Leslie Howard Gordon

Leslie Howard Gordon
Occupation	Film director, Actor, Screenwriter
Years active	1912 - 1937 (film)

Leslie Howard Gordon was a British screenwriter and actor of the silent and early sound film eras. He also directed three films in the 1930s including The Double Event (1934).^[1] He worked as a screenwriter for Stoll Pictures in the early 1920s, when the company was the largest studio in the country. He often worked with the director Sinclair Hill.

Selected filmography

Director

• The House of Unrest (1931)
• Account Rendered (1932)
• The Double Event (1934)

Screenwriter

• All the World's a Stage (1917)
• The Woman with the Fan (1921)
• The Woman of His Dream (1921)
• The Tragedy of a Comic Song (1921)
• A Romance of Wastdale (1921)
• Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1921)
• The Fruitful Vine (1921)
• The Prey of the Dragon (1921)
• The River of Stars (1921)
• Frailty (1921)
• The Knave of Diamonds (1921)
• The Eleventh Hour (1921)
• Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922)
• Tell Your Children (1922)
• Half a Truth (1922)
• Melody of Death (1922)
• Little Brother of God (1922)
• Belonging (1922)
• The Knight Errant (1922)
• Lamp in the Desert (1922)
• The Passionate Friends 1922)
• The Guns of Loos (1928)
• Dark Red Roses (1929)
• Such Is the Law (1930)
• Other People's Sins (1931)
• The House of Unrest (1931)
• The Great Gay Road (1931)
• Account Rendered (1932)
• The First Mrs. Fraser (1932)
• It's a Boy (1933)
• The Double Event (1934)
• Melody and Romance (1937)
• The Live Wire (1937)

Actor

• Peg Woffington (1912)
• All the World's a Stage (1917)

References

1. Low p.311

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985.

External links

• Leslie Howard Gordon at the Internet Movie Database