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| Channing
Pollock
1880 - 1946 |
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. The writer Channing Pollock started his professional career as a critic for different newspapers like The Washington Post, The Times and Dramatic Mirror. Finally he began to write his own plays. He soon became established in this genre and wrote more than 30 plays which were staged, among them "The Pit" (03), "Clothes" (06), "The Crowded Hour" (18), "The Sign on the Door" (19), "The Fool" (22) and "The Enemy" (25). He was already busy for the film business from 1914 - often for filming his own plays - to these movies belong"Clothes" (14), "Such a Little Queen" (14) with Mary Pickford, "The Final Curtain" (16), "The Pretenders" (16) and "A Perfect Lady" (18) with Madge Kennedy. In the 20's he wrote the plays for "Roads of Destiny" (21), "Such a Little Queen" (21), "The Crowded Hour" (25), "The Enemy" (27) directed by Fred Niblo with Lillian Gish in the leading role and "The Locked Door" (29) directed by George Fitzmaurice with Barbara Stanwyck and Rod La Rocque. When his plays were no longer able to go on from earliers successes
he retired as an author. In 1938 became his last story filmed called "Midnight
Intruder" (38) directed Arthur Lubin.
Other movies from Channing Pollock:
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