
Robert G. Vignola
Biography
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1882-08-05
Place of Birth
Trivignano, Veneto, Italy
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Over the Hills to the Poor House
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Shenandoah
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The Padrone's Plot
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The Show Girl's Glove
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The War Correspondent
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The Vampire
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An Arabian Tragedy
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A Prisoner of the Harem
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The Little Gluers
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Ireland, the Oppressed
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A Desperate Chance
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The Prosecuting Attorney
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The Shaughraun
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The Message of the Palms
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A Sawmill Hazard
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The Peril of the Dance Hall
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The Scimitar of the Prophet
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The Alien
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Honor Thy Father
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
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The Black Hand
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Railroad Raiders of '62
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From the Manger to the Cross
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The Lad from Old Ireland
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The Colleen Bawn
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A Sawmill Hero
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Captured by Bedouins
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The Fiddler’s Requiem
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When Lovers Part
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Rory O'More
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The Fight for Freedom
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Tragedy of the Desert
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The Wives of Jamestown
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Lady Peggy’s Escape
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The O'Neill
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Crew
The Shadow
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Primitive Man
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Her Husband's Friend
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The Cabaret Dancer
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Through the Flames
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The Show Girl's Glove
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The Storm at Sea
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The Devil's Dansant
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The Hand of Fate
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The War Correspondent
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The Fortunes of Fifi
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The Knife
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Into the Depths
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The Menace of Fate
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The False Guardian
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A Midnight Tragedy
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The Barefoot Boy
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Seed and the Harvest
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The Evil Thereof
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Her Bitter Lesson
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The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
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The Hate That Withers
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The Man of Iron
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The Stolen Ruby
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The Scorpion's Sting
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A Sister's Burden
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Honor Thy Father
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The Destroyer
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The Crooked Path
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The Siren's Reign
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The Haunting Fear
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Don Caesar de Bazan
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The Maker of Dreams
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The Vampire
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The Vampire's Trail
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The Alien
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The Message of the Palms
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The Scimitar of the Prophet
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Man's Greed for Gold
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A Victim of Heredity
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The Lost Diamond
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The Hidden Witness
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A Stolen Identity
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The Bribe
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The Night Operator at Buxton
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The Scarlet Letter
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
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The World and His Wife
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The Perfect Clue
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Beauty's Worth
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Great Expectations
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Rory O'More
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Broken Dreams
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Cabaret
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The 13th Commandment
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The Winning Girl
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Enchantment
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Déclassé
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Her Better Self
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Adam and Eva
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The Claw
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The Way of a Girl
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
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Under Cover
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The Young Diana
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Experimental Marriage
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Tropic Madness
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The Love That Lives
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The Black Crook
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Yolanda
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Straight Is the Way
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The Woman God Changed
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The Passionate Pilgrim
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Married Flirts
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The Moment Before
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Fifth Avenue
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Seventeen
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Women's Weapons
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The Spider
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