Ed Genung

{{Short description|American actor}}

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Edward Genung (30 August 1881 – 13 July 1944) was an American actor of the silent era notable for being the first actor to play David Copperfield on film - in David Copperfield (1911) and one of the earliest to play Ferdinand on film - in The Tempest (1911).John Glavin (ed), [https://books.google.com/books?id=mpdrgN082GoC&pg=PA209 Dickens on Screen], Cambridge University Press (2003) - Google Books pg. 209Karen E. Laird, [https://books.google.com/books?id=C0irCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207 The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920: Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield and The Woman in White], Routledge (2015) - Google Books[https://thebioscope.net/2012/01/11/charles-dickens-filmmaker/ Charles dickens: filmmaker- The Bioscope website]William Shakespeare, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1k0z5DixXsIC&pg=PA673 The Late Romances], Bantam Classic (2008) - Google Books pg. 673[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL//data/T/Tempest1911.html The Tempest (1911) - Silent Era Database]

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Genung was born in New Albany, Indiana,U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 to

Jones Alfred Genung, a glassworker.1920 United States Federal Census He worked in various films for the Thanhouser Company in 1911. In the summer of 1912, he was appearing in films for the Bison Company, while by 1914, he was acting with the Lubin Manufacturing Company.[https://www.thanhouser.org/TCOCD/Biography_Files/indan3miu.htm Ed Genung] on the Thanhouser Company website

Genung's other film roles include: Phil Nelson - the Messenger's Brother in Messenger No. 845 (1914); Dick in Dick's Turning (1913); Don in Her First Choice (1912); David Copperfield in The Loves of David Copperfield (1911); The Prizefighter / Aviator in The Higher the Fewer (1911), and The Country Boy in Little Old New York (1911).[https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-gertrude-homan-thanhouser/] Gertrude Homan Thanhouser - Women Film Pioneers - Columbia University Libraries