Robert G. Vignola

Robert G. Vignola

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. One of the silent screen's most prolific directors, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Born at Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, Vignola left Italy with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 performing in "Romeo and Juliet", with Eleanor Robson Belmont and Kyrle Bellew. He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. In 1907 he joined Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. One of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Sidney Olcott, one of the most successful films of the period. Vignola directed 87 films, most notably The Vampire (1913), sometimes cited as the first "vamp" movie, and Seventeen (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as Audrey (1916) and Double Crossed (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), starring Marion Davies, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films include Déclassée (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Clark Gable; Broken Dreams (1933), which received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and The Scarlet Letter (1934), the last film of Colleen Moore. Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953. He lived in a mansion at Whitley Heights owned by William Randolph Hearst. Hearst's mistress Marion Davies was allowed to stay without him at Vignola's mansion, worried that she was having affairs and considering Vignola a trusted companion for her as he was homosexual. He was buried in St. Agnes Cemetery, Menands, New York.

Known For: Directing

Born: Trivignano, Veneto, Italy, 1882-08-05

Died: 1953-10-25

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1906	The Black Hand		57
2	1908	Over the Hills to the Poor House		48
3	1908	The Fight for Freedom		0
4	1910	The Lad from Old Ireland	Man in Campaign Office	51
5	1910	When Lovers Part		40
6	1911	A Sawmill Hero		0
7	1911	The Fiddler’s Requiem	Dolores' fiance	0
8	1911	Railroad Raiders of '62	Engineer	50
9	1911	Rory O'More	Black William	42
10	1911	The Colleen Bawn	Mr. Corrigan	65
11	1912	The O'Neill		0
12	1912	An Arabian Tragedy	Ayub Kashif	0
13	1912	Captured by Bedouins	Judge Barnett - the Father	0
14	1912	Tragedy of the Desert	The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey	0
15	1912	A Prisoner of the Harem	Mahmoud Pasha	0
16	1912	From the Manger to the Cross	Judas	51
17	1912	The Little Gluers	Darby O'Drive	0
18	1912	Ireland, the Oppressed	Michael Dee	0
19	1912	The Shaughraun	Harvey Duff	0
20	1913	The Wives of Jamestown	Shamus O’Daly	0
21	1913	A Sawmill Hazard	Geoffrey Stern	0
22	1913	A Desperate Chance	Joe Mellon - the Brakeman	0
23	1913	The Prosecuting Attorney	The Criminal	0
24	1913	Lady Peggy’s Escape	Preston	0
25	1913	The Peril of the Dance Hall	Pablo Florenti - Pepita's Father	0
26	1913	The Message of the Palms	Uncle Tom - the Colonel's Servant	0
27	1913	The War Correspondent	Hal Martin - the Star Reporter	0
28	1913	The Scimitar of the Prophet	Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest	0
29	1913	The Alien	Paola	0
30	1913	Shenandoah	Undetermined Role	0
31	1913	The Vampire		70
32	1913	The Padrone's Plot	Tony	0
33	1914	The Show Girl's Glove		0
34	1915	The Railroad Raiders of '62	Railroad Engineer (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
35	1915	Honor Thy Father	Chick Fenway - a Thief	0

Robert G. Vignola

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