Edwin S. Porter

Known forThe Great Train Robbery Niobe Bella Donna Laughing Gas The Night Before Christmas

189 credits

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The Eternal City
1915 Director
Sold (1915)
Sold
1915 Director
Zaza
1915 Director
The Morals of Marcus
1915 Director
The White Pearl
1915 Director
Bella Donna
1915 Director
Niobe
1915 Director
5.0
The Prince and the Pauper
1915 Director
When We Were Twenty-One
1915 Director
A Good Little Devil
1914 Director
5.4
Tess of the Storm Country
1914 Director
Hearts Adrift
1914 Director
Such a Little Queen
1914 Director
The Crucible
1914 Director
7.0
His Neighbor's Wife
1913 Director
3.5
The Prisoner of Zenda
1913 Director
4.0
The Count of Monte Cristo
1913 Director
1.0
In the Bishop's Carriage
1913 Director
9.0
A Heroine of '76
1911 Director
7.0
The Lighthouse by the Sea
1911 Director
Sherlock Holmes, Jr. (1911)
10.0
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911 Director
Lost Illusions (1911)
Lost Illusions
1911 Director
10.0
On the Brink
1911 Director
6.2
The Price
1911 Director
Russia, the Land of Oppression (1910)
10.0
Russia, the Land of Oppression
1910 Director
The Colored Stenographer (1909)
The Colored Stenographer
1909 Director
On the Western Frontier (1909)
On the Western Frontier
1909 Director
5.8
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
1908 Director
6.0
A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
1908 Director
Miss Sherlock Holmes (1908)
10.0
Miss Sherlock Holmes
1908 Director
3.6
Cupid’s Pranks
1908 Director of Photography
She (1908)
She
1908 Director
Nero and the Burning of Rome (1908)
Nero and the Burning of Rome
1908 Cinematography
4.6
Fireside Reminiscences
1908 Camera Operator
A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences (1908)
10.0
A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences
1908 Camera Operator
The Gentleman Burglar (1908)
10.0
The Gentleman Burglar
1908 Camera Operator
5.5
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
1908 Director of Photography
5.6
The 'Teddy' Bears
1907 Director
4.7
Cohen’s Fire Sale
1907 Director
6.9
The Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
1907 Director
5.2
The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
1907 Director
5.8
Rivals
1907 Director
6.0
College Chums
1907 Director
5.4
Laughing Gas
1907 Director
8.0
Jack the Kisser
1907 Director
Poor John (1907)
4.0
Poor John
1907 Director
6.3
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
1906 Director
6.3
Three American Beauties
1906 Director
5.2
A Winter Straw Ride
1906 Director
5.5
Getting Evidence
1906 Director
5.3
How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
1906 Director
The Life of an American Cowboy (1906)
3.0
The Life of an American Cowboy
1906 Director
3.9
Life of a Cowboy
1906 Director
7.0
Waiting at the Church
1906 Director
6.0
The Terrible Kids
1906 Camera Operator
4.8
Kathleen Mavourneen
1906 Camera Operator
5.2
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
1905 Director
5.3
The Little Train Robbery
1905 Director
6.1
Coney Island at Night
1905 Director
6.1
The Night Before Christmas
1905 Director
Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H. (1905)
7.0
Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.
1905 Director
4.0
The Miller’s Daughter
1905 Director
5.6
The White Caps
1905 Director
5.2
The Seven Ages
1905 Director
5.0
The Kleptomaniac
1905 Director
5.0
The Watermelon Patch
1905 Director
4.7
The Life of an American Policeman
1905 Director
How Jones Lost His Roll (1905)
5.7
How Jones Lost His Roll
1905 Director
5.7
The Train Wreckers
1905 Director
Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly (1905)
Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly
1905 Camera Operator
6.5
On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride
1905 Camera Operator
The Boarding School Girls (1905)
6.0
The Boarding School Girls
1905 Director
6.3
The Burglar's Slide for Life
1905 Camera Operator
Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police (1905)
Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police
1905 Camera Operator
5.7
I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family
1905 Director
5.5
The Ex-Convict
1904 Director
5.9
European Rest Cure
1904 Director
5.2
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
1904 Director
4.1
"Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride
1904 Director
A Rube Couple at a County Fair (1904)
5.0
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
1904 Director
4.7
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
1904 Director
5.3
Scarecrow Pump
1904 Director
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum (1904)
3.0
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
1904 Director
Parsifal (1904)
9.0
Parsifal
1904 Director of Photography
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige (1904)
3.0
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
1904 Director
Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island) (1904)
Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)
1904 Director of Photography
Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars (1904)
6.5
Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars
1904 Director
4.7
Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards
1904 Camera Operator
Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
1904 Director
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass. (1904)
6.0
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
1904 Director of Photography
6.6
Japanese Acrobats
1904 Director
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland (1904)
7.5
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland
1904 Director
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden (1904)
7.5
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
1904 Director
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships (1904)
10.0
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships
1904 Director
4.0
Battle of Chemulpo Bay
1904 Cinematography
Animated Painting (1904)
10.0
Animated Painting
1904 Director
Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige (1904)
6.2
Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige
1904 Camera Operator
Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business (1904)
5.0
Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business
1904 Camera Operator
Buster Brown and the Dude (1904)
3.8
Buster Brown and the Dude
1904 Camera Operator
4.2
Buster's Dog to the Rescue
1904 Camera Operator
Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter (1904)
5.0
Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter
1904 Camera Operator
5.1
Dog Factory
1904 Camera Operator
Maniac Chase (1904)
6.2
Maniac Chase
1904 Camera Operator
City Hall to Harlem in 15 Seconds, Via the Subway Route
1904 Camera Operator
3.5
Railroad Smashup
1904 Camera Operator
6.1
The Great Train Robbery
1904 Original Film Writer
6.0
Life of an American Fireman
1903 Director
7.0
The Great Train Robbery
1903 Director
4.9
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1903 Director
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island (1903)
5.6
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
1903 Director
5.4
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
1903 Director
4.9
The Unappreciated Joke
1903 Director
4.2
The Messenger Boy's Mistake
1903 Director
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y. (1903)
4.5
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.
1903 Director
4.7
White Wings on Review
1903 Director
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates (1903)
5.0
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates
1903 Director
New York City Dumping Wharf (1903)
4.3
New York City Dumping Wharf
1903 Director
Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action (1903)
5.3
Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action
1903 Director
5.0
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
1903 Director
5.5
The Gay Shoe Clerk
1903 Director of Photography
5.5
What Happened in the Tunnel
1903 Director of Photography
2.7
Electrocuting an Elephant
1903 Director
Panorama of Blackwell's Island (1903)
6.5
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
1903 Director
Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River (1903)
6.5
Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
1903 Director
5.5
Chicago-Michigan Football Game
1903 Cinematography
4.8
Street Car Chivalry
1903 Camera Operator
4.9
Subub Surprises the Burglar
1903 Camera Operator
4.6
A Romance of the Rail
1903 Camera Operator
The Physical Culture Girl (1903)
8.0
The Physical Culture Girl
1903 Camera Operator
The Extra Turn (1903)
4.2
The Extra Turn
1903 Camera Operator
5.5
The Animated Poster
1903 Camera Operator
5.0
Buster's Joke on Papa (I)
1903 Camera Operator
3.0
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)
1903 Camera Operator
6.0
Jack and the Beanstalk
1902 Director
5.5
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
1902 Director
Babies Rolling Eggs (1902)
4.6
Babies Rolling Eggs
1902 Director
5.0
Charleston Chain-Gang
1902 Director
5.2
How They Do Things on the Bowery
1902 Director
4.9
Appointment by Telephone
1902 Director
Capture of the Biddle Brothers (1902)
5.2
Capture of the Biddle Brothers
1902 Director
5.5
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
1902 Camera Operator
5.1
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
1902 Director
5.5
Fun in a Bakery Shop
1902 Director
The Burlesque Suicide (1902)
5.5
The Burlesque Suicide
1902 Camera Operator
The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2 (1902)
5.2
The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2
1902 Camera Operator
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique) (1902)
7.0
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
1902 Camera Operator
Happy Hooligan Turns Burglar (1902)
Happy Hooligan Turns Burglar
1902 Camera Operator
4.0
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
1901 Director
5.4
Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
1901 Director
5.9
Pan-American Exposition by Night
1901 Director
6.2
Panorama of Esplanade by Night
1901 Director
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken (1901)
4.9
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken
1901 Director
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog (1901)
5.4
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
1901 Director
3.8
Another Job for the Undertaker
1901 Director
4.8
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
1901 Director
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce (1901)
5.2
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
1901 Director
Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901)
4.6
Kansas Saloon Smashers
1901 Director
Sampson-Schley Controversy (1901)
4.7
Sampson-Schley Controversy
1901 Director
3.0
The Old Maid in the Horsecar
1901 Director
5.2
Love by the Light of the Moon
1901 Director
Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip (1901)
6.0
Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip
1901 Director of Photography
The Reversible Divers (1901)
6.0
The Reversible Divers
1901 Director
Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle (1901)
6.0
Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle
1901 Cinematography
Life Rescue at Long Branch (1901)
Life Rescue at Long Branch
1901 Director
5.0
Day at the Circus
1901 Director
Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon (1901)
6.5
Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon
1901 Director of Photography
The Esquimaux Village (1901)
5.0
The Esquimaux Village
1901 Director
5.3
A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition
1901 Director
4.8
President McKinley Taking the Oath
1901 Cinematography
4.2
Photographing a Country Couple
1901 Camera Operator
5.3
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
1901 Camera Operator
4.2
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
1901 Camera Operator
5.1
Catching an Early Train
1901 Camera Operator
6.1
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
1901 Camera Operator
5.0
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol
1901 Director
The Martyred Presidents (1901)
3.2
The Martyred Presidents
1901 Camera Operator
Rubes in the Theatre (1901)
Rubes in the Theatre
1901 Director
4.0
Uncle Josh's Nightmare
1900 Director
4.6
Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel
1900 Director
3.6
A Dull Razor
1900 Director
An Animated Luncheon (1900)
5.4
An Animated Luncheon
1900 Director
The Magician (1900)
4.7
The Magician
1900 Director
Ching Ling Foo Outdone (1900)
5.2
Ching Ling Foo Outdone
1900 Director
Faust and Marguerite (1900)
3.9
Faust and Marguerite
1900 Director
5.7
An Artist's Dream
1900 Director
The Mystic Swing (1900)
4.5
The Mystic Swing
1900 Director
Dewar's Scotch Whisky
1900 Director
5.6
The Kiss
1900 Director
5.0
Strange Adventure of New York Drummer
1899 Director