| LC control no. | n 94071247 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McCutcheon, Wallace |
| Variant(s) | McCutcheon, Old Man McCutcheon, Pop |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1861-11-03 |
| Death date | 1918-10-03 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Kings County (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Theater Motion picture industry |
| Profession or occupation | Motion picture directors Motion picture producers Theatrical managers Camera operators Screenwriters |
| Special note | Birth date sometimes given as 1858 or 1862 |
| Found in | The suburbanite [MP] 1904 (name not given) Before Hollywood, c1986: p. 119 (directed and scenario by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.) The emergence of cinema, c1990: p. 226 (Wallace McCutcheon became head of production at American Mutoscope Company (later American Mutoscope and Biograph Company) in 1897) p. 386 (in 1905 began to work at Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) p. 458 (in 1907 returned to American Mutoscope and Biograph Company) New York, New York, Extracted Death Index, 1862-1948 viewed October 3, 2018 via Ancestry.com (Wallace McCutcheon; age 56; born about 1862; died October 3, 1918, Kings, New York, USA) Howard, H. W. B., ed., The Eagle and Brooklyn: The Record of the Progress of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Volume 2, 1893, viewed online October 3, 2018 via Google books p. 994 (Wallace McCutcheon; Brooklyn theater manager; born in New York City, November 3, 1861; married to Mira West) Who's who of Victorian cinema, viewed online October 3, 2018 (Wallace "Old Man" McCutcheon (ca. 1858-1918); previously a stage director; taken on by American Biograph in the spring of 1897; as head of production he supervised the film-making of others, but also wrote, directed and on occasion filmed for himself; director at Gaston Méliès' new studio in Fort Lee, N.J. in 1909; father of Wallace McCutcheon, Jr.) Wilson, S. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 2016, viewed online October 3, 2018 via Google books p. 496-497 (Wallace McCutcheon; born, 1862; died, October 3, 1918; silent screen director at Biograph; also known as "Pop" McCutcheon) |
| Associated language | eng |
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