Edwin Stanley was an actor with Thanhouser in 1915 and 1916 and appeared in films released in 1916.
Edwin Stanley
A Thanhouser Company player, in 2 films you can watch free online.
Watch Edwin StanleyOpens Silas Marner (1916)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
Other Thanhouser films
- 1916The Phantom WitnessLost
- 1916The Spirit of the GameLost
- 1916The Man’s SinLost
- 1916For Uncle Sam’s NavyLost
- 1916The Fear of PovertyLost
- 1916Divorce and the DaughterNo online copy
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
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. 170 words.
Born in Chicago on November 22, 1880, Edwin Stanley early in his career went on the stage, spending three years in dramatic stock followed by five years on the Keith vaudeville circuit. He joined Thanhouser in 1915 and was seen in numerous films released by the studio in 1916. The actor then appeared in The Law of Compensation, for Selznick, Just a Woman, for Julius Steger, and was seen in other films of the era. In 1916, at which time he was with Thanhouser in New Rochelle, he was listed as being 6’ tall, weighing 165 pounds, and having black hair and dark brown eyes. His pastimes included riding, swimming, motoring, and dancing. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and appeared in dozens of films through the 1940s. Edwin Stanley died in Hollywood on December 24, 1944. He was survived by his wife and by his son, who was overseas.
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, “STANLEY, Edwin.” thanhouser.org/research/people/edwin-stanley/