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Linda Arvidson
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| Intro | American actress | ||
| Was | Actor Screenwriter | ||
| From | United States of America | ||
| Field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 12 July 1884, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, U.S.A. | ||
| Death | 26 July 1949, New York City, New York, U.S.A. (aged 65 years) | ||
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Biography
Linda Arvidson Johnson (July 12, 1884 – July 26, 1949), known as Linda Arvidson, was an American actress in silent films.
Biography
Arvidson was the first wife of film director D.W. Griffith (May 14, 1906 - March 2, 1936). She played lead roles in many of his earliest films. While acting, she was sometimes credited as Linda Griffith. The pair separated around 1912 and finally divorced in 1936 when Griffith wished to remarry.
In 1925, she authored her autobiography When the Movies Were Young (1925, 1968). She is mentioned in William J. Mann's The Biograph Girl, a novel based on Florence Lawrence.
Selected filmography
- The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
- The Bandit's Waterloo (1908)
- Balked at the Altar (1908)
- After Many Years (1908)
- The Taming of the Shrew (1908)
- A Calamitous Elopement (1908)
- The Greaser's Gauntlet (1908)
- The Man and the Woman (1908)
- The Fatal Hour (1908)
- For a Wife's Honor (1908)
- Betrayed by a Handprint (1908)
- The Red Girl (1908)
- Where the Breakers Roar (1908)
- A Smoked Husband (1908)
- The Stolen Jewels (1908)
- Father Gets in the Game (1908)
- Ingomar, the Barbarian (1908)
- The Vaquero's Vow (1908)
- The Planter's Wife (1908)
- Concealing a Burglar (1908)
- The Pirate's Gold (1908)
- The Song of the Shirt (1908)
- A Woman's Way (1908)
- The Clubman and the Tramp (1908)
- The Feud and the Turkey (1908)
- The Test of Friendship (1908)
- An Awful Moment (1908)
- The Helping Hand (1908)
- One Touch of Nature (1909)
- Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
- Love Finds a Way (1909)
- The Sacrifice (1909)
- A Rural Elopement (1909)
- Those Boys! (1909)
- The Criminal Hypnotist (1909)
- The Fascinating Mrs. Francis (1909)
- Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
- Those Awful Hats (1909)
- The Welcome Burglar (1909)
- The Cord of Life (1909)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1909)
- A Wreath in Time (1909)
- Tragic Love (1909)
- The Golden Louis (1909)
- A Corner in Wheat (1909)
- At the Altar (1909)
- A Drunkard's Reformation (1909)
- Resurrection (1909)
- The Hessian Renegades (1909)
- The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period (1909)
- To Save Her Soul (1909)
- The Day After (1909)
- His Wife's Mother (1909)
- The Roue's Heart (1909)
- I Did It (1909)
- The Deception (1909)
- Pippa Passes (1909)
- The Rocky Road (1910)
- The Woman from Mellon's (1910)
- The Two Brothers (1910)
- The Unchanging Sea (1910)
- His Trust (1911)
- His Trust Fulfilled (1911)
- His Daughter (1911)
- How She Triumphed (1911 - writer)
- Enoch Arden (1911)
- The Miser's Heart (1911)
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