Robert G. Vignola

Known for: Directing
Born: August 5, 1882, Trivignano, Veneto, Italy
Died: October 25, 1953
Movies: 128

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Robert G. Vignola (born Rocco Giuseppe Vignola, August 5, 1882 – October 25, 1953) was an Italian-born American actor, screenwriter and film director in American cinema. One of the silent screen's most prolific directors, he made a handful of sound films in the early years of talkies but his career essentially ended in the silent era. Born at Trivigno, in the province of Potenza, Vignola left Italy with his family at the age of 3 and was raised in upstate New York. He made his acting debut at 19 performing in "Romeo and Juliet", with Eleanor Robson Belmont and Kyrle Bellew.

He began his film career as an actor in 1906 with the short film The Black Hand, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and produced by Biograph Company, generally considered the film that launched the mafia genre. In 1907 he joined Kalem Studios, for which he made numerous movies. One of Vignola's most notable film roles was as Judas Iscariot in From the Manger to the Cross (1912), directed by Sidney Olcott, one of the most successful films of the period.

Upcoming Robert G. Vignola Movies

The Reason Why

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Best-Known Movies

5.1

From the Manger to the Cross

1912

5.1

The Scarlet Letter

1934

5.4

The Lad from Old Ireland

1910

5.9

Beauty's Worth

1922

6.2

The Black Hand

1906

5.8

When Knighthood Was in Flower

1922

6.2

Enchantment

1921

6.0

The Perfect Clue

1935

7.4

The Colleen Bawn

1911

4.0

Déclassé

1925

Filmography

1915	Honor Thy Father	Chick Fenway - a Thief
1915	The Railroad Raiders of '62	Railroad Engineer (archive footage) (uncredited)
1914	The Show Girl's Glove
1913	The Padrone's Plot	Tony
1913	The Vampire
1913	Shenandoah	Undetermined Role
1913	The Alien	Paola
1913	The Scimitar of the Prophet	Hadjji - a Mohammedan Priest
1913	The War Correspondent	Hal Martin - the Star Reporter
1913	The Message of the Palms	Uncle Tom - the Colonel's Servant
1913	The Peril of the Dance Hall	Pablo Florenti - Pepita's Father
1913	Lady Peggy’s Escape	Preston
1913	The Prosecuting Attorney	The Criminal
1913	A Desperate Chance	Joe Mellon - the Brakeman
1913	A Sawmill Hazard	Geoffrey Stern
1913	The Wives of Jamestown	Shamus O’Daly
1912	The Shaughraun	Harvey Duff
1912	Ireland, the Oppressed	Michael Dee
1912	The Little Gluers	Darby O'Drive
1912	From the Manger to the Cross	Judas
1912	A Prisoner of the Harem	Mahmoud Pasha
1912	Tragedy of the Desert	The Flirtatious Malmoud Bey
1912	Captured by Bedouins	Judge Barnett - the Father
1912	An Arabian Tragedy	Ayub Kashif
1912	The O'Neill
1911	The Colleen Bawn	Mr. Corrigan
1911	Rory O'More	Black William
1911	Railroad Raiders of '62	Engineer
1911	The Fiddler’s Requiem	Dolores' fiance
1911	A Sawmill Hero
1910	When Lovers Part
1910	The Lad from Old Ireland	Man in Campaign Office
1908	The Fight for Freedom
1908	Over the Hills to the Poor House
1906	The Black Hand

Directing, Writing & Producing

1937	The Girl from Scotland Yard	Director
1935	The Perfect Clue	Director
1934	The Scarlet Letter	Director
1933	Broken Dreams	Director
1929	The Red Sword	Director
1928	Tropic Madness	Director
1927	Cabaret	Director
1926	Fifth Avenue	Director
1925	Déclassé	Director
1925	The Way of a Girl	Director
1924	Married Flirts	Director
1924	Yolanda	Director
1923	Adam and Eva	Director
1922	When Knighthood Was in Flower	Director
1922	The Young Diana	Director
1922	Beauty's Worth	Director
1921	Enchantment	Director
1921	The Woman God Changed	Director
1921	Straight Is the Way	Director
1921	The Passionate Pilgrim	Director
1920	The World and His Wife	Director
1920	The 13th Commandment	Director
1919	More Deadly Than the Male	Director
1919	The Third Kiss	Director
1919	The Heart of Youth	Director
1919	Louisiana	Director
1919	An Innocent Adventuress	Director
1919	The Home Town Girl	Director
1919	Experimental Marriage	Director
1919	The Winning Girl	Director
1919	You Never Saw Such a Girl	Director
1918	Women's Weapons	Director
1918	The Savage Woman	Director
1918	The Claw	Director
1918	Madame Jealousy	Director
1918	The Knife	Director
1917	The Hungry Heart	Director
1917	Double Crossed	Director
1917	The Love That Lives	Director
1917	Her Better Self	Director
1917	The Fortunes of Fifi	Director
1917	Great Expectations	Director
1916	Seventeen	Director
1916	The Reward of Patience	Director
1916	Under Cover	Director
1916	The Evil Thereof	Director
1916	The Moment Before	Director
1916	Audrey	Director
1916	The Spider	Director
1916	The Black Crook	Director
1915	The Maker of Dreams	Director
1915	The Crooked Path	Director
1915	Don Caesar de Bazan	Director
1915	Honor Thy Father	Director
1915	The Haunting Fear	Director
1915	A Sister's Burden	Director
1915	The Destroyer	Director
1915	The Siren's Reign	Director
1915	The Night Operator at Buxton	Director
1915	The Stolen Ruby	Director
1915	The Scorpion's Sting	Director
1914	The Hate That Withers	Director
1914	The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet	Director
1914	Her Bitter Lesson	Director
1914	The Man of Iron	Director
1914	A Midnight Tragedy	Director
1914	The Menace of Fate	Director
1914	The False Guardian	Director
1914	Seed and the Harvest	Director
1914	Into the Depths	Director
1914	The Devil's Dansant	Director
1914	The Hand of Fate	Director
1914	The Barefoot Boy	Director, Writer
1914	The Storm at Sea	Director
1914	The Vampire's Trail	Writer, Director
1914	Through the Flames	Director
1914	The Show Girl's Glove	Director
1914	The Cabaret Dancer	Director
1914	The Shadow	Director
1914	Her Husband's Friend	Director
1913	Primitive Man	Director
1913	The Vampire	Director
1913	The Bribe	Director
1913	The Lost Diamond	Director
1913	A Stolen Identity	Director
1913	The Hidden Witness	Director
1913	A Victim of Heredity	Director
1913	Man's Greed for Gold	Director
1913	The Alien	Director
1913	The Scimitar of the Prophet	Director
1913	The War Correspondent	Director
1913	The Message of the Palms	Director
1911	Rory O'More	Director

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