Lamar Johnstone
{{Short description|American actor and director (1884–1919)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lamar Johnstone
| image = Lamar-Johnstone.jpg
| caption = Johnstone in 1915
| birth_date = March 15, 1884
| birth_place = Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1919|5|19|1884|3|1}}
| death_place = Palm Springs, California, U.S.
| yearsactive = 1911-1919
| birthname = Edward Lamar Johnstone
| othername = Lamar Johnson or Lamar Johnston
| occupation = Actor
}}
Edward Lamar Johnstone (March 15, 1884 – May 21, 1919) was an American silent film actor and director.
Biography
Image:Dorothy-LuckyHoldUp.jpg in the 1912 comedy The Lucky Hold Up now housed in the Library of Congress, the only one of their films to survive]]
Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Johnstone starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919. He often starred alongside Dorothy Gibson, an actress who survived the sinking of the Titanic.
Johnstone directed three films; one in 1913 called Truth in the Wilderness, starring Charlotte Burton, The Turning Point (1914), and The Unforgiven (1915). In the 1916 serial Secret of the Submarine, Johnstone got to fly Juanita Hansen in a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane.Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum c. 1953 page 121
Death
Johnstone died on May 21, 1919, in Palm Springs, California, his cause of death was heart attack.
Filmography
=As actor=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1912
| rowspan="2"|Short |
| rowspan="3"|1913
| Adolph - the Lady Killer |
| Sapho
| | Short, uncredited, lost film |
| Through a Telescope
| | Short |
| rowspan="3"|1916
| Scott Winthrop | |
| The Secret of the Submarine
| Gerald Morton | rowspan="5"|Lost film |
| The Tongues of Men
| Dr. Lyn Fanshawe (as Lamar Johnson) |
| rowspan="2"|1918
| Martin Stuart |
| The Girl of My Dreams
| Kenneth Stewart (as Lamar Johnston) |
| rowspan="5"|1919
| Carl Granberry |
| The Sheriff's Son
| Brad Charlton | rowspan="3"|release posthumously |
| The Spite Bride
| Arthur Derford (as Lamar Johnston) |
| Wolves of the Night
| Burton Mortimer (as Lamar Johnson) |
| The Lone Star Ranger
| Jeff Lawson | Lost film, release posthumously |
=As director=
| class="wikitable |
| Year
! Title ! Notes |
|---|
| 1913
| |
| 1914
| The Turning Point | |
| 1915
| The Unforgiven | |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0425592|name=Lamar Johnstone}}
- Portrait of [http://www.cyranos.ch/spjohn-e.htm Lamar Johnstone] by Thomas Staedeli
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Category:American male silent film actors
Category:American silent film directors
Category:Male actors from Fairfax, Virginia
Category:20th-century American male actors
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