Theodore Osborn Eltonhead wrote the scenarios for certain 1914 Thanhouser films.
Theodore Osborn Eltonhead
A Thanhouser Company writer, credited on 3 Thanhouser films. None is online, and no print of any is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
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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. 69 words.
New Rochelle city directories listed Theodore Osborn Eltonhead’s occupation as that of a reporter in New York City. In 1914 and 1915 his home was on Nautilus Place in New Rochelle. He wrote the scenarios for several Thanhouser films as well as for various films made by other studios.
Note: His surname appeared as “Eltenhead” in some notices.
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, “ELTONHEAD, Theodore Osborn.” thanhouser.org/research/people/theodore-osborn-eltonhead/