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King Baggot
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William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies", "The Most Photographed Man in the World", and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon".
Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947, wrote 18 screenplays, and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman (1925), and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925).
Among his film appearances, Baggot was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913).
Baggot began his career on the stage, in a Shakespearean stock company, and toured throughout the U.S.
While acting in stock in St. Louis in 1909, he was cast as supporting player in the Schubert touring production of The Wishing Ring. When The Wishing Ring closed in Chicago, Baggot returned to New York to join another company. Upon a chance meeting with Harry Solter, who was directing movies for Carl Laemmle at Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP), he was persuaded to go with Solter to the studio. Baggot became interested in the fledgling industry and decided to turn picture player.
As director
Romance of a Rogue
The House of Scandal
The Notorious Lady
Perch of the Devil
Down the Stretch
Lovey Mary
Tumbleweeds
Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman
The Home Maker
The Tornado
The Whispered Name
The Gaiety Girl
The Darling of New York
The Love Letter
Gossip
The Town Scandal
Crossed Wires
The Kentucky Derby
Human Hearts
A Dangerous Game
The Lavender Bath Lady
Kissed
Moonlight Follies
Cheated Love
Nobody's Fool
Luring Lips
The Silent Stranger
As actor
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
My Brother Talks to Horses
Merton of the Movies
The Secret Heart
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Holiday in Mexico
Dangerous Partners
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Swing Fever
Her Cardboard Lover
Jackass Mail
Fingers at the Window
Rio Rita
Come Live with Me
The Big Store
Honky Tonk
Ziegfeld Girl
I Take This Woman
The Philadelphia Story
Gallant Sons
Bitter Sweet
The Ghost Comes Home
Stronger Than Desire
Dancing Co-Ed
The Ice Follies of 1939
Think It Over
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
That Mothers Might Live
Arsène Lupin Returns
Stablemates