Edwin S. Porter
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1870-04-21 (71 years old)
Deathday
1941-04-30
Place of Birth
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known As
Edwin Stratton Porter
Ed Porter
Edward Porter
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Edwin S. Porter
Biography
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès, Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). In them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W. Griffith who would expand on Porter's discovery that the unit of film structure was the shot rather than the scene. Porter, in an attempt to resist the new i...
Acting
1982
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
1903
as Policeman
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