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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1882-08-05
- event Death Date 1953-10-25
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1.1
- info Birth Place Trivignano, Veneto, Italy
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Over the Hills to the Poor House
1908-06-26
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Shenandoah
1913-07-04
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The Padrone's Plot
1913-12-01
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The Show Girl's Glove
1914-06-22
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The War Correspondent
1913-03-08
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The Vampire
1913-10-15
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A Prisoner of the Harem
1912-07-19
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An Arabian Tragedy
1912-06-19
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The Little Gluers
1912-11-18
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The Prosecuting Attorney
1913-02-03
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The Message of the Palms
1913-02-26
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A Sawmill Hazard
1913-01-11
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The Shaughraun
1912-12-23
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A Desperate Chance
1913-01-18
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The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913-02-17
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Ireland, the Oppressed
1912-12-14
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The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913-04-11
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The Alien
1913-05-07
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Honor Thy Father
1915-06-25
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The Railroad Raiders of '62
1915-03-20
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The Black Hand
1906-03-29
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Railroad Raiders of '62
1911-06-15
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From the Manger to the Cross
1912-10-03
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The Lad from Old Ireland
1910-11-23
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The Colleen Bawn
1911-10-16
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Rory O'More
1911-09-03
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When Lovers Part
1910-12-23
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A Sawmill Hero
1911-03-22
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The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911-05-03
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Captured by Bedouins
1912-06-26
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The Fight for Freedom
1908-07-17
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Tragedy of the Desert
1912-07-01
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Primitive Man
1913-11-22
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Her Husband's Friend
1914-01-07
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The Shadow
1914-02-23
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The Show Girl's Glove
1914-06-22
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The Cabaret Dancer
1914-04-06
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Through the Flames
1914-06-24
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The Storm at Sea
1914-08-18
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The Hand of Fate
1914-09-01
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The Devil's Dansant
1914-09-07
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The War Correspondent
1913-03-08
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The Fortunes of Fifi
1917-02-26
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The Knife
1918-02-01
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The Barefoot Boy
1914-09-01
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Seed and the Harvest
1914-10-14
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The Barefoot Boy
1914-09-01
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The False Guardian
1914-10-21
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Into the Depths
1914-09-15
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The Menace of Fate
1914-10-28
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A Midnight Tragedy
1914-11-11
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The Evil Thereof
1916-06-05
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The Man of Iron
1914-11-16
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The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914-12-09
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Her Bitter Lesson
1914-11-30
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The Hate That Withers
1914-12-16
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Honor Thy Father
1915-06-25
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A Sister's Burden
1915-05-10
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The Destroyer
1915-04-30
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The Haunting Fear
1915-06-11
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The Crooked Path
1915-07-19
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The Scorpion's Sting
1915-01-06
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The Stolen Ruby
1915-01-13
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The Siren's Reign
1915-04-02
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Don Caesar de Bazan
1915-06-26
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The Maker of Dreams
1915-08-02
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Don Caesar de Bazan
1915-06-26
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The Vampire
1913-10-15
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The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913-04-11
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The Message of the Palms
1913-02-26
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Man's Greed for Gold
1913-05-14
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The Vampire's Trail
1914-08-03
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The Vampire's Trail
1914-08-03
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The Alien
1913-05-07
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A Victim of Heredity
1913-05-26
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The Lost Diamond
1913-07-14
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The Hidden Witness
1913-07-05
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A Stolen Identity
1913-07-07
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The Bribe
1913-09-08
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The Night Operator at Buxton
1915-03-13
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The Scarlet Letter
1934-09-18
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922-09-15
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The World and His Wife
1920-07-18
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The Perfect Clue
1935-03-13
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Beauty's Worth
1922-05-14
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Great Expectations
1917-01-08
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Rory O'More
1911-09-03
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Broken Dreams
1933-10-19
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Cabaret
1927-03-26
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The 13th Commandment
1920-01-17
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The Winning Girl
1919-02-23
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Enchantment
1921-10-29
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Déclassé
1925-04-11
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Her Better Self
1917-05-21
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Adam and Eva
1923-02-11
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The Claw
1918-06-10
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The Way of a Girl
1925-03-29
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The Vampire
1913-10-15
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The Girl from Scotland Yard
1937-05-30
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Under Cover
1916-07-20
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The Young Diana
1922-08-27
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Experimental Marriage
1919-03-10
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Tropic Madness
1928-12-19
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The Love That Lives
1917-07-09
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The Black Crook
1916-01-10
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The Woman God Changed
1921-07-03
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Straight Is the Way
1921-03-06
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Yolanda
1924-09-15
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The Passionate Pilgrim
1921-01-02
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Married Flirts
1924-10-27
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The Moment Before
1916-04-27
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Fifth Avenue
1926-01-24
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Seventeen
1916-11-02
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Women's Weapons
1918-11-24