Oscar A. C. Lund
{{short description|Swedish-born American film director}}
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| birth_name = Oskar August Konstantin Lund{{cite web | url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=59873 | title=Oscar Lund - SFDB | date=21 May 1885 }}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|05|21|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Gothenburg, Sweden
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|05|02|1885|05|21|mf=y}}
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| burial_place = Skogskyrkogården, Stockholm
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| occupation = actor, screenwriter and director
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| known_for = silent films
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Oscar Augustus Constantine Lund (May 21, 1885 – May 2, 1963) was a Swedish-born silent film actor, screenwriter and director of the American and Swedish motion picture industry.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4YHAQAAIAAJ |title=Film Year Book 1922-1923 |publisher=Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |year=1922 |location=New York, NY |pages=82, 398 |language=En}}
Early life
Oscar A. C. Lund was born May 21, 1885, in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Swedish actor and theater director Carl Ludvig Lund (1858–1893). He emigrated in 1900 to the United States.
Career
Lund joined the burgeoning motion picture industry, directing his first film in 1912 titled The Wager. The following year, Lund filmed The Great Unknown in Canada.
Lund also wrote the screenplay as well as acted in many of the films he directed. In 1917 he wrote Mother Love and the Law based on a real life child-custody case in Illinois.{{Cite web |title=Mother Love and the Law |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/15803 |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The First 100 Years 1893–1993}}
File:Still from 1913 film Lady Babbie with actors Barbara Tennant and O. A. C. Lund.jpeg and Lund in Lady Babbie]]
Between 1912 and 1924, Lund directed more than 60 films in the United States. These included the first feature film made by the New Jersey–based U.S. division of the French Éclair Film Company{{Cite web |last=Bowers |first=Q. David |date=1995-01-01 |title=LUND, O.A.C. |url=https://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Biography_Files/5ewe4_.htm |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History}} in 1914 titled Into the Wilderness. He was a director and writer for Together (1918), The Nature Girl (1918) and Peg of the Pirates (1918).{{Cite web |title=O. A. C. Lund |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/118794-O-A-C-Lund?isMiscCredit=False |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=AFI {{!}} Catalog}} He frequently worked with director and screenwriter B. A. Rolfe (1879–1956) and with the British actress Barbara Tennant (1892–1982), directing her in more than half a dozen films.{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Kevin |date=1987 |title=A World across from Broadway II: Filmography of the World Film Corporation, 1913-1922 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3815087 |journal=Film History |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=163–186 |jstor=3815087 |issn=0892-2160}}
Lund was a member of the New York brank of the Motion Picture Directors Association and served as Outer Guard in 1922.
Lund returned to Sweden in 1931, and to filmmaking, directing his first and only talkie, a Swedish language film titled Kärlek och dynamit (1933).{{Cite web|url=http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/Item/?type=person&itemid=59873|title=Oscar Lund – The Swedish Film Database|date=21 May 1885 |access-date=2019-08-15}}
Lund died May 2, 1963.
Selected filmography
- Lady Babbie (1913)
- The Sons of a Soldier (1913)
- Her New York (1917){{Cite AV media |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6085/default.html |title=Her New York |date=1917 |last=Lund |first=Oscar |last2=Hulette |first2=Gladys |access-date=2024-05-07 |via=memory.loc.gov}}
- For Woman's Favor (1924){{Cite AV media |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5401/default.html |title=For Woman's Favor |date=1924 |last=Lund |first=Oscar |last2=Owen |first2=Seena |access-date=2024-05-07 |via=memory.loc.gov}}
- Kärlek och dynamit (Love and Dynamite) (1933)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0526226}}
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- [http://www.citwf.com/person275557.htm Oscar A. C. Lund] at the Film Database Search
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Category:Swedish film directors
Category:Film directors from New York (state)
Category:Swedish male screenwriters
Category:Swedish emigrants to the United States
Category:Burials at Skogskyrkogården