Colin Campbell (director)

{{short description|American film director}} {{other people||Colin Campbell (disambiguation){{!}}Colin Campbell}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Colin Campbell | image = Colin Campbell film director.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1859|10|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = Scotland, United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|1928|8|26|1859|10|11|df=yes}} | death_place = Hollywood, California, United States | years_active = 1911–1924 | occupation = Film director }} '''James Colin Campbell''' (11 October 1859 – 26 August 1928) was a film director, actor and screenwriter.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Greenwood Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdEPgRJyVPIC&q=colin+campbell+a+wise+old+elephant&pg=PA65|date=1999|title=Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema|author=McCaffrey, Donald W.|author2=Jacobs, Christopher P.|isbn = 9780313303456}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13615350/james-colin-campbell/ |title=James Colin Campbell |work=Newspapers.com |date=27 August 1928 |page=1 |access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref> He directed more than 170 American films between 1911 and 1924; and wrote scripts for 60 films between 1911 and 1922. He was born in Scotland, and died in Hollywood, California.

Campbell married actress Blanche Crozier on March 2, 1912.<ref>California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1830-1980. California Department of Public Health, courtesy of www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com</ref>

==Selected filmography== [[File:A wise old elephant (1913).jpg|thumb|An elephant picks up a basket with its trunk. Set photograph from the film ''A Wise Old Elephant'' directed by Colin Campbell (1913), Margaret Herrick Library.]] {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Brown of Harvard'' (1911) * ''An Assisted Elopement'' (1912) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1912) * ''Alas! Poor Yorick!'' (1913) * ''A Wise Old Elephant'' (1913) * ''Wamba A Child of the Jungle'' (1913) * ''The Spoilers'' (1914) * ''Shotgun Jones'' (1914) * ''Chip of the Flying U'' (1914) * ''The Rosary'' (1915) * ''The Carpet from Bagdad'' (1915) * ''Sweet Alyssum'' (1915) * ''Tillie's Tomato Surprise'' (1915) * ''Thou Shalt Not Covet'' (1916) * ''The Garden of Allah'' (1916) * ''Gloria's Romance'' (1916) * ''The Crisis'' (1916) * ''Beware of Strangers'' (1917) * ''Who Shall Take My Life?'' (1917) * ''The Sea Flower'' (1918) * ''The City of Purple Dreams'' (1918) * ''The Yellow Dog'' (1918) * ''The Still Alarm'' (1918) * ''The Beauty Market'' (1919) * ''The Railroader'' (1919) * ''The Thunderbolt'' (1919) * ''Moon Madness'' (1920) * ''When Dawn Came'' (1920) * ''The Corsican Brothers'' (1920) * ''The First Born'' (1921) * ''Where Lights Are Low'' (1921) * ''The Lure of Jade'' (1921) * ''The Swamp'' (1921) * ''A Man of Stone'' (1921) * "Black Roses" (1921) * ''The World's a Stage'' (1922) * ''The Buster'' (1923) * ''Three Who Paid'' (1923) * ''The Bowery Bishop'' (1924) * ''The White Monkey'' (1925) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Colin Campbell (director)}} * {{wikisource author-inline|James Colin Campbell}} *{{IMDb name|id=0132324|name=Colin Campbell}}

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