Robert W. Paul

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1869-10-04 (74 years old)

Deathday

1943-03-28

Place of Birth

Highbury, London, England, UK

Robert W. Paul

Biography

Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker. He made narrative films as early as April 1895. Those films were shown first in Edison Kinescope knockoffs. In 1896 he showed them projected. That was about the time the Lumière brothers were pioneering projected films in France. His first notably successful scientic device was his Unipivot galvanometer. In 1999 the British film industry erected a commemorative plaque on his building at 44 Hatton Garden, London.

Acting

1897

1896

Fire Brigade

as Director

Production

1896

Waves Breaking

as Director

1903

A Chess Dispute

as Director

1896

1906

The '?' Motorist

as Producer

1896

1896

1896

Royal Train

as Director

1896

1896

Sunderland

as Cinematography

1896

Sunderland

as Producer

1906

1906

The '?' Motorist

as Director of Photography

1902

Delhi Durbar

as Director

1896

1896

Contortionist

as Director

1906

1900

The Derby 1900

as Director

1903

Hammerfest

as Producer

1897

Robbery

as Director

1903

Hammerfest

as Director

1905

1898

Come Along, Do!

as Producer

1897

1900

1897

Robbery

as Producer

1901

1903

The Delhi Durbar

as Director

1898

Come Along, Do!

as Director

1900

The Bout

as Director

1898

1898

The Launch of H.M.S. Albion

as Director of Photography

1901

1900

The Deserter

as Director

1896

1904

1899

1899

A Camp Smithy

as Producer

1909

1905

1900

1898

1899

1898

1910

The Butterfly

as Director

1896

The Derby

as Director

1900

1900

1904

Drat That Boy!

as Producer

1896

1907

1897

1900

Chinese Magic

as Producer

1896

1896

Blackfriars Bridge

as Director of Photography

1896

1897

1904

A Collier's Life

as Producer

1895

The Derby 1895

as Producer

1897

The Young Rivals

as Producer

1897

The Young Rivals

as Director

1901

1900

1902

His Only Pair

as Director

1896

Rocky Shore

as Producer

1905

1896

Trilby Burlesque

as Producer

1902

His Only Pair

as Producer

1903

1896

Fire Brigade

as Producer

1896

Footpads

as Director

1900

Briton vs. Boer

as Producer

-

S.S. Columbia

as Producer

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