Robert G. Vignola
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 5, 1882
- Died
- October 25, 1953 (aged 71)
- Birthplace
- Trivignano, Veneto, Italy
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. One of the silent screen's most prolific directors, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Born at Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, Vignola left Italy with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 performing in "Romeo and Juliet", with Eleanor Robson Belmont and Kyrle Bellew. He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. In 1907 he joined Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. One of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Sidney Olcott, one of the most successful films of the period. Vignola directed 87 films, most notably The Vampire (1913), sometimes cited as the first "vamp" movie, and Seventeen (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Audrey (1916) and Double Crossed (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), starring Marion Davies, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films include Déclassée (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Clark Gable; Broken Dreams (1933), which received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and The Scarlet Letter (1934), the last film of Colleen Moore. Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953. He lived in a mansion at Whitley Heights owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's mistress Marion Davies was allowed to stay without him at Vignola's mansion, worried that she was having affairs and considering Vignola a trusted companion for her as he was homosexual. He was buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.
Known For
Filmography
The Reason Why
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
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The Perfect Clue
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The Scarlet Letter
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Broken Dreams
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The Red Sword
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Tropic Madness
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Cabaret
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Fifth Avenue
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Déclassé
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The Way of a Girl
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Yolanda
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Married Flirts
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Adam and Eva
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
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Beauty's Worth
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The Young Diana
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Enchantment
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The Woman God Changed
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Straight Is the Way
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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The World and His Wife
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The 13th Commandment
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The Winning Girl
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Experimental Marriage
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More Deadly Than the Male
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The Third Kiss
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An Innocent Adventuress
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The Home Town Girl
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The Heart of Youth
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You Never Saw Such a Girl
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Louisiana
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The Knife
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The Claw
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Women's Weapons
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The Savage Woman
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Madame Jealousy
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The Fortunes of Fifi
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Great Expectations
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Her Better Self
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The Love That Lives
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Double Crossed
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The Hungry Heart
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The Evil Thereof
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Under Cover
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The Black Crook
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The Moment Before
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Seventeen
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The Spider
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The Reward of Patience
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Audrey
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Honor Thy Father
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A Sister's Burden
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The Destroyer
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The Haunting Fear
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The Crooked Path
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The Scorpion's Sting
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The Stolen Ruby
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The Siren's Reign
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The Maker of Dreams
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Don Caesar de Bazan
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The Night Operator at Buxton
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Her Husband's Friend
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The Shadow
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The Show Girl's Glove
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The Cabaret Dancer
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Through the Flames
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The Storm at Sea
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The Hand of Fate
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The Devil's Dansant
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The Barefoot Boy
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Seed and the Harvest
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The False Guardian
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Into the Depths
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The Menace of Fate
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A Midnight Tragedy
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The Man of Iron
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The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
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Her Bitter Lesson
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The Hate That Withers
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The Vampire's Trail
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Primitive Man
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The War Correspondent
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The Scimitar of the Prophet
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The Message of the Palms
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Man's Greed for Gold
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The Alien
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A Victim of Heredity
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The Lost Diamond
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The Hidden Witness
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A Stolen Identity
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The Bribe
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The Vampire
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Rory O'More
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