Bannister Merwin

{{short description|American film director}}

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Henry Bannister Merwin (1873 – 22 February 1922), was an American poet, magazine editor, novelist, film director and screenwriter during the silent era. He wrote as many as 141 films between 1909 and 1921. He was associated with Edison Studios and the London Film Company.{{cite book|author=Anthony Slide|title=A Special Relationship: Britain Comes to Hollywood and Hollywood Comes to Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6tRTCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|access-date=5 May 2019|date=15 June 2015|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-62846-088-9|pages=86–}} Merwin often wrote with his wife, Anne Merwin.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k64KqzJwJvAC&q=anne+bannister+merwin&pg=RA1-PA17|title=The Edison Kinetogram|date=1913|publisher=Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbDbAAAAQBAJ&q=%22anne+merwin%22+bannister&pg=PA111|title=The History of British Film (Volume 2): The History of the British Film 1906 - 1914|last=Low|first=Rachael|date=2013-09-13|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136205859}}

He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States and died in London, England, United Kingdom.