Charles Chaplin & Henry Lehrman, 1914

Henry Lehrman (April 21, 1886 – November 7, 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director and producer. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies.

Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Lehrman emigrated to the United States at a young age and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production directed by D.W. Griffith. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Biograph Studios was a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company, formerly American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, at 807 David Llewelyn Wark "D W" Griffith (January 22 1875 &ndash July 23 1948 was a premier pioneering Academy Award -winning American Film director. He gained the nickname "Henry Pathé," reportedly because he told Biograph he had been sent there from Europe to have a job by France's Pathé Pictures. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This article deals with the Pathé movie company For their music business see Pathé Records. While the executive at Biograph may not have believed him, they nevertheless gave him his first acting work in film, appearing as one of many in a mob scene with another aspiring actor named Mack Sennett. Mack Sennett ( January 17, 1880 &ndash November 5, 1960) was an Academy Award -winning director and was known as the innovator A few years later Lehrman was a successful actor and would make his directorial debut, co-directing a 1911 Biograph production with Sennett. When Sennett left to create his own Keystone Studios, Henry Lehrman would join him, working as an actor, a screenwriter, and as the first director of Charlie Chaplin. Keystone Studios was an early Movie studio founded in Edendale California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by

In 1915, Lehrman established his own film company called the L-KO Kompany to make two-reel comedies for Universal Studios. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Lehrman was notorious for his low regard toward actors, and his willingness to place his actors in dangerous situations earned him the nickname "Mr. Suicide. " Author Kalton C. Lahue noted that bit players and extras actually refused calls from L-KO.

In 1916 Lehrman gave up acting to devote himself fully to directing and producing. In 1920 Lehrman met a young actress named Virginia Rappe and a personal relationship ensued that resulted in their engagement. Virginia Rappe (rʌpeɪ ( July 7, 1891 &ndash September 9, 1921) was an American model and Silent film However, in September of 1921, Ms. Rappe died after attending a private party hosted by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle at a hotel in San Francisco. Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle ( March 24 1887 &ndash June 29 1933) was an American Silent film Comedian The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Arbuckle would be accused of raping her and was charged with her murder; Lehrman used the trial for his own personal publicity. Rape, also referred to as Sexual assault, is an Assault by a person involving Sexual intercourse with or Sexual penetration of another person Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries Eventually Arbuckle was found not guilty.

For the two years following his fiancée's death, Henry Lehrman was virtually inactive in the film business. He went through a short-lived marriage in 1922 to Jocelyn Leigh. ^[1] In 1924 accepted an offer from the Fox Film Corporation to direct for their "Sunshine Comedies" division. Lehrman continued as a successful director until the introduction of talkies at the end of the 1920s. A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a Silent film. He directed two sound films for Fox in 1929, one a short comedy, the other a feature-length production titled "New Year's Eve" starring Mary Astor. Mary Astor ( May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award -winning American Actress. The films demonstrated Lehrman's difficulty adapting to directing with sound and he was dropped by Fox. Two years later he made his final attempt at sound films, writing and directing a comedy short for Universal Studios.

Henry Lehrman died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1946 and was interred in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery next to Virginia Rappe. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California.

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External links

• Henry Lehrman at the Internet Movie Database
• Henry Lehrman at Find A Grave