Edward Sedgwick
Edward Sedgwick was an American director, actor, writer, and producer whose career spanned the silent era through early television. Born in Galveston, Texas, to stage-performer parents, he began in vaudeville and entered films as a comic actor in 1915, often playing energetic baseball characters.
He moved into directing in 1921, initially making serials and Westerns—including films with Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson—before becoming best known as a comedy specialist.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7803 |
| Birthday | 1891-11-07 |
| Place of Birth | Galveston, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | Edward Martin Sedgwick, Ed Sedgwick, Ed Segwick, Edgar Sedgwick, |
1917
The Haunted Pajamas
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When Richard Hudson receives a pair of silk pajamas from a friend in China, he is unaware that they are bewitched and that whoever wears them will be...
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The Haunted Pajamas
1924
40-Horse Hawkins
7/1
Luke Hawkins, the jack-of-all-trades of the western town of Lariat, falls in love with Mary Darling, the leading lady in a traveling theatrical troupe...
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40-Horse Hawkins
1917
The Yankee Way
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Dick Mason is arrested for defending a girl's honor in a Chicago restaurant brawl, and his father sends him to Lithuania where his family owns a share...
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The Yankee Way
1920
Sink or Swim
9/1
A silent comedy Sink or Swim edited from the 1917 film The Yankee Way (1917)
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Sink or Swim
1916
Married a Year
7/1
They have been married a year and one night the hubby had to stay at the office. On the way home he reads an article in the paper that tells of the ev...
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Married a Year
1919
Checkers
9/1
Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order...
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Checkers
1923
The Thrill Chaser
6.5/2
In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a...
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The Thrill Chaser
1918
Why I Would Not Marry
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Adele Moore pressured by her father to choose a husband among four men consults a fortune teller for advice. The crystal ball warns none are suitable...
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Why I Would Not Marry
1930
Doughboys
6/12
Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he acc...
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Doughboys
1914
The Kid's Nap
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The Kid's Nap
1916
A Lucky Leap
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Fatty leaves his country home to go to the city. Bess, who lives in the city with her mother and her detective father, takes a novel and goes to the p...
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A Lucky Leap
1917
The Varmint
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John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding scho...
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