Robert G. Vignola

Known for DirectingBorn 1882-08-05Died 1953-10-25Trivignano, Veneto, Italy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. 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 performing in "Romeo and Juliet", 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, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. In 1907 he joined Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. One of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Sidney Olcott, one of the most successful films of the period. Vignola directed 87 films, most notably The Vampire (1913), sometimes cited as the first "vamp" movie, and Seventeen (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Audrey (1916) and Double Crossed (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), starring Marion Davies, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films include Déclassée (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. Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953. He lived in a mansion at Whitley Heights owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's mistress Marion Davies was allowed to stay without him at Vignola's mansion, worried that she was having affairs and considering Vignola a trusted companion for her as he was homosexual. He was buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.Read more

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The Home Town Girl

The Heart of Youth

Louisiana

Her Husband's Friend

The False Guardian

The Hate That Withers

Shenandoah

The Scimitar of the Prophet

The Alien

A Victim of Heredity

Ireland, the Oppressed

Captured by Bedouins

The Red Sword

Cabaret

Married Flirts

The World and His Wife

The 13th Commandment

The Winning Girl

An Innocent Adventuress

The Destroyer

The Hand of Fate

Her Bitter Lesson

The Peril of the Dance Hall

A Prisoner of the Harem

The Little Gluers

Tragedy of the Desert

Yolanda

Adam and Eva

The Woman God Changed

The Passionate Pilgrim

Experimental Marriage

The Third Kiss

The Crooked Path

The Haunting Fear

The Show Girl's Glove

The Devil's Dansant

The Hidden Witness

The Fight for Freedom

Straight Is the Way

The Colleen Bawn

Tropic Madness

Fifth Avenue

The Way of a Girl

The Young Diana

More Deadly Than the Male

You Never Saw Such a Girl

The Love That Lives

The Siren's Reign