Deodato, Terence Young, Jacques Becker, Béla Tarr, and Jafar Panahi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Edwin S. Porter ranks 34. Before him are Pierre Louÿs, Prince Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Charlotte Cooper, Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Louis Vierne, and Alexander Berkman. After him are Nariman Narimanov, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, Sigfrid Edström, Aleksandr Kuprin, E. M. Antoniadi, and Princess Henriette of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1941, Edwin S. Porter ranks 52. Before him are Rudolf Hilferding, Paul-Jacques Curie, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Franz Gürtner, Ernst Lindemann, and Maria Spiridonova. After him are Gaetano Mosca, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karin Boye, Henri Cornet, Guido Adler, and Dmitry Merezhkovsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edwin S. Porter ranks 1,545 out of 20,380. Before him are Lee Miller (1907), Gus Van Sant (1952), Sam Elliott (1944), Chris Cornell (1964), Richard Jenkins (1947), and Jan-Michael Vincent (1944). After him are Edward C. Prescott (1940), Juliet Anderson (1938), Charles Ives (1874), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Ed White (1930), and Helen Hunt (1963).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Edwin S. Porter ranks 61. Before him are Alan J. Pakula (1928), Robert Wise (1914), Barry Levinson (1942), Nicholas Ray (1911), Arthur Penn (1922), and Gus Van Sant (1952). After him are Michael Moore (1954), James Ivory (1928), John Sturges (1910), Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Richard Fleischer (1916), and Robert Aldrich (1918).

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Filmography

The Great Train Robbery
Director
After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.
Dec 7o 19037.012 / 10
Life of an American Fireman
Director
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...
Jan 21o 19036 / 10
Electrocuting an Elephant
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This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
Jan 12o 19032.7 / 10