Thomas A. Edison
Production
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Acting Credits
Biography
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first ...
Known For
Horizon
Self
MGM Parade
Self
History 101
Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Self (archive footage)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Extraordinary Voyage
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Filmography
EQUITY 6928
2026
as Self (Archive)
History 101
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Edison
2015
as Himself (archive footage)
The Extraordinary Voyage
2011
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
2008
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edison: The Invention of the Movies
2005
as Himself (archive footage)
Naqoyqatsi
2002
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
1998
as Self (archive footage)
The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America
1995
as Self (archive footage)
The Crash of 1929
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor
1972
as Himself (Archival Footage)
Horizon
1964
as Self
MGM Parade
1955
as Self
The Golden Twenties
1950
as Self (archive footage)
Okay for Sound
1946
The Film That Was Lost
1942
as Self (archive footage)
Guests at the Presentation of Kodacolor at the Home of Mr. George Eastman, Rochester, N.Y.
1928
A Day with Thomas A. Edison
1922
as Self
Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company
1909
as Himself
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
1897