Francis Boggs Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Francis Boggs Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Francis Winter Boggs (March 1870 â€" October 27, 1911) was a stage

actor and pioneer silent film director. He was one of the first to

direct a film in Hollywood.He was born in Santa Rosa, California to

George W. Boggs and Alabama McMeans. While in his teens he began

acting with the Alcazar stock company in San Francisco and toured the

American southwest. In 1900, he moved to Los Angeles, but in 1902, he

went to Chicago, where he continued to work in theatre. There, he met

William Nicholas Selig and in 1907 became involved with the making of

motion pictures at Selig's Polyscope studios in Chicago. With

cameraman and jack of all trades Thomas Persons, Boggs made one of his

earliest films, Monte Cristo. He completed the interior shots at the

Chicago studio, but shot the scenes of Edmond Dantès emerging from

the sea at the beach near Los Angeles.In Chicago in 1908, he made The

Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, which had its writer, L. Frank Baum,

present a slide show and films as a live travelogue presentation of

his Oz story. In March 1909, he returned to the west coast, where he

filmed In the Sultan’s Power, one of the first motion pictures

completely made in Los Angeles. He left Los Angeles in April to go on

location in Yosemite and Oakland in California and the Hood River

Valley in Oregon. In October, Boggs returned to Los Angeles and rented

a small bungalow in the Edendale district as a permanent base from

which he operated a west coast satellite studio for Selig. Other East

Coast studios soon began filming on the west coast to take advantage

of its moderate climate. Among people Boggs started in the film

industry were actor-director Hobart Bosworth, actor-director Robert Z.

Leonard, cowboy star Art Acord, and actresses Betty Harte, Bessie

Eyton, and Bebe Daniels. (The Sergeant, a Western short in Yosemite

produced and directed by Boggs and written and starring Bosworth, was

released in September 1910.) He also gave Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle his

first movie work, 1909's Ben's Kid, and made four short films with

him.Boggs was shot to death by Frank Minnimatsu on October 27, 1911,

when Minnimatsu, a caretaker and janitor, became violently deranged.

Studio owner Selig tried to wrestle the gun away from the man and he

too was shot, wounded in the arm. Ironically, that same day in 1911,

David Horsley and Al Christie set up their Nestor Studios in

Hollywood, sounding the death knell for Edendale as the film

production center of Los Angeles. Within two years, more than a dozen

film companies would follow Boggs' example and establish facilities in

and around Los Angeles.
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