J. Gordon Edwards

This article is about the film director. For the entomologist and mountaineer, see J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist and mountaineer).

J. Gordon Edwards
Born	June 24, 1867 Montreal, Canada
Died	December 31, 1925 New York, New York, United States
Occupation	Film director Film producer Screenwriter
Years active	1914 - 1924

The tomb of J. Gordon Edwards

J. Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867–December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 to 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox; he still continued to direct until he died in 1925. One of his biggest projects was The Queen of Sheba, a lost silent film which contained a huge chariot race, four years before Ben-Hur. He was the stepgrandfather of director Blake Edwards.

J. Gordon Edwards died in New York City at age 58 and was interred at Kensico Cemetery in a grandiose private mausoleum with a minaret on each side similar to the Taj Mahal.

Filmography

Producer

• A Daughter of the Gods (1916)

Director

• The Adventurer (1920)
• Anna Karenina (1915)
• Blindness of Devotion (1915)
• Camille (1917)
• Cleopatra (1917)
• The Darling of Paris (1917)
• Drag Harlan (1920)
• Madame Du Barry (1917)
• The Forbidden Path (1918)
• The Galley Slave (1915)
• The Green-Eyed Monster (1916)
• Heart and Soul (1917)
• Heart Strings (1920)
• Her Double Life (1916)
• Her Greatest Love (1917)
• His Greatest Sacrifice (1921)
• If I Were King (1920)
• It Is the Law (1924)
• The Joyous Troublemaker (1920)
• The Last of the Duanes (1919)
• Life's Shop Window (1914)
• The Light (1919)
• The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
• Nero (1922)
• The Net (1923)
• The Orphan (1920)
• The Queen of Sheba (1921)
• Romeo and Juliet (1916)
• The Rose of Blood (1917)
• St. Elmo (1914)
• Salome (1918)
• The Scuttlers (1920)
• The She Devil (1918)
• The Shepherd King (1923)
• Should a Mother Tell (1915)
• The Silent Command (1923)
• The Siren's Song (1919)
• The Song of Hate (1915)
• The Soul of Buddha (1918)
• The Spider and the Fly (1916)
• Tangled Lives (1917)
• The Tiger Woman (1917)
• Under the Yoke (1918)
• Under Two Flags (1916)
• The Unfaithful Wife (1915)
• The Vixen (1916)
• When a Woman Sins (1918)
• When Men Desire (1919)
• A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
• Wings of the Morning (1919)
• Wolves of the Night (1919)
• A Woman There Was (1919)
• A Woman's Resurrection (1915)

Writer

• The Queen of Sheba (1921)
• A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
• Blindness of Devotion (1915)

External links

• J. Gordon Edwards at the Internet Movie Database
• J. Gordon Edwards, Broadway credit; IBDb.com