Chester M. Franklin

American film director

Mildred Nadel

(m. 1926)

RelativesSidney Franklin (brother)

Chester Mortimer Franklin (September 1, 1889 – March 12, 1954) was an American film director and actor active mainly in the silent era. Born in San Francisco, he was the brother of Sidney A. Franklin. In the late 1910s, he co-directed with his brother Sidney several films with all-children casts for William Fox.^[1]^[2] He directed two silent horror films, the 1924 Behind the Curtain (a.k.a. Souls Which Pass in the Night) and the 1927 The Thirteenth Hour.^[3]

Partial filmography

Photo of the Keystone Cops from 1912, "Chet" Franklin in back fourth from right

Going Straight (1916)
Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
The Little School Ma'am (1916)
The Babes in the Woods (1917)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1917)
Treasure Island (1918)
You Never Can Tell (1920)
All Soul's Eve (1921)
The Case of Becky (1921)
Nancy from Nowhere (1922)
A Game Chicken (1922)
The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Where the North Begins (1923)
The Song of Love (1923)
Behind the Curtain (1924)^[3]
The Thirteenth Hour (1927)
Detectives (1928)
Vanity Fair (1932)
File 113 (1933)
The Iron Master (1933)
Sequoia (1934)
Tough Guy (1936)

References

^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology (2 ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 181. ISBN 0-7864-1059-0. OCLC 46822379.
^ "Chester M. Franklin". AllMovie. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
^ ^a ^b Workman, Chris; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era (1895-1929). Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-936168-68-2. OCLC 1083765034.