Biography
Edward Dillon (1872 or 1873 or 1879 – July 11, 1933) was an American actor, director and screenwriter of the silent era. He performed in more than 320 films between 1905 and 1932 and also directed 134 productions between 1913 and 1926. He was a native of New York City.Dillon's work on Broadway included acting in Prince Otto (1900), Francesca da Rimini (1901), The Taming of the Shrew (1905), and The Ranger (1907). He left the stage to begin acting in films in 1908, working under D. W. Griffith at Biograph. He was Mary Pickford's first leading man, and he was instrumental in Fay Tincher's developing into a star.Dillon died on July 11, 1933, at the age of 60 in Hollywood, California from a heart attack. His brother John T. Dillon was also an actor.
Filmography
all 142
Movies 142
Director 25
Writer 1
A Proposition in Four Parts (1985)
While Paris Sleeps (1932)
The Nickel Nurser (1932)
Love Pains (1932)
Sob Sister (1931)
Catch-As Catch-Can (1931)
Let's Do Things (1931)
Iron Man (1931)
Thundering Tenors (1931)
Looser Than Loose (1930)
Fifty Million Husbands (1930)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Lilac Time (1928)
Bred in Old Kentucky (1926)
The Dice Woman (1926)
Wandering Papas (1926)
The Drums of Jeopardy (1923)
Broadway Gold (1923)
Women Men Marry (1922)
The Beauty Shop (1922)
A Heart to Let (1921)
Sheltered Daughters (1921)
The Education of Elizabeth (1921)
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920)
The Amateur Wife (1920)
Help! Help! Police! (1919)
Luck and Pluck (1919)
The Antics of Ann (1917)
Might and the Man (1917)
A Daughter of the Poor (1917)
The Heiress at Coffee Dan's (1916)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The Two O'Clock Train (1916)
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1916)
Sunshine Dad (1916)
Only a Messenger Boy (1915)
Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s (1914)
Fatty and the Heiress (1914)
The Alarm (1914)
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
Because of a Hat (1914)
Oh, Sammy! (1913)
A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
A Barber Cure (1913)
The Lady in Black (1913)
The Suffragette Minstrels (1913)
An Indian's Loyalty (1913)
Pa Says (1913)
Almost a Wild Man (1913)
Red Hicks Defies the World (1913)
The Little Tease (1913)
The Power of the Camera (1913)
Love in an Apartment Hotel (1913)
What Is the Use of Repining? (1913)
The Massacre (1912)
Blind Love (1912)
Getting Rid of Trouble (1912)
Mr. Grouch at the Seashore (1912)
Tragedy of the Dress Suit (1912)
An Interrupted Elopement (1912)
The Tourists (1912)
What the Doctor Ordered (1912)
The Would-Be Shriner (1912)
The Speed Demon (1912)
Helen's Marriage (1912)
When the Fire-Bells Rang (1912)
The Fickle Spaniard (1912)
Won by a Fish (1912)
Help! Help! (1912)
Oh, Those Eyes (1912)
A Voice from the Deep (1912)
Hot Stuff (1912)
The Engagement Ring (1912)
With a Kodak (1912)
The Baby and the Stork (1912)
Why He Gave Up (1911)
The Miser's Heart (1911)
The Long Road (1911)
Through His Wife’s Picture (1911)
Josh's Suicide (1911)
The Making of a Man (1911)
The Villain Foiled (1911)
Fighting Blood (1911)
Enoch Arden (1911)
Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
Curiosity (1911)
The Manicure Lady (1911)
Madame Rex (1911)
The Lonedale Operator (1911)
Teaching Dad to Like Her (1911)
Fisher Folks (1911)
What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)
The Italian Barber (1911)
When a Man Loves (1911)
White Roses (1910)
The Lesson (1910)
His Sister-In-Law (1910)
Sunshine Sue (1910)
The Fugitive (1910)
The Banker's Daughters (1910)
A Lucky Toothache (1910)
That Chink at Golden Gulch (1910)
Rose o' Salem Town (1910)
Muggsy Becomes a Hero (1910)
The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)
The Usurer (1910)
An Arcadian Maid (1910)
A Flash of Light (1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
As the Bells Rang Out! (1910)
In the Border States (1910)
The Little Teacher (1909)
The Suicide Club (1909)
The Brahma Diamond (1909)
The Welcome Burglar (1909)
The Reckoning (1908)
After Many Years (1908)
Where the Breakers Roar (1908)
Monday Morning in a Coney Island Police Court (1908)
Deceived Slumming Party (1908)
The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter (1908)
The Black Viper (1908)
The Fight for Freedom (1908)
The Stage Rustler (1908)
The Kentuckian (1908)
At the Crossroads of Life (1908)
At the French Ball (1908)
Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)
The Man in the Box (1908)
The Invisible Fluid (1908)
Mixed Babies (1908)
Thompson's Night Out (1908)
When Knights Were Bold (1908)
The Sculptor's Nightmare (1908)
Hulda's Lovers (1908)
Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker (1908)
Caught by Wireless (1908)
The Boy Detective, or The Abductors Foiled (1908)
Classmates (1908)
Falsely Accused! (1908)
The Nihilists (1905)
The Mystery of the Milk
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GenderMale
Birthday1878-12-31
Deathday1933-07-11 (54 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As Eddie Dillon , Ed Dillon
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