Edwin S. Porter

Career Overview

Edwin S. Porter has 218 screen credits in a career dating back to 1899. Their work is anchored in the Happy Hooligan Live-Action Collection universe with 1 titles. Signature works include The Great Train Robbery, Faust, When We Were Twenty-One. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 218
Birth Date: 1870-04-21
Birth Place: Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

Associated Universes

Happy Hooligan Live-Action Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

Herbert Prior (2 collaborations)
Marc McDermott (2 collaborations)
Gilbert M. Anderson (1 collaborations)
John Manus Dougherty Sr. (1 collaborations)
Frank Hanaway (1 collaborations)
Adam Charles Hayman (1 collaborations)
Robert Milasch (1 collaborations)
Marie Murray (1 collaborations)
Mary Snow (1 collaborations)
A.C. Abadie (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (2 credits)
- Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
  Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1982
- Life of an American Fireman
  Policeman
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1903
directing (137 credits)
- The Prince and the Pauper
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- Bella Donna
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- Zaza
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- The White Pearl
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- Sold
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- The Eternal City
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- When We Were Twenty-One
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- Niobe
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- The Morals of Marcus
  director
  
  directing
  
  1915
- The Crucible
  director
  
  directing
  
  1914
- Such a Little Queen
  director
  
  directing
  
  1914
- Tess of the Storm Country
  director
  
  directing
  
  1914
- A Good Little Devil
  director
  
  directing
  
  1914
- Hearts Adrift
  director
  
  directing
  
  1914
- The Count of Monte Cristo
  director
  
  directing
  
  1913
- His Neighbor's Wife
  director
  
  directing
  
  1913
- In the Bishop's Carriage
  director
  
  directing
  
  1913
- The Prisoner of Zenda
  director
  
  directing
  
  1913
- The Price
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- Lost Illusions
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- The Lighthouse by the Sea
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- On the Brink
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- A Heroine of '76
  director
  
  directing
  
  1911
- His Mother's Thanksgiving
  director
  
  directing
  
  1910
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  director
  
  directing
  
  1910
- The Attack on the Mill
  director
  
  directing
  
  1910
- Russia, the Land of Oppression
  director
  
  directing
  
  1910
- Faust
  director
  
  directing
  
  1909
- The House of Cards
  director
  
  directing
  
  1909
- On the Western Frontier
  director
  
  directing
  
  1909
- The Star of Bethlehem
  director
  
  directing
  
  1909
- The Colored Stenographer
  director
  
  directing
  
  1909
- Miss Sherlock Holmes
  director
  
  directing
  
  1908
- She
  director
  
  directing
  
  1908
- Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
  director
  
  directing
  
  1908
- A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
  director
  
  directing
  
  1908
- The Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Laughing Gas
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- College Chums
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Jack the Kisser
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Rivals
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Cohen’s Fire Sale
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- The 'Teddy' Bears
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Poor John
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Getting Evidence
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- Waiting at the Church
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- The Life of an American Cowboy
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- Life of a Cowboy
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- Three American Beauties
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- A Winter Straw Ride
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
  director
  
  directing
  
  1906
- The Night Before Christmas
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Life of an American Policeman
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Train Wreckers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Miller’s Daughter
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Watermelon Patch
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The White Caps
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Little Train Robbery
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Boarding School Girls
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- Coney Island at Night
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- How Jones Lost His Roll
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Kleptomaniac
  director
  
  directing
  
  1905
- The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Scarecrow Pump
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- The Ex-Convict
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- "Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- European Rest Cure
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Fighting the Flames, Dreamland
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Japanese Acrobats
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
  director
  
  directing
  
  1904
- The Great Train Robbery
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- The Messenger Boy's Mistake
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- The Unappreciated Joke
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- White Wings on Review
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- New York City Dumping Wharf
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Panorama of Blackwell's Island
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Life of an American Fireman
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- Electrocuting an Elephant
  director
  
  directing
  
  1903
- How They Do Things on the Bowery
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Jack and the Beanstalk
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Appointment by Telephone
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Charleston Chain-Gang
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Babies Rolling Eggs
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Capture of the Biddle Brothers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Panorama of Esplanade by Night
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Martyred Presidents
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Pan-American Exposition by Night
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Day at the Circus
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Life Rescue at Long Branch
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Reversible Divers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Sampson-Schley Controversy
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Esquimaux Village
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Another Job for the Undertaker
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Love by the Light of the Moon
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Kansas Saloon Smashers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- The Old Maid in the Horsecar
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- A Dull Razor
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Faust and Marguerite
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- An Artist's Dream
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- The Kiss
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Uncle Josh's Nightmare
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- The Magician
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Ching Ling Foo Outdone
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- An Animated Luncheon
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- The Mystic Swing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Dewar's Scotch Whisky
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Strange Adventure of New York Drummer
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
writing (7 credits)
- The Crucible
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1914
- Lost Illusions
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1911
- The House of Cards
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1909
- She
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1908
- The Gentleman Burglar
  scenario writer
  
  writing
  
  1908
- The Great Train Robbery
  original film writer
  
  writing
  
  1904
- The Great Train Robbery
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1903
camera (61 credits)
- Tess of the Storm Country
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1914
- A Good Little Devil
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1914
- Hearts Adrift
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1914
- The Count of Monte Cristo
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1913
- The Gentleman Burglar
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1908
- A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1908
- Cupid’s Pranks
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1908
- Fireside Reminiscences
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1908
- Getting Evidence
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1906
- Kathleen Mavourneen
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1906
- How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1906
- The Terrible Kids
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1906
- Three American Beauties
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1906
- A Winter Straw Ride
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1906
- The Night Before Christmas
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1905
- Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1905
- Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1905
- The Burglar's Slide for Life
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1905
- On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1905
- How Jones Lost His Roll
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1905
- Parsifal
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1904
- City Hall to Harlem in 15 Seconds, Via the Subway Route
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Railroad Smashup
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Maniac Chase
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Dog Factory
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Buster Brown and the Dude
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Buster's Dog to the Rescue
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Animated Painting
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1904
- Buster's Joke on Papa (II)
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- The Great Train Robbery
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1903
- Buster's Joke on Papa (I)
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- What Happened in the Tunnel
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1903
- The Animated Poster
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- A Romance of the Rail
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- The Physical Culture Girl
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- The Gay Shoe Clerk
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1903
- Subub Surprises the Burglar
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- Street Car Chivalry
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1903
- Electrocuting an Elephant
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1903
- Jack and the Beanstalk
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1902
- Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- The Burlesque Suicide
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- Fun in a Bakery Shop
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1902
- Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Catching an Early Train
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1901
- What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Photographing a Country Couple
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1901
- The Finish of Bridget McKeen
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  1901
editing (1 credits)
- The Count of Monte Cristo
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1913
production (5 credits)
- Sunshine Sue
  producer
  
  production
  
  1910
- A Child of the Ghetto
  producer
  
  production
  
  1910
- Hansel and Gretel
  producer
  
  production
  
  1909
- The Cord of Life
  producer
  
  production
  
  1909
- The Great Train Robbery
  producer
  
  production
  
  1903
crew (5 credits)
- Nero and the Burning of Rome
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1908
- Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1908
- Battle of Chemulpo Bay
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1904
- Chicago-Michigan Football Game
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1903
- President McKinley Taking the Oath
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1901