Albert Ward (film director)

'''''Albert Ward''''' (1870-1956) was a British screenwriter and film director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/17607 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | WARD, Albert |access-date=20 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024005949/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/17607 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also play the role of William Shakespeare in the 1914 biopic of the playwright's career ''The Life of Shakespeare''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ball |first=Robert Hamilton |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Shakespeare_on_Silent_Film/ZQqXRktVfx8C?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Ward+silent+films&pg=PA203&printsec=frontcover |title=Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History |date=2013-07-18 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-98084-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ferguson |first=Ailsa Grant |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Shakespeare_Cinema_Counter_Culture/zmV9DAAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Ward+silent+films&pg=PA32&printsec=frontcover |title=Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion |date=2016-06-23 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-04185-4 |language=en}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== '''Director''' * ''The Pleydell Mystery'' (1916) * ''A Member of Tattersall's'' (1919) * ''The Pride of the Fancy'' (1920) * ''Aunt Rachel'' (1920) * ''The Last Rose of Summer'' (1920) * ''Stable Companions'' (1922)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Glynn |first=Stephen |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_British_Horseracing_Film/t5uCDwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Albert+Ward+silent+films&pg=PA29&printsec=frontcover |title=The British Horseracing Film: Representations of the ‘Sport of Kings’ in British Cinema |date=2019-01-05 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-05180-8 |language=en}}</ref>

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