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Reginald Barker is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 2 april 1886 at Winnipeg (Canada)

Reginald Barker

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Birth name Reginald C. Barker
Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1886 at Winnipeg (Canada)
Death 23 february 1945 (at 58 years) at Pasadena (USA)

Reginald C. Barker (April 2, 1886 – February 23, 1945) was a pioneer film director.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada his family moved to Scotland when he was an infant and then to the United States. Living in California, Barker wrote, produced, and acted in his first play at the age of sixteen following which he acted and handled stage manager duties with a traveling stock company. At age nineteen, he went to New York City where he worked as a stage manager for Henry Miller. Barker made his Broadway acting debut in 1910 in the Shubert brothers production of "Mary Magdalene" written by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Fascinated by the fledgling film business, Barker soon joined the Bison Motion Pictures division of the New York Motion Picture Company. At the company's studio/ranch in California, he worked under film producer and screenwriter Thomas H. Ince. Acting was not Barker's forte and he trained as an assistant director until 1912 when he directed his first film, a twenty minute western titled "On the Warpath" starring Art Acord. Barker went on to direct more than eighty films, including the acclaimed 1915 American Civil War drama The Coward. That same year he directed The Italian but because Thomas H. Ince was notorious for credit-grabbing, Barker originally went uncredited on this film. "The Italian" has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The following year, with the United States still not involved in World War I, Barker co-directed the famous anti-war feature, Civilization.

During his career, Reginald Barker directed early stars such as Geraldine Farrar, William S. Hart, Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Hoot Gibson, Willard Mack, and Myrna Loy. In his first talkie, "The Toilers" (1928) he directed Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. Barker made his last film in 1935. Titled "The Healer," it starred Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley and Mickey Rooney.

Reginald Barker retired to Pasadena, California where he and his wife operated a gift shop until his death from a heart attack in 1945. He is interred in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

Biography

Sa famille quitte le Canada lorsqu'il est nourrisson et s'installe en Écosse puis vient se fixer aux États-Unis en Californie. Très jeune il écrit des pièces de théâtre. À l'âge de dix-neuf ans, il gagne New York et fait ses débuts en 1910 dans Marie Magdeleine de Maurice Maeterlinck.

Le jeune cinéma le fascine et il entre dans la société dans laquelle Thomas Harper Ince est très influent. Ce dernier fait signer aux réalisateurs qu'il supervise des contrats où son nom apparaîtra en tête du générique. Il est ainsi difficile de savoir quels sont les films qu'il a réalisés personnellement. Barker est cité au générique, comme scénariste ou coréalisateur de films qui ont été de grands succès à l'époque: La série des Rio Jim (1914), The City of Darkness (La cité des ténèbres, 1915, The Italian (L'Italien ou le Gondolier de Venise, 1915), Hell Bound of Alaska (Terrible châtiment, 1915), Carmen of the Klondyke (Carmen du KLondyke, 1917). Le film le plus marquant est Civilisation, produit en 1916 en collaboration avec Thomas H. Ince sur un scénario de C. Gardner Sullivan.

La critique a admis qu'il était le meilleur auteur des productions de Thomas H.Ince, un de ceux qui firent du western un grand art.

Il a continué à réaliser des films dans lesquels ont tourné de grandes vedettes : Sessue Hayakawa, Myrna Loy. Dans son premier film parlant, The Toilers en 1928, il dirige Douglas Fairbanks Jr.. En 1935 il tournera son dernier film The Healer avec Mickey Rooney.

Il se retire à Pasadena en Californie où il meurt d'une crise cardiaque en 1945.

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Filmography of Reginald Barker (53 films)

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Actor

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 3h14
Directed by Rex Ingram, Rex Ingram, Fred Niblo, Christy Cabanne, Charles Brabin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell, Kathleen Key
Roles Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.895863.895863.895863.895863.89586
Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala. When an accident leads to Ben-Hur's arrest, Messala, who has become corrupt and arrogant, makes sure Ben-Hur and his family are jailed and separated.

Director

The Healer
The Healer (1935)
, 1h16
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen, Robert McWade, J. Farrell MacDonald
Rating60% 3.003683.003683.003683.003683.00368
Dr. Holden (Ralph Bellamy) is "The Healer" (the original title) in this 1930s morally uplifting pot-boiler. He is a doctor that has come home to a warm springs to try to heal children from the unnamed crippling disease (polio). He runs a destitute camp for these children, assisted by Evelyn Allen (Karen Morley) who looks upon the Doc as a great man. Jimmy (Mickey Rooney) is a paraplegic kid whom the Doc promises to cure. This little triangle is interrupted by a rich girl Joan Bradshaw (Judith Allen) who cons the good Doc into building a sanitorium for the wealthy with her father's money. Doc is momentarily swayed, but comes to his senses just as a forest fire threatens his original cabins around the warm spring. His treatment of Jimmy pays off as Jimmy rides a bicycle to save the day. Doc realizes that his true love is Evelyn, not the self-interested Joan.
The Moonstone, 1h2
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors David Manners, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Phyllis Barry, John Davidson, Jameson Thomas, Herbert Bunston
Rating50% 2.519162.519162.519162.519162.51916
As with the book, the film is based around the Herncastle Moonstone, a valuable diamond from India.
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Directed by Reginald Barker
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield, DeWitt Jennings, Nella Walker

A novelist makes a bet he can complete a book within 24 hours. He goes to write it at a mountain resort which he thinks is deserted but is disturbed by a series of visitors.
The Great Divide, 1h12
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Dorothy Mackaill, Ian Keith, Myrna Loy, Lucien Littlefield, Creighton Hale, George Fawcett
Rating51% 2.578332.578332.578332.578332.57833
Stephen Ghent, a mineowner, falls in love with Ruth Jordan, an arrogant girl from the East, unaware that she is the daughter of his dead partner. Ruth is vacationing in Arizona and Mexico with a fast set of friends, including her fiancé, Edgar. Manuella, a Spanish halfbreed hopelessly in love with Ghent, causes Ruth to return to her fiancé when she insinuates that Ghent belongs to her. Ghent follows Ruth, kidnaps her, and takes her into the wilderness to endure hardship. There she discovers that she loves Ghent, and she discards Edgar in favor of him.
The Frontiersman, 53minutes
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tim McCoy, Claire Windsor, Russell Simpson, Lillian Leighton, Louise Lorraine, John Big Tree

This script must be run from the command line
The Flaming Forest, 1h10
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Antonio Moreno, Renée Adorée, William Austin, Émile Chautard, Oscar Beregi, Sr., Clarence Geldart

North-West Mounted Police sergeant David Carrigan (Antonio Moreno) fights Indians and wooes Jeanne-Marie (Renée Adorée).
The Great Divide, 1h20
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Alice Terry, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Huntley Gordon, Allan Forrest, George Cooper

Ruth Jordan is a gentlewoman rescued from a fate worse than death by Stephen Ghent—facing Dutch, the nastiest man in the West.
The White Desert, 1h10
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Claire Windsor, Patrick H. O'Malley Jr., Robert Frazer, Frank Currier, Sōjin Kamiyama, Priscilla Bonner
Rating67% 3.3586253.3586253.3586253.3586253.358625
A melodrama about railroad builders.
Broken Barriers, 1h
Directed by Reginald Barker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Kirkwood Sr., Norma Shearer, Adolphe Menjou, Mae Busch, George Fawcett, Robert Agnew

Grace Durland (Shearer) is a young debutante who is forced to leave college when her father goes bankrupt. While working for a living, she falls in love with Ward Trenton (Kirkwood) who is married. As she reveals her love for a married man to her family, the reaction is very negative. Ward's evil wife refuses to grant him a divorce. This changes when he is injured in a car accident.