William K.L. Dickson

Career Overview

William K.L. Dickson has 233 screen credits in a career dating back to 1890. Signature works include Les Parisiennes, Annie Oakley, Newark Athlete. 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: 233
Birth Date: 1860-08-03
Birth Place: Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France

Known For

Frequent Collaborators

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (2 collaborations)
Queen Mother Emma of the Netherlands (2 collaborations)
Annie Oakley (1 collaborations)

Credits

directing (173 credits)
- Butterfly Dances
  director
  
  directing
  
  2007
- Annabelle Dances and Dances
  director
  
  directing
  
  1997
- Ten Pickaninnies
  director
  
  directing
  
  1908
- Mr. Hurry-up
  director
  
  directing
  
  1907
- Nabbed by the Nipper
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- An Obstinate Cork
  director
  
  directing
  
  1902
- Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
  director
  
  directing
  
  1901
- English Nell
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Brook Trout Fishing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Warships at Sunset
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Four Warships in Rough Seas
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Tram Journey through Southampton
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Dutch Fishing Fleet
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
  director
  
  directing
  
  1900
- King John
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Man Overboard!
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Flower Parade in Haarlem
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Amann, the Great Impersonator
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Tapping a Blast Furnace
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Launch of the 'Oceanic'
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Fun on a Sand Hill
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- In a German Bath
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- From Monte Carlo to Monaco
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Away Aloft
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- In the Friedrichstrasse
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- London Fire Brigade, Alarm
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Upside Down Boxers
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
  director
  
  directing
  
  1899
- Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII and Count Pecci, No. 1
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Duel to the Death
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- He and She
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII Resting on His Way to His Summer Villa
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII Walking at Twilight, No. 1
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Military Exercise - Aldershot
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Boulevard of Scheveningen
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Grand Canal, Venice
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Dutch Fishing Boats
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Mills from the Zaanstreek
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Maidenhead Junction
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1898
- Place de la Concorde
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Crissie Sheridan
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Fatima
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Has He Hit Me?
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Les Parisiennes
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Bath Scene
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Home Life of a Hungarian Family
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Changing Guard (Berlin)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Firing the Maxim Gun
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- French Military School Exercise
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
  director
  
  directing
  
  1897
- Sound Money Parade
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- American Falls from Luna Island
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- American Falls from Goat Island
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Sandow
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip Passing Over the Mountain
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip's Toast to Hudson
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip Meeting the Dwarf
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip's Toast
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Awakening of Rip
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- View on Boulevard, New York City
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Rip Van Winkle
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Hard Wash
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Dancing Darkies
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- Annabelle in Flag Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- A Watermelon Feast
  director
  
  directing
  
  1896
- New Blacksmith Shop
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- Billy Edwards and the Unknown
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- James Grundy, Buck and Wing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
  director
  
  directing
  
  1895
- Fire Rescue Scene
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Indian War Council
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Band Drill
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Imperial Japanese Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Annie Oakley
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Bucking Broncho
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Chinese Opium Den
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Mexican Knife Duel
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Lasso Thrower
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Hadj Cheriff
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Sioux Ghost Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Buffalo Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Boxing Match
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Rats and Terrier No. 2
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Rats and Terrier No. 3
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Rats and Weasel
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Caicedo (with Pole)
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- The Boxing Cats
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Buffalo Bill
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Leonard-Cushing Fight
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Sandow: The Strong Man
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Trained Bears
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- A Bar Room Scene
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Rat Killing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Chinese Laundry Scene
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Wrestling Match
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Highland Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Carmencita
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Athlete with Wand
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Cock Fight, No. 2
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- The Barber Shop
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Glenroy Bros., No. 2
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Mlle. Capitaine
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- The Cock Fight
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Annabelle Sun Dance
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Ruth Dennis
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Fred Ott Holding a Bird
  director
  
  directing
  
  1894
- Blacksmithing Scene
  director
  
  directing
  
  1893
- Horse Shoeing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1893
- A Hand Shake
  director
  
  directing
  
  1892
- Fencing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1892
- Man on Parallel Bars
  director
  
  directing
  
  1892
- Wrestling
  director
  
  directing
  
  1892
- Dickson Greeting
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Newark Athlete
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Newark athlete. [No. 2]
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Men Boxing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Monkey and Another, Boxing
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Duncan Smoking
  director
  
  directing
  
  1891
- Monkeyshines, No. 1
  director
  
  directing
  
  1890
- Monkeyshines, No. 2
  director
  
  directing
  
  1890
- Monkeyshines, No. 3
  director
  
  directing
  
  1890
camera (25 credits)
- Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1901
- Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1900
- Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1900
- Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1900
- Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1900
- Naval Guns Firing at Colenso
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Panoramic View of Frere Camp Taken from the Front of an Armoured Train, November 29th, 1899
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Tapping a Blast Furnace
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Launch of the 'Oceanic'
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- The Lane on Sunday Morning
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1899
- A Tug in a Heavy Sea
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Me and My Two Friends
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- The Grand Canal, Venice
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Pelicans at the Zoo
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1898
- Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1897
- Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1896
- McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
  director of photography
  
  camera
  
  1896
editing (1 credits)
- English Nell
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1900
production (26 credits)
- English Nell
  producer
  
  production
  
  1900
- Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
  executive producer
  
  production
  
  1896
- Little Egypt
  producer
  
  production
  
  1896
- Billy Edwards and the Unknown
  producer
  
  production
  
  1895
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Caicedo (with Pole)
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- The Boxing Cats
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Sandow: The Strong Man
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Carmencita
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Athlete with Wand
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Cock Fight, No. 2
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- The Barber Shop
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Glenroy Bros., No. 2
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Japanese Dancers
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Mlle. Capitaine
  producer
  
  production
  
  1894
- Blacksmithing Scene
  producer
  
  production
  
  1893
- A Hand Shake
  producer
  
  production
  
  1892
- Fencing
  producer
  
  production
  
  1892
- Dickson Greeting
  producer
  
  production
  
  1891
- Newark Athlete
  producer
  
  production
  
  1891
- Men Boxing
  producer
  
  production
  
  1891
- Monkeyshines, No. 1
  producer
  
  production
  
  1890
- Monkeyshines, No. 2
  producer
  
  production
  
  1890
- Monkeyshines, No. 3
  producer
  
  production
  
  1890
actors (7 credits)
- General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1899
- Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1898
- Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
  Man on left of picture
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1898
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1894
- Horse Shoeing
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1893
- A Hand Shake
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1892
- Dickson Greeting
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1891
sound (1 credits)
- Dickson Experimental Sound Film
  musician
  
  sound
  
  1894