Rollin S. Sturgeon Explained

Rollin Summers Sturgeon
Birth Date:	25 August 1877
Birth Place:	Rock Island, (Illinois)
Death Place:	Santa Monica,(California)
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	film director and screenwriter

Rollin Summers Sturgeon (August 25, 1877  - May 10, 1961) was an American film director of silent films ^[1] active from1910 to 1924. He directed 101 films during this period.

Filmography

Director

• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part 1 1910^[2]
• A Little Lad in Dixie (1911)*short
• The Trapper's Daughter (1911)*short
• A Western Heroine (1911)*short
• Her Cowboy Lover
• short
• The Half-Breed's Daughter (1911)*short
• The Black Chasm (1911)*short
• The Heart of a Man (1912)*short
• Justice of the Desert (1912)*short
• How States Are Made (1912) *short^[3]
• The Price of Big Bob's Silence (1912)*short
• The Craven (1912)*short
• Sheriff Jim's Last Shot (1912)*short
• The Greater Love (1912)*short
• The Redemption of Ben Farland (1912)*short
• The Triumph of Right (1912)*short
• The Prayers of Manuelo (1912)*short
• Her Brother (1912)*short
• At the End of the Trail (1912)*short
• After Many Years (1912)*short
• The Redemption of Red Rube (1912)*short
• Too Much Wooing of Handsome Dan (1912)*short
• The Ancient Bow (1912)*short
• A Wasted Sacrifice (1912)*short
• The Road to Yesterday; or, Memories of Patio Days (1912)*short
• The Troubled Trail (1912)*short
• Bill Wilson's Gal (1912)*short
• When California Was Young (1912)*short
• The Spirit of the Range (1912) *short
• Out of the Shadows (1912)*short
• Timid May (1912)*short
• Omens of the Mesa (1912)*short
• Natoosa (1912)*short
• The Hat (1912)
• The Better Man (1912)*short
• A Bit of Blue Ribbon (1913) *short
• The Angel of the Desert (1913) *short
• The Winning Hand (1913 *short
• The Joke on Howling Wolf (1913)*short
• The Smoke from Lone Bill's Cabin (1913)*short
• The Whispered Word (1913) *short
• Polly at the Ranch (1913)*short
• A Corner in Crooks (1913) *short
• When the Desert Was Kind *short
• The Deceivers (1913)*short
• According to Advice (1913)*short
• A Matter of Matrimony (1913) *short
• The Two Brothers (1913)
• Bedelia Becomes a Lady (1913)*short
• After the Honeymoon (1913)*short
• The Power That Rules (1913)*short
• Cinders (1913)*short
• The Sea Maiden (1913)*short
• The Wrong Pair (1913)*short
• What God Hath Joined Together (1913)*short
• The Spell (1913)*short
• The Courage of the Commonplace (1913) *short
• The Ballyhoo's Story (1913)*short
• At the Sign of the Lost Angel (1913) *short
• Big Bob Waits (1913) *short
• Their Interest in Common (1914) *short
• Silent Trails (1914) *short
• Tony, the Greaser (1914) *short
• The Sea Gull (1914)*short
• Captain Alvarez(1914)
• The Little Angel of Canyon Creek (1914)^[4]
• The Sage-Brush Gal (1914)*short
• The Chalice of Courage(1915)
• A Child of the North (1915)*short
• The Lorelei Madonna (1915)*short
• The Woman's Share (1915)*short
• Love and Law (1915)
• Bitter Sweet (1916)*short
• Bill Peter's Kid (1916)*short
• God's Country and the Woman (1916)^[5]
• Through the Wall (1916)
• The Mystery of Lake Lethe (1917)*short
• The American Consul (1917)
• Whose Wife? (1917)
• Edged Tools (1917)
• The Upper Crust (1917)
• The Rainbow Girl (1917)
• The Calendar Girl (1917)
• Betty and the Buccaneers (1917, see video)
• A Petticoat Pilot (1918)
• The Shuttle (1918)
• Unclaimed Goods (1918)
• Hugon, The Mighty(1918)^[6]
• Destiny (1919)
• Pretty Smooth (1919)
• The Sundown Trail (1919)^[7]
• The Girl in the Rain (1920)
• The Breath of the Gods (1920)^[5]
• In Folly's Trail (1920)
• The Gilded Dream (1920)
• Risky Business, co-regia Harry B. Harris (1920)
• Danger Ahead (1920)^[5]
• The Mad Marriage (1921)
• All Dolled Up (1921)
• North of the Rio Grande (1922)
• West of the Water Tower (1923)
• Daughters of Today (1924)

Writer

• 1910 Uncle Tom's Cabin
• 1912 Bill Wilson's Gal
• 1913 The Transition
• 1913 The Ballyhoo's Story
• 1914 Tony, the Greaser
• 1914 Only a Sister

Notes and References

1. Book: Paul C. Spehr. Gunnar Lundquist. Einar Lauritzen. American film personnel and company credits, 1908-1920: filmographies reordered by authoritative organizational and personal names from Lauritzen and Lundquist's American film-index. 1996. McFarland & Company, Inc.. 978-0-7864-0255-7.
2. Book: Hischack. Thomas. American Literature on Stage and Screen: 525 Works and Their Adaptations. 2012. McFarland. 9780786492794. 255. 11 June 2014.
3. Book: Charlie Keil. Shelley Stamp. American Cinema's Transitional Era: Audiences, Institutions, Practices. 2004. University of California Press. 978-0-520-24027-8. 168.
4. Book: Larry Langman. American Film Cycles: The Silent Era. 1998. Greenwood Publishing Group. 978-0-313-30657-0. 92.
5. Book: Alan Goble. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. 1999. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-095194-3. 28.
6. Book: Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. 1918. U.S. Government Printing Office. 998.
7. Book: Leonhard Gmür. Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen. 2013. epubli. 978-3-8442-4601-8. 182.