Years active 1906–1937 Role Actor | Name Robert Vignola | |
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Full Name Rocco Giuseppe Vignola Born August 5, 1882 ( 1882-08-05 ) Trivigno, Basilicata, Italy Occupation Actor, Screenwriter and Film director Died October 25, 1953, Hollywood, California, United States Movies The Scarlet Letter, When Knighthood Was in Fl, From the Manger to the Cross, Enchantment, Married Flirts Similar People Sidney Olcott, Gene Gauntier, Forrest Stanley, Ethel Clayton, Pauline Frederick | ||
Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 - October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. One of the silent screen's most prolific directors, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era.
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Biography
Born at Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, Vignola left Italy with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 in the theatrical show "Romeo and Juliet", performing with Eleanor Robson Belmont and Kyrle Bellew.
He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company. A year later, he became part of Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. As an actor, one of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), one of the most successful films of the period.
As a director, he directed 87 films, some of which have been lost. Some examples are The Vampire (1913), sometimes cited as the first "vamp" movie, and Seventeen (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. Other films include the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), Declassee (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Clark Gable, Broken Dreams (1933), which received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and The Scarlet Letter (1934), the last film of Colleen Moore.
He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Audrey (1916) and Double Crossed (1917), both lost films.
Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953 and was buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.
Actor
Director
Filmography
Director
1937
The Girl from Scotland Yard (as Robert Vignola)
1935
The Perfect Clue (as Robert Vignola)
1934
The Scarlet Letter
1933
Broken Dreams (as Robert Vignola)
1929
The Red Sword
1928
Tropic Madness
1927
Cabaret
1926
Fifth Avenue
1925
The Way of a Girl
1925
Déclassé
1924
Married Flirts
1924
Yolanda
1923
Adam and Eva
1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
The Young Diana (co-director)
1922
Beauty's Worth
1921
Enchantment
1921
The Woman God Changed
1921
Straight Is the Way
1921
The Passionate Pilgrim
1920
The World and His Wife
1920
The 13th Commandment
1919
More Deadly Than the Male
1919
His Official Fiancée
1919
The Third Kiss
1919
The Heart of Youth
1919
Louisiana
1919
An Innocent Adventuress
1919
The Home Town Girl
1919
The Woman Next Door
1919
Experimental Marriage
1919
The Winning Girl
1919
You Never Saw Such a Girl
1918
Women's Weapons
1918
The Girl Who Came Back
1918
The Savage Woman (uncredited)
1918
The Claw
1918
The Reason Why
1918
The Knife
1918
Madame Jealousy
1917
The Hungry Heart
1917
Double Crossed
1917
The Love That Lives
1917
Her Better Self
1917
The Fortunes of Fifi
1917
Great Expectations
1916
Seventeen
1916
The Reward of Patience
1916
Under Cover
1916
The Evil Thereof
1916
The Moment Before
1916
Audrey (as Robert Vignola)
1916
The Spider
1916
The Black Crook
1915
The Luring Lights
1915
The Pretenders
1915
The Vanderhoff Affair
1915
The Maker of Dreams (Short)
1915
Don Caesar de Bazan (Short)
1915
The Crooked Path (Short)
1915
Honor Thy Father (Short)
1915
The Haunting Fear (Short)
1915
A Sister's Burden (Short)
1915
The Destroyer (Short)
1915
The Haunted House of Wild Isle (Short)
1915
The Siren's Reign (Short)
1915
The Night Operator at Buxton (Short)
1915
Barriers Swept Aside (Short)
1915
In the Hands of the Jury (Short)
1915
The Stolen Ruby (Short)
1915
The Scorpion's Sting (Short)
1914
The Hate That Withers (Short)
1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet (Short)
1914
Her Bitter Lesson (Short)
1914
The Man of Iron (Short)
1914
The Hazards of Helen
1914
A Midnight Tragedy (Short)
1914
The Menace of Fate (Short)
1914
The False Guardian (Short)
1914
Seed and the Harvest (Short)
1914
The Dancer (Short)
1914
The Barefoot Boy (Short)
1914
Into the Depths (Short)
1914
The Devil's Dansant (Short)
1914
The Hand of Fate (Short)
1914
The Storm at Sea (Short)
1914
The Vampire's Trail (Short)
1914
In Wolf's Clothing (Short)
1914
Through the Flames (Short)
1914
The Show Girl's Glove (Short)
1914
The Dance of Death (Short)
1914
The Cabaret Dancer (Short)
1914
The Shadow (Short)
1914
The Hand Print Mystery (Short)
1914
Her Husband's Friend (Short)
1913
Primitive Man (Short)
1913
The Vampire (Short)
1913
The Bribe (Short)
1913
The Smuggler (Short)
1913
The Lost Diamond (Short)
1913
A Stolen Identity (Short)
1913
The Hidden Witness (Short)
1913
A Victim of Heredity (Short)
1913
Man's Greed for Gold (Short)
1913
The Alien (Short)
1913
The Scimitar of the Prophet (Short)
1913
Prisoners of War (Short)
1913
The War Correspondent (Short)
1913
The Message of the Palms (Short)
1911
Rory O'More (Short)
Actor
1915
The Vanderhoff Affair as
Dr. Luchow
1915
The Maker of Dreams (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1915
The Crooked Path (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1915
Honor Thy Father (Short) as
Chick Fenway - a Thief
1915
In the Hands of the Jury (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1915
The Stolen Ruby (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1915
The Scorpion's Sting (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914
A Midnight Tragedy (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914
The Menace of Fate (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914
The False Guardian (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914
The Dancer (Short) as
De Forrest - a Millionaire
1914
The Devil's Dansant (Short)(unconfirmed, uncredited)
1914
The Hand of Fate (Short) as
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed)
1914
The Show Girl's Glove (Short) as
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1913
The Octoroon (Short) as
Wahnotte - an Indian
1913
The Padrone's Plot (Short) as
Tony (as Robert Vignola)
1913
The Vampire (Short) as
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1913
The Hardest Way (Short) as
Bud's Boss
1913
Shenandoah (Short) as
Undetermined Role
1913
The River Pirates (Short) as
Caesar - a Secret Agent of the Pirates
1913
The Alien (Short) as
Paola (as Robert Vignola)
1913
The Fire-Fighting Zouaves (Short)
1913
The Scimitar of the Prophet (Short) as
Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest
1913
Prisoners of War (Short) as
Robert Vigron - the Old Veteran
1913
The War Correspondent (Short) as
Hal Martin - the Star Reporter
1913
The Message of the Palms (Short) as
Uncle Tom - the Colonel's Servant
1913
The Peril of the Dance Hall (Short) as
Pablo Florenti - Pepita's Father
1913
Lady Peggy's Escape (Short) as
Preston - a Soldier
1913
The Prosecuting Attorney (Short) as
The Criminal
1913
A Desperate Chance (Short) as
Joe Mellon - the Brakeman
1913
A Sawmill Hazard (Short) as
Geoffrey Stern
1913
The Wives of Jamestown (Short) as
Shamus O'Daly
1912
The Shaughraun (Short) as
Harvey Duff
1912
Ireland, the Oppressed (Short) as
Michael Dee
1912
The Kerry Gow (Short) as
Darby O'Drive
1912
From the Manger to the Cross as
Judas
1912
Down Through the Ages (Short) as
Count Maspero / Herbor
1912
A Prisoner of the Harem (Short) as
Mahmoud Pasha
1912
Tragedy of the Desert (Short) as
The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey
1912
Captured by Bedouins (Short) as
Judge Barnett - the Father
1912
An Arabian Tragedy (Short) as
Ayub Kashif
1912
Missionaries in Darkest Africa (Short) as
Rev. Elbert Lawrence
1912
The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert (Short) as
Isma'il - Sheik of the Dervishes
1912
The O'Neill (Short)
1911
Arrah-Na-Pogue as
Michael Feeny
1911
The Colleen Bawn (Short) as
Mr. Corrigan
1911
Rory O'More (Short) as
Black William
1911
Railroad Raiders of '62 (Short) as
Engineer
1911
The Love of Summer Morn (Short)
1911
The Fiddle's Requiem (Short) as
Dolores' fiance
1911
A Saw Mill Hero (Short)
1911
A War Time Escape (Short)
1910
The Stranger (Short) as
The Stranger
1910
The Roses of the Virgin (Short) as
Pierre Lolliard
1910
A Lad from Old Ireland (Short) as
Man in Campaign Office
1910
A Colonial Belle (Short)
1909
The Cardboard Baby (Short)
1908
The Fight for Freedom (Short)
1908
The Kentuckian (Short)
1908
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (Short)
1907
Pony Express (Short)
1906
The Black Hand (Short) as
The Extortionist (uncredited)
Writer
1915
Don Caesar de Bazan (Short) (scenario)
1914
The Barefoot Boy (Short)
1914
The Vampire's Trail (Short)
1914
The Beast (Short)
1914
The Dance of Death (Short) (scenario)
1913
The Vampire (Short) (scenario)
Self
1912
The Ancient Port of Jaffa (Documentary short) as
Self
Archive Footage
1915
The Railroad Raiders of '62 (Short) as
Railroad Engineer (uncredited)
References
Robert G. Vignola Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA