Laurence Trimble Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Laurence Trimble Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Laurence Norwood Trimble (February 15, 1885 â€" February 8, 1954) was

an American silent film director, writer and actor. Trimble began his

film career directing Jean, the Vitagraph Dog, the first canine to

have a leading role in motion pictures. He made his acting debut in

the 1910 silent Saved by the Flag, directed scores of films for

Vitagraph and other studios, and became head of production for

Florence Turner's independent film company in England (1913â€"1916).

Trimble was most widely known for his four films starring Strongheart,

a German Shepherd dog he discovered and trained that became the first

major canine film star. After he left filmmaking he trained animals

exclusively, particularly guide dogs for the blind.Laurence Norwood

Trimble was born February 15, 1885, in Robbinston, Maine. He grew up

on a rocky farm near the Bay of Fundy. "I wanted a dog more than

anything, but my family could not afford to let me have one," he later

wrote. "By the time I had worked my way through school I had owned a

number of dogs. Mostly they had bad reputations and nobody else wanted

them, but I loved them and learned from them."Trimble began to write

adventure fiction, and sold an animal story to a New York magazine in

about 1908.:139 In 1909 he visited Vitagraph Studios in New York while

doing research for a series of articles called "How Movies Are Made".

As he chatted with the sole assistant working under Rollin S.

Sturgeon, head of the scenario department, he learned that a story of

special interest to producer Albert E. Smith had been set aside

because it required a dog that could actâ€"not simply do tricks, but

to behave naturally on command. Trimble scanned the script and said he

could train any dog to do what was needed.:44
Laurence Trimble Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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