Gene Gauntier(1885-1966)
- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Gene Gauntier was born on 17 May 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for A Hitherto Unrelated Incident of the Girl Spy (1911), The Scarlet Letter (1908) and Evangeline (1908). She was married to J.J. Clark. She died on 18 December 1966 in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Actress
- Witch's Lure
- Tex
- 1920
- 1915
- 1915
- 1915
- 1915
- 1915
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
- 1914
Writer
- 1915
- 1914
- 1914
- A Celebrated Case
- scenario
- 1914
- 1914
- 1913
- 1913
- 1913
- 1913
- 1912
- 1912
- 1912
- 1912
- 1912
- 1912
Director
- Born
- Died
- Spouse
- J.J. Clark1912 - 1918 (divorced)
- Publicity listings
- TriviaSilent -screen actress and screenwriter, with Kalem from 1906. Her actual name was Eugenia Gauntier Liggett. In 1912 she left Kalem to form the Gene Gauntier Feature Players Company in conjunction with her former mentor, director Sidney Olcott. She retired from films in 1920. An interesting footnote to her career is, that as a producer for Biograph in 1907, she gave the first directing assignment to an actor they then called "Larry" who would become legendary silent-film producer-director D.W. Griffith.
- Quotes[on director Sidney Olcott] He loved a fight and was as tenacious as a bulldog. His method of direction would not be tolerated today. Shouts, threats, sarcasm, bullying, cajoling, petting, he would try each in turn. But after the scene was over it was always the same--an arm thrown around the shoulder, compliments, enthusiasm. His people adored him, respected him and would (and did) risk their lives for him.
- Nicknames
- The Kalem Girl
- Eugenia Gauntier Liggett
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