Sidney Olcott

Sidney Olcott
Kelahiran	John Sidney Allcott (1872-09-20)20 September 1872[1] Toronto, Ontario, Kanada
Meninggal dunia	16 Disember 1949(1949-12-16) (umur 76) Hollywood, California, AS
Pekerjaan	Penerbit, pengarah dan penulis skripF
Tahun aktif	1904–1942

Sidney Olcott (20 September 1872 – 16 Disember 1949) merupakan pelakon, pengarah dan penulis skrip kelahiran Kanada.^[1]

Biografi

Lahir sebagai John Sidney Allcott^[2] di Toronto, Olcott menjadi salah seorang pengarah terkemuka dalam dunia perfileman. Dengan semangat dan keinginan untuk menjadi pelakon, Olcott telah mengembara ke Bandar Raya New York ketika muda dan bekerja di teater sebelum menjadi pelakon filem bersama Biograph Studios pada tahun 1904. Dalam masa yang singkat beliau menjadi pengarah filem dan pengerus di Biograph.

Pada tahun 1907, Frank J. Marion dan Samuel Long, dengan bantuan kewangan dari George Kleine, mengasaskan Kalem Company. Olcott ditawarkan kontrak bersama Kalem Company dengan syarat beliau perlu mengarahkan sekurang-kurangnya satu filem setiap minggu. Setelah menghasilkan beberapa filem yang berjaya untuk Kalem studio, termasuk Ben Hur (1907), Olcott menjadi Presiden syarikat.

Olcott mengahwini pelakon Valentine Grant, yang turut menjadi pelakon untuk filem arahan beliau, The Innocent Lie (1916).

Filemografi terpilih

• A Runaway Sleighbelle (1907)
• The Dog Snatcher (1907)
• Bowser's House Cleaning (1907)
• The Gentleman Farmer (1907)
• A Hobo Hero (1907)
• The Pony Express (1907)
• The New Hired Girl (1907)
• The Tenderfoot (1907)
• Off for the Day (1907)
• The Sea Wolf (1907)
• The Parson's Picnic (1907)
• The Book Agent (1907)
• A One Night Stand (1907)
• Who'll Do The Washing (1907)
• Peggy's Camping Party (1907)
• The Wooing of Miles Standish (1907)
• Nature Fakirs (1907)
• The Amateur Detective (1907)
• The Red Man's Way (1907)
• Chinese Slave Smuggling (1907)
• The Spring Gun (1907)
• Nathan Hale (1907)
• The Goldbrick (1907)
• It Was Mother-in-Law (1907)
• The Rival Motorists (1907)
• Bill Butt-in and the Burglar (1907)
• Troubles of a Tramp (1907)
• The Lost Mine (1907)
• Woman Cruel Woman (1907)
• A Dramatic Rhearsal (1907)
• School Days (1907)
• Ben Hur (1907)
• Days of '61 (1908)
• Back to Farm (1908)
• Mountainers (1908)
• Dogs of Fashion (1908)
• Quack Doctors (1908)
• Under the Star Splanged Banner (1908)
• Evangeline (1908)
• The Stowanay (1908)
• College Days (1908)
• The Banan'Man (1908)
• Henry Hudson (1908)
• Way Down East (1908)
• Washington at Valley Forge (1908)
• The Scarlet Letter (1908)
• Captain Kid (1908)
• The Moonshiner's Daughter (1908)
• Night Riders (1908)
• The Under Dog (1908)
• Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1908)
• Kidnapped for Hate (1908)
• Dolly the Circus Queen (1908)
• The White Squaw Man (1908)
• The Man Hunt (1908)
• Lady Audley's Secret (1908)
• Held by Bandits (1908)
• The Little Madcap (1908)
• Mrs Gunness, the Female Bluebeard (1908)
• Dynamite Man (1908)
• The Renegade (1908)
• The New Hired Girl (1908)
• A Gipsy Girl's Love (1908)
• The Walls of Sing Sing (1908)
• The Girl Nihilist (1908)
• Robin Hood (1908)
• The Frontiersman's Bride (1908)
• As You Like It (1908)
• The Great Yellowstone Park Hold Up (1908)
• The Old Sleuth Detective (1908)
• The Padrone (1908)
• The Mystery of the Bride in White (1908)
• The Girl I Left Behind Me (1908)
• Caught in the Web (1908)
• The Half Breed (1908)
• Jerusalem in the Time of Christ (1908)
• David and Goliath (1908)
• Fire at Sea (1908)
• Humpty Dumpty Circus (1908)
• The Railroad Detective (1908)
• Hannah Dustin (1908)
• A Ragged Hero (1908)
• Maggie, the Dock Rat (1908)
• For Love of Country (1908)
• The Molly Maguires (1908)
• Red Cloud (1908)
• The Trail of the White Man (1909)
• A Florida Feud (1909)
• The Girl at the Old Mill (1909)
• The Octoroon (1909)
• The Detectives of the Italian Bureau (1909)
• The High Diver (1909)
• Sporting Days in the South (1909)
• The Making of a Champion Pugilist (1909)
• The New Minister (1909)
• The Old Soldier's Story (1909)
• The Seminomle's Vengeance (1909)
• The Crackers Bride (1909)
• Hungry Hank's Hallucination (1909)
• The Mysterious Double (1909)
• The Fish Pirates (1909)
• The Orange Grower's Daughter (1909)
• The Northern Schoolmaster (1909)
• The Artist and the Girl (1909)
• Love's Triumph (1909)
• Good for Evil (1909)
• The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War (1909)
• A Poor Wife's Devotion (1909)
• A Pig in a Poke (1909)
• A Child of the Sea (1909)
• The Omnibus Taxiclub (1909)
• $5000 Reward (1909)
• The Little Angel of Roaring Springs (1909)
• The Mystic Swing (1909)
• A Priest of the Wilderness (1909)
• Mardi Gras in Havana (1909)
• The Japanese Invasion (1909)
• Famine in the Forest (1909)
• A Soldier of US Army (1909)
• The Escape from Andersonville (1909)
• The Tom-Boy (1909)
• Tickle Mary (1909)
• Factory Girl (1909)
• Traced by Kodak (1909)
• Out of Work (1909)
• The Queen of the Quarry (1909)
• The Conspirators - An Incident of a South American Revolution (1909)
• The Pay Car (1909)
• Hiram's Bride (1909)
• The Story of a Rose (1909)
• Winning a Diner (1909)
• The Winning Boat (1909)
• The Mystery of Sleeper Trunk (1909)
• The Hand Organ Man (1909)
• The Man and the Girl (1909)
• A Brother's Wrong (1909)
• The Girl Scout (1909)
• The Cattle Thieves (1909)
• Dora (1909)
• Pale Face's Wooing (1909)
• The Governor's Daughter (1909)
• Judgement (1909)
• The Geisha Who Saved Japan (1909)
• Rally 'Round the Flag (1909)
• The Law of the Mountains (1909)
• The Card Board Baby (1909)
• A Slave to Drink (1909)
• The Deacon's Daughter (1910)
• The Romance of a Trained Nurse (1910)
• The Man Who Lost (1910)
• The Step-Mother (1910)
• The Confederate Spy (1910)
• The Feud (1910)
• The Fisherman's Granddaughter (1910)
• The Miser's Child (1910)
• The Girl Thief (1910)
• Her Soldier Sweetheart (1910)
• The Seminole's Trust (1910)
• The Girl and the Bandit (1910)
• The Further Adventure of the Girl Spy (1910)
• The Old Fiddler (1910)
• The Forager (1910)
• The Bravest Girl of the South (1910)
• The Sacred Turquoise of the Zuni (1910)
• The Love Romance of the Girl Spy (1910)
• The Egret Hunter (1910)
• Between Love and Duty (1910)
• The Aztec Sacrifice (1910)
• The Seminole Halfbreeds (1910)
• The Cliff Dwellers (1910)
• Friends (1910)
• The Castaways (1910)
• The Wanderers (1910)
• The Navajo's Bride (1910)
• The Miner's Sacrifice (1910)
• Grandmother (1910)
• A Daughter of Dixie (1910)
• A Colonial Belle (1910)
• The Perversity of Fate (1910)
• The Cow Puncher's Sweetheart (1910)
• Leap for Life (1910)
• The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1910)
• The Heart of Edna Leslie (1910)
• The Way of Life (1910)
• A Lad from Old Ireland (1910)
• The Little Spreewald Maiden (1910)
• The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910)
• The Stranger (1910)
• When Lovers Part (1910)
• For the Love of an Enemy (1911)
• The Secret of the Still (1911)
• Her Chum's Brother (1911)
• The Little Sister (1911)
• Grandmother's War Story (1911)
• The Open Road (1911)
• Sailor Jack's Reformation (1911)
• The Irish Honeymoon (1911)
• The Diver (1911)
• A War Time Escape (1911)
• A Sawmill Hero (1911)
• The Lass Who Couldn't Forget (1911)
• By a Woman's Wit (1911)
• In Old Florida (1911)
• The Fiddle's Requiem (1911)
• When the Dead Return (1911)
• The Carnival (1911)
• In Blossom Time (1911)
• Tangled Lives (1911)
• The Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911)
• The Little Soldier of '64 (1911)
• To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson (1911)
• Hubby's Day at Home (1911)
• The Colonel's Son (1911)
• The Romance of a Dixie Belle (1911)
• Special Messenger (1911)
• Rory O'More (1911)
• Losing to Win (1911)
• The Fishermaid of Ballydavid (1911)
• Among the Irish Fisher Folk (1911)
• The Franciscan Friars of Killarney (1911)
• Arrah-na-Pogue (1911)
• Driving Home the Cows (1912)
• The O'Neill (1912)
• His Mother (1912)
• The O'Kalems Visit Killarney (1912)
• Far From Erin's Isle (1912)
• You Remember Ellen (1912)
• A Visit to Madeira (1912)
• The Kalemites Visit Gibraltar (1912)
• Along the Mediterranean (1912)
• The Potters of the Nile (1912)
• American Tourists Abroad (1912)
• Egypt the Mysterious (1912)
• Egypt as it Was in the Time of Moses (1912)
• The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (1912)
• Luxor Egypt (1912)
• Missionaries in Darkest Africa (1912)
• Making Photoplays in Egypt (1912)
• A Pet of the Cairo Zoo (1912)
• An Arabian Tragedy (1912)
• Captured by Bedouins (1912)
• Tragedy of the Desert (1912)
• Winning a Widow (1912)
• Egyptian Sports (1912)
• A Prisoner of the Harem (1912)
• Easter Celebration at Jerusalem (1912)
• Palestine (1912)
• From Jerusalem to the Dead Sea (1912)
• Down Through the Ages of the Desert (1912)
• The Ancient Port of Jaffa (1912)
• Along the River Nile (1912)
• Ancient Temples of Egypt (1912)
• The Poacher's Pardon (1912)
• From the Manger To the Cross (1912)
• The Kerry Gow (1912)
• The Mayor From Ireland (1912)
• Conway, the Kerry Dancer (1912)
• The Wives of Jamestown (1913)
• The Lady Peggy's Escape (1913)
• A Daughter of Confederacy (1913)
• The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp (1913)
• When Men Hate (1913)
• In the Power of the Hypnotist (1913)
• In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan (1913)
• For Ireland's Sake (1914)
• Come Back To Erin (1914)
• When Men Would Kill (1914)
• In the Hands of a Brute (1914)
• The Eye of the Government (1914)
• A Mother of Men (1914)
• The Idle Rich (1914)
• Tricking the Government (1914)
• The Little Rebel (1914)
• The Moth and the Flame (1915)
• All For Old Ireland (1915)
• Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr (1915)
• Seven Sisters (1915)
• The Irish in America (1915)
• Nan O' the Backwoods (1915)
• Madame Butterfly (1915)
• The Ghost of Twisted Oaks (1915)
• The Taint (1915)
• Poor Little Peppina (1916)
• My Lady Incog (1916)
• Diplomacy (1916)
• The Innocent Lie (1916)
• The Smugglers (1916)
• The Daughter of MacGregor (1916)
• The Belgian (1918)
• Marriage for Convenience (1919)
• Scratch My Back (1920)
• The Right Way (1921)
• God's Country and the Law (1921)
• Pardon My French (1921)
• Timothy's Quest (1922)
• The Green Goddess (1923)
• Little Old New York (1923)
• The Humming Bird (1924)
• Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
• The Only Woman (1924)
• Salome of the Tenements (1925)
• The Charmer (1925)
• Not So Long Ago (1925)
• The Best People (1925)
• The White Black Sheep (1926)
• Ranson's Folly (1926)
• The Amateur Gentleman (1926)
• The Claw (1927)

Rujukan

1. "Sidney Olcott - Blog". sidneyolcott.com.
2. "John Sidney "Olcott" Allcott (1872 - 1949) - Find A Grave Memorial". findagrave.com.

• Michel Derrien, Aux origines du cinéma irlandais: Sidney Olcott, le premier oeil, TIR 2013. ISBN 978-2-917681-20-6 (Perancis)

Pautan luar

Wikimedia Commons mempunyai media berkaitan Sidney Olcott

• Olcott filming in Ireland (PDF)
• Sidney Olcott di Pangkalan Data Filem Internet (IMDb)
• (Perancis) Sidney Olcott, le premier œil