Lamar Johnstone

Lamar Johnstone
Born	1886 Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Died	May 19, 1919 Palm Springs, California, USA
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1911-1919

Signed Photo to silent actor James Mason

Lamar Johnstone (left) in a scene with Dorothy Gibson from the comedy, The Lucky Hold Up (1912). The film is the only one of their films to survive in the Library of Congress. It was released April 11, 1912 while Gibson was on the RMS Titanic

Lamar Johnstone (1886 – May 21, 1919) was an American silent film actor and director.

Biography

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Johnstone starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919. He often starred alongside Dorothy Gibson, an actress who survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Johnstone also briefly flirted with directing and directed three films; one in 1913 called Truth in the Wilderness, starring Charlotte Burton, The Turning Point (1914), and The Unforgiven (1915). In the 1916 serial Secret of the Submarine, Johnstone got to fly Juanita Hansen in a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane.^[1]

He died young, aged 34, on May 21, 1919 in Palm Springs, California.

Partial filmography

• Robin Hood (1912)
• The Lady Killer (1913)
• The Secret of the Submarine (1915)
• The Tongues of Men (1916)
• Ben Blair (1916)
• That Devil, Bateese (1918)
• The Sheriff's Son (1919)
• The Lone Star Ranger (1919)

References

1. Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel Blum c. 1953 page 121

External links

• Lamar Johnstone at the Internet Movie Database
• Portrait of Lamar Johnstone by Thomas Staedeli