Gene Gauntier
Acting
Biography
Gene Gauntier, born Eugenia Gauntier Liggett, was an American screenwriter, director and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 31 films.
Born: May 17, 1885
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Kansas, USA
Known For
The Colleen Bawn
A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg
The opening scene of our story shows a Union powder wagon making its way down the road convoyed by a company of mounted Union soldiers. The route of this wagon is reported to Confederate headquarters by one of its spies. Nan, a girl frequently employed by the department of the Confederate army, is called to headquarters and instructed to secure the destruction of the enemy's ammunition train just reported. Nan is fitted out with a Union uniform, mounted on a fast horse and sent on her journey, previously provided with a forged order supposedly signed by a Union general which authorizes her to pass through the lines.
From the Manger to the Cross
The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
The Lad from Old Ireland
A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.
You Remember Ellen
Summer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
Come Back to Erin
The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he may wed Peggy O'Malley in a style befitting her beauty. Peggy's father, Michael, favors Jerry's suit, but Peggy has a mind of her own, and takes passage on a steamer bound for America.
For Ireland's Sake
Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
The Taming of the Shrew
Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.
Ben Hur
The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Rory O'More
Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle.
Filmography
as Peggy O'Malley
as Eileen Donaghue
as Lady Geraldine
as Mary
as An American Widow
as Miriam — the Doctor's Wife
as Doris Barnett
as Lucashah / Ayub's 1st Wife
as Ellen
as Miss Foster - the Banker's Daughter
as Eily O'Connor, the 'Colleen Bawn'
as Kathleen
as Marcele
as Hallie Colburn
as Nan, The Girl Spy
as Frieda - the Spreewald Maiden
as Aileene
as Anastasia
as Jenny
as Wedding Party
as Nellie Carson (unconfirmed)
as Party Guest
as Evangeline