Arthur Ellery worked with Thanhouser circa 1912-1916.
Arthur Ellery
A Thanhouser Company director, credited on 40 Thanhouser films, 1 of which you can watch free online.
Watch a film Arthur Ellery directedOpens Mme. Blanche, Beauty Doctor (1915)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
Directed · 37
Other Thanhouser films
- 1914A Rural RomanceLost
- 1914The Belle of the SchoolLost
- 1914The Keeper of the LightLost
- 1914His Winning WayLost
- 1914The Master HandNo online copy
- 1914The Final TestLost
- 1914The Harvest of RegretsLost
- 1914The Balance of PowerLost
- 1914The One Who CaredLost
- 1914The Touch of a Little HandLost
- 1914The Face at the WindowLost
- 1914The Dead LineLost
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- 1914When Vice ShudderedLost
- 1914Seeds of JealousyLost
- 1915And He Never KnewLost
- 1915The Actor and the RubeLost
- 1915Big Brother BillLost
- 1915The Handicap of BeautyLost
- 1915Movie FansLost
- 1915A Scientific MotherLost
- 1915Ferdie Fink’s FlirtationsLost
- 1915The House that Jack MovedLost
- 1915It’s an ILL WindLost
- 1915Truly Rural TypesLost
- 1915His Guardian AutoLost
- 1915Ebenezer ExplainsLost
- 1915Little HermanLost
- 1915The Stolen AnthuriumLost
- 1915The Silent Co-EdLost
- 1915Dot on the Day Line BoatLost
- 1915P. Henry Jenkins and MarsLost
- 1915Getting the Gardener’s GoatNo online copy
- 1915A Plugged NickelLost
- 1915Gussie, the Graceful Life GuardLost
- 1916Reforming Rubbering RosieLost
- 1916Pansy Post, Protean PlayerLost
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Acted · 3
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Wrote · 1
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From the encyclopedia
The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 185 words.
Arthur Ellery was born in 1870. He followed an early career on the stage. Later, he was in films with Lubin, after which he acted in Thanhouser films during the 1912-1916 period. In 1914 and 1915 he directed many Princess and Falstaff films for Thanhouser.
The New Rochelle Pioneer, December 26, 1914, carried this notice: “Arthur Ellery, after a vacation of a month, has returned to resume the direction of the Princess playlets. He began Monday.” The Princess films listed below in the Thanhouser Filmography: are ones for which his direction has been verified with contemporary sources. Undoubtedly, he directed others as well.
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The New Rochelle Pioneer, June 3, 1916, stated that he was among nearly two dozen Thanhouser players, directors, and cameramen who were dismissed by the studio on Saturday morning, May 27, 1916, at a time when the outlook for the Thanhouser Film Corporation was uncertain. His wife, who was known as Marie Rainford in addition to her married name, was an actress with Thanhouser. Arthur Ellery died on August 27, 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “ELLERY, Arthur.” thanhouser.org/research/people/arthur-ellery/