Edward Lamar Johnstone
American actor

Edward Lamar Johnstone

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American actor
Gender:
Male
Places:
United States of America
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ActorFilm actor
Work field:
Film, TV, Stage & Radio
Birth:
15 March 1884(Fairfax, Virginia, USA)
Death:
19 May 1919(Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, USA)
Star sign:
Pisces
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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

Edward Lamar Johnstone (March 15, 1884 – 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 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.

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

Partial filmography

  • Robin Hood (1912)
  • The Lady Killer (1913)
  • Sapho (*uncredited) (1913)
  • Through a Telescope (1913)
  • The Secret of the Submarine (1915)
  • The Tongues of Men (1916)
  • Ben Blair (1916)
  • That Devil, Bateese (1918)
  • The Girl of My Dreams (1918)
  • The Sheriff's Son (1919)
  • Diane of the Green Van (1919)
  • Wolves of the Night (1919)
  • The Lone Star Ranger (1919)