Edwin S. Porter
Directing
April 21, 1870
Died April 30, 1941 (71 years old)
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
2
Acting Credits
139
Directed
Biography
Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès, Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). In them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W. Griffit...
