{{Short description|American cinematographer (1859-1911)}} {{Infobox person | image = | imagesize = | name = Arthur Marvin | birth_name = Arthur Weed Marvin | birth_date = {{birth date|1859|5|26}} | birth_place = Warners, New York, United States | death_date = {{dda|1911|1|18|1859|5|26}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States | other_names = | occupation = Cinematographer | years_active = 1897–1911 }}
'''Arthur Weed Marvin''' (May 26, 1859 – January 18, 1911), was an American cinematographer who worked for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in which his brother Harry Marvin was one of the four founders (the others being Herman Casler, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, and Elias Koopman).
He shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911, including ''The Adventures of Dollie'' (1908), the directorial debut of D. W. Griffith, as well as other early Griffith shorts such as ''Pippa Passes'' in 1909.
He directed the short trick film ''Sherlock Holmes Baffled'', which was the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes.<ref name=Tuska>{{cite book |first=Jon |last=Tuska |title=The Detective in Hollywood |location=New York |publisher=Doubleday |year=1978 |page=[https://archive.org/details/detectiveinholly00tusk/page/1 1] |isbn=978-0-385-12093-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/detectiveinholly00tusk/page/1 }}</ref>
His nephew Daniel Warner Marvin II, Henry's son, perished in the sinking of the RMS ''Titanic'' in 1912.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-biography/daniel-warner-marvin.html ''Daniel Marvin'' Encyclopedia-Titanica entry,; info on Arthur Marvin]</ref><ref>[http://www.2020site.org/griffith/bio.html D.W. Griffith's early years; the Marvin family] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215102615/http://www.2020site.org/griffith/bio.html |date=February 15, 2010 }}</ref>
He was born in Warners, New York, US to Daniel Warner Marvin and Ellen Jane Weed. He was married to Sarah E. Babcock. He died in Los Angeles, California.
==Partial filmography== {| class="wikitable" ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film |- |rowspan=2|1900 |''Sherlock Holmes Baffled'' |- |''A Career of Crime''{{cn|date=August 2024}} |- |rowspan=1|1901 |''An Affair of Honor'' |- |rowspan=3|1908 |''The Adventures of Dollie'' |- |''Behind the Scenes'' |- | ''The Kentuckian'' |- |rowspan=3|1909 |''Pippa Passes'' |- |''The Lonely Villa'' |- |''A Sound Sleeper'' |- |rowspan=3|1910 |''The Rocky Road'' |- |''May and December'' |- |''The Lucky Toothache'' |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{wikisource|Author:Arthur Marvin}} *{{IMDb name|id=0555522|name=Arthur Marvin}}
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