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Robert G. Vignola

Robert G. Vignola

Director · Born 1882-08-05 · Trivignano, Veneto, Italy

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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),…

Directed

  1. The Scarlet Letter (1934) — Director
  2. Beauty's Worth (1922) — Director
  3. When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) — Director
  4. Enchantment (1921) — Director
  5. The Perfect Clue (1935) — Director
  6. Déclassé (1925) — Director
  7. Rory O'More (1911) — Director
  8. Straight Is the Way (1921) — Director
  9. Broken Dreams (1933) — Director
  10. The Vampire (1913) — Director
  11. The Girl from Scotland Yard (1937) — Director
  12. Yolanda (1924) — Director
  13. Her Husband's Friend (1914) — Director
  14. The Show Girl's Glove (1914) — Director
  15. Through the Flames (1914) — Director
  16. The Hand of Fate (1914) — Director
  17. The Devil's Dansant (1914) — Director
  18. The War Correspondent (1913) — Director
  19. The Knife (1918) — Director
  20. The False Guardian (1914) — Director
  21. Her Bitter Lesson (1914) — Director
  22. The Hate That Withers (1914) — Director
  23. The Siren's Reign (1915) — Director
  24. The Destroyer (1915) — Director
  25. The Haunting Fear (1915) — Director
  26. The Crooked Path (1915) — Director
  27. The Message of the Palms (1913) — Director
  28. The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913) — Director
  29. The Alien (1913) — Director
  30. Man's Greed for Gold (1913) — Director
  31. A Victim of Heredity (1913) — Director
  32. The Hidden Witness (1913) — Director
  33. The World and His Wife (1920) — Director
  34. Cabaret (1927) — Director
  35. The 13th Commandment (1920) — Director
  36. The Winning Girl (1919) — Director
  37. Adam and Eva (1923) — Director
  38. The Way of a Girl (1925) — Director
  39. The Young Diana (1922) — Director
  40. Experimental Marriage (1919) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. From the Manger to the Cross (1912) — Judas
  2. The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) — Man in Campaign Office
  3. The Black Hand (1906)
  4. The Colleen Bawn (1911) — Mr. Corrigan
  5. Rory O'More (1911) — Black William
  6. Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)
  7. The Vampire (1913)
  8. Shenandoah (1913) — Undetermined Role
  9. The Show Girl's Glove (1914)
  10. The War Correspondent (1913) — Hal Martin - the Star Reporter
  11. An Arabian Tragedy (1912) — Ayub Kashif
  12. A Prisoner of the Harem (1912) — Mahmoud Pasha
  13. The Little Gluers (1912) — Darby O'Drive
  14. Ireland, the Oppressed (1912) — Michael Dee
  15. The Shaughraun (1912) — Harvey Duff
  16. The Prosecuting Attorney (1913) — The Criminal
  17. The Peril of the Dance Hall (1913) — Pablo Florenti - Pepita's Father
  18. The Message of the Palms (1913) — Uncle Tom - the Colonel's Servant
  19. The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913) — Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest
  20. The Alien (1913) — Paola
  21. Railroad Raiders of '62 (1911) — Engineer
  22. When Lovers Part (1910)
  23. The Fiddler’s Requiem (1911) — Dolores' fiance
  24. Captured by Bedouins (1912) — Judge Barnett - the Father
  25. The Fight for Freedom (1908)
  26. Tragedy of the Desert (1912) — The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey
  27. The Padrone's Plot (1913) — Tony
  28. A Sawmill Hazard (1913) — Geoffrey Stern
  29. A Desperate Chance (1913) — Joe Mellon - the Brakeman
  30. Honor Thy Father (1915) — Chick Fenway - a Thief
  31. The Railroad Raiders of '62 (1915) — Railroad Engineer (archive footage) (uncredited)
  32. A Sawmill Hero (1911)
  33. The Wives of Jamestown (1913) — Shamus O’Daly
  34. Lady Peggy’s Escape (1913) — Preston
  35. The O'Neill (1912)