Joe De Grasse

Joseph Louis De Grasse ( born May 4, 1873 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, † 25 May 1940 Eagle Rock, California, United States) was a Canadian actor and film director. De Grasse was, besides Maurice Tourneur, John Ford and others, in 1915 the founding members of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

Life

The Canadian-born De Grasse worked as a journalist before he turned to the theater and became an actor. At the beginning of the 1910s turned De Grasse his first films as an actor for Pathé. In 1914 joined De Grasse, whose younger brother Sam De Grasse had followed him to the U.S., and also worked as an actor, as a director behind the camera. In the production of his first film as a director, the romance Her Bounty, De Grasse worked for the first time with his future wife, the writer and later director Ida May Park. By the year 1917, De Grasse, the director of almost all scenarios that Park wrote. Mid -1920s was De Grasses career as a director to an end, and he began to work as an actor again.

Joseph De Grasse, the uncle of the cameraman Robert De Grasse, he made more than 80 films as a director and has appeared in over 20 productions as an actor.

Filmography

Direction

Actor

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