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.
94 directing credits · 35 acting credits
Directing · 94
The Scarlet Letter
1934
Tropic Madness
1928
Broken Dreams
1933
Cabaret
1927
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
Yolanda
1924
The Spider
1916
Seventeen
1916
The Claw
1918
The Vampire
1913
Married Flirts
1924
The Third Kiss
1919
The Girl from Scotland Yard
1937
Déclassé
1925
Fifth Avenue
1926
A Sister's Burden
1915
Beauty's Worth
1922
The Knife
1918
The Reward of Patience
1916
The World and His Wife
1920
The Perfect Clue
1935
Don Caesar de Bazan
1915
The 13th Commandment
1920
The Destroyer
1915
Enchantment
1921
Primitive Man
1913
Adam and Eva
1923
The Night Operator at Buxton
1915
The Haunting Fear
1915
An Innocent Adventuress
1919
The Winning Girl
1919
The Shadow
1914
The Scorpion's Sting
1915
The Bribe
1913
The Barefoot Boy
1914
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
Straight Is the Way
1921
Audrey
1916
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
The Passionate Pilgrim
1921
Seed and the Harvest
1914
The Fortunes of Fifi
1917
The Woman God Changed
1921
The Cabaret Dancer
1914
The War Correspondent
1913
The Way of a Girl
1925
The Devil's Dansant
1914
Experimental Marriage
1919
The Home Town Girl
1919
The Hidden Witness
1913
Louisiana
1919
The Siren's Reign
1915
The Savage Woman
1918
The Lost Diamond
1913
Women's Weapons
1918
The Storm at Sea
1914
Under Cover
1916
Double Crossed
1917
Great Expectations
1917
The Young Diana
1922
The Message of the Palms
1913
A Midnight Tragedy
1914
Madame Jealousy
1918
The Evil Thereof
1916
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914
Rory O'More
1911
The Hate That Withers
1914
Honor Thy Father
1915
The Crooked Path
1915
Through the Flames
1914
The Black Crook
1916
The Alien
1913
The Hand of Fate
1914
Her Husband's Friend
1914
The Man of Iron
1914
The False Guardian
1914
The Vampire's Trail
1914
The Red Sword
1929
Her Better Self
1917
The Hungry Heart
1917
The Stolen Ruby
1915
The Love That Lives
1917
More Deadly Than the Male
1919
The Menace of Fate
1914
A Victim of Heredity
1913
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
The Moment Before
1916
Into the Depths
1914
Man's Greed for Gold
1913
The Heart of Youth
1919
The Maker of Dreams
1915
The Reason Why
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A Stolen Identity
1913
You Never Saw Such a Girl
1919
Acting · 35
The Vampire
1913
From the Manger to the Cross
1912
The Lad from Old Ireland
1910
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911
The Shaughraun
1912
A Sawmill Hazard
1913
The Black Hand
1906
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
The Railroad Raiders of '62
1915
The Fight for Freedom
1908
The Padrone's Plot
1913
The Colleen Bawn
1911
Lady Peggy’s Escape
1913
The War Correspondent
1913
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912
The Prosecuting Attorney
1913
Shenandoah
1913
An Arabian Tragedy
1912
Tragedy of the Desert
1912
The Message of the Palms
1913
Over the Hills to the Poor House
1908
Captured by Bedouins
1912
A Sawmill Hero
1911
Rory O'More
1911
Honor Thy Father
1915
Railroad Raiders of '62
1911
A Desperate Chance
1913
The Alien
1913
The Little Gluers
1912
The Wives of Jamestown
1913
A Prisoner of the Harem
1912
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
When Lovers Part
1910
The O'Neill
1912