Beckwith Havens, an aviator with the New York National Guard, appeared with his Curtiss biplane in the 1912 Thanhouser release of The Capture of New York.
Beckwith Havens
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. A print survives in an archive, but it is not online.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
This has no online copy. Its page says what is known about where a print might be.
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 64 words.
Beckwith Havens was born in 1890. His career was in aviation, in which field he accomplished many “firsts.” During World War I he served as a test pilot. Havens died in New York City on May 7, 1969.
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, “HAVENS, Beckwith.” thanhouser.org/research/people/beckwith-havens/