Thomas H. Ince

Known for: Production
Born: November 16, 1882, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Died: November 19, 1924
Movies: 226

Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent era filmmaker and media proprietor. Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films. His untimely death at the height of his career, after he became severely ill aboard the private yacht of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, has caused much speculation, although the official cause of his death was heart failure.

Best-Known Movies

6.1

Hell's Hinges

1916

4.9

Seeing Stars

1922

5.2

The Return of Draw Egan

1916

6.2

The Italian

1915

5.8

The Coward

1915

5.2

Civilization

1916

5.5

The Invaders

1912

6.2

The Wrath of the Gods

1914

5.6

The Bargain

1914

6.3

Lorna Doone

1922

Filmography

2012	Behind The Scenes Of The Silent Screen	Himself
1990	Death In Hollywood	Self (archive footage)
1922	Seeing Stars	Self
1920	A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios	Himself
1916	Civilization	Himself - in Prologue
1910	His New Lid
1909	The Cardinal's Conspiracy
1908	Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy

Directing, Writing & Producing

1923	Anna Christie	Director
1923	Soul of the Beast	Producer
1922	The Hottentot	Producer
1922	Lorna Doone	Producer
1921	Hail the Woman	Producer
1921	One a Minute	Producer
1921	Mother o' Mine	Producer
1921	The Home Stretch	Producer
1921	Beau Revel	Producer
1920	Silk Hosiery	Producer
1920	A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios	Producer
1920	Let's Be Fashionable	Producer
1920	Paris Green	Producer
1920	The Dark Mirror	Producer
1919	The Haunted Bedroom	Producer
1919	Stepping Out	Producer
1919	The Market of Souls	Producer
1919	Wagon Tracks	Producer
1919	Hay Foot, Straw Foot	Producer
1919	The Busher	Producer
1919	Greased Lightning	Producer
1919	The Homebreaker	Producer
1919	Hard Boiled	Producer
1918	String Beans	Producer
1918	Branding Broadway	Producer
1918	Fuss and Feathers	Producer
1918	When Do We Eat?	Producer
1918	Coals of Fire	Producer
1918	A Nine O'Clock Town	Producer
1918	Shark Monroe	Producer
1918	The Biggest Show on Earth	Producer
1918	The Family Skeleton	Writer
1918	The Marriage Bubble	Producer
1917	The Silent Man	Producer
1917	Sudden Jim	Producer
1917	Time Locks and Diamonds	Producer
1917	The Flame of the Yukon	Producer
1917	The Hater of Men	Producer
1917	The Clodhopper	Producer
1917	The Girl, Glory	Producer
1917	The Millionaire Vagrant	Producer
1917	Wolf Lowry	Producer
1917	Happiness	Producer
1917	The Desert Man	Producer
1917	Paddy O'Hara	Producer
1917	The Dark Road	Producer
1917	The Little Brother	Producer
1917	Princess of the Dark	Producer
1917	Chicken Casey	Producer
1917	The Iced Bullet	Producer
1917	The Bride of Hate	Producer
1916	The Criminal	Producer
1916	The Honorable Algy	Producer
1916	A Corner in Colleens	Producer
1916	Somewhere in France	Producer
1916	The Vagabond Prince	Producer
1916	The Return of Draw Egan	Producer
1916	The Jungle Child	Producer
1916	The Dawn Maker	Producer
1916	The Captive God	Producer
1916	The Deserter	Writer
1916	The Dividend	Director
1916	Civilization	Director, Producer
1916	The Market of Vain Desire	Producer
1916	The Beggar of Cawnpore	Producer
1916	Civilization's Child	Producer
1916	The Stepping Stone	Producer, Director
1916	Bullets and Brown Eyes	Producer, Writer
1916	The Patriot	Producer
1916	Hell's Hinges	Producer
1916	The Raiders	Producer
1916	Honor's Altar	Producer
1916	The Three Musketeers	Producer
1916	The Green Swamp	Producer
1916	Peggy	Director
1916	Between Men	Producer
1915	The Despoiler	Writer
1915	The Coward	Screenplay, Producer
1915	Aloha Oe	Producer, Writer
1915	The Disciple	Screenplay, Producer
1915	Never Again	Producer
1915	Keno Bates, Liar	Writer
1915	Knight of the Trail	Producer
1915	The Toast of Death	Director
1915	The $100,000 Bill	Producer
1915	The Burglar's Baby	Producer
1915	The Ruse	Writer
1915	The Hammer	Producer
1915	The Alien	Director
1915	The Failure	Producer
1915	The Reward	Writer
1915	Cash Parrish's Pal	Writer
1915	The Italian	Producer
1915	His Superficial Wife	Producer
1915	The Darkening Trail	Producer
1915	Hostage of the North	Producer
1915	Bad Buck of Santa Ynez	Writer
1915	The Affiancéd Wife	Producer
1915	The Cup of Life	Director, Writer
1915	The Riddle of the Wooden Leg	Producer
1915	The Taking of Luke McVane	Producer
1915	On the Night Stage	Producer
1915	The Roughneck	Writer
1915	Molly of the Mountains	Producer
1915	The Devil	Writer, Director
1915	The Mill by the Zuyder Zee	Producer
1915	The Girl Who Might Have Been	Producer
1915	On the High Seas	Producer
1915	The Sheriff's Streak of Yellow	Producer
1915	Shorty's Secret	Producer
1915	The Chinatown Mystery	Producer
1915	A Modern Noble	Producer
1915	The Gun Fighter	Producer
1915	The Cross of Fire	Writer, Producer
1915	In the Land of the Otter	Writer
1915	A Midas of the Desert	Producer
1915	The Scourge of the Desert	Writer
1914	A Flower in the Desert	Producer
1914	The Last of the Line	Director, Producer
1914	The City of Darkness	Producer
1914	The Bargain	Writer, Producer
1914	A Crook's Sweetheart	Producer
1914	The Cross in the Desert	Producer
1914	The Desperado	Producer
1914	The Spark Eternal	Producer
1914	The Typhoon	Producer
1914	The Death Mask	Producer
1914	Parson Larkin's Wife	Producer
1914	A Tragedy of the North Woods	Producer
1914	The Sheriff's Sister	Producer
1914	The Winning of Denise	Producer
1914	The Stigma; or, The Brand of Shame	Producer
1914	From Out of the Dregs	Producer
1914	The Wrath of the Gods	Screenplay, Producer
1914	The Wharf Rats	Producer
1914	The Social Ghost	Producer
1914	Thieves	Producer
1914	The Raiders	Producer
1914	The Play's the Thing	Producer
1914	The Secret Lode	Producer
1914	O Mimi san	Writer
1914	For Her Brother's Sake	Producer
1914	In the Sage Brush Country	Writer
1913	The Woman	Producer
1913	The Harvest of Sin	Producer
1913	The Pitfall	Producer
1913	The Buried Past	Producer
1913	The Days of '49	Director
1913	From Out the Storm	Producer
1913	A Woman's Wit	Producer
1913	The Reaping	Producer
1913	The Revelation	Producer
1913	Granddad	Producer
1913	The Crimson Stain	Producer
1913	In Love and War	Director
1913	The Boomerang	Director
1913	The Battle of Gettysburg	Director, Writer, Producer
1913	The Drummer of the 8th	Producer
1913	The Struggle	Director
1913	The Way of a Mother	Producer
1912	The Invaders	Director, Producer
1912	The Ball Player and the Bandit	Producer
1912	When Lee Surrenders	Director
1912	On Secret Service	Director, Producer
1912	Custer's Last Fight	Producer
1912	The Outcast	Director, Writer
1912	The Lieutenant's Last Fight	Director
1912	The Post Telegrapher	Director
1912	Blazing the Trail	Director
1912	The Deserter	Director, Writer
1912	The Heart of an Indian	Director, Producer
1912	War on the Plains	Director, Writer
1911	The Portrait	Director
1911	His Dress Shirt	Director
1911	The Better Way	Director
1911	The Sentinel Asleep	Director
1911	'Tween Two Loves	Director
1911	By the House That Jack Built	Director
1911	The Toss of a Coin	Director
1911	As a Boy Dreams	Director
1911	The Call of the Song	Director
1911	Behind the Times	Director
1911	The Skating Bug	Director
1911	At a Quarter of Two	Director
1911	A Gasoline Engagement	Director
1911	For the Queen's Honor	Director, Writer
1911	In the Sultan's Garden	Director
1911	Behind the Stockade	Director
1911	Back to the Soil	Director
1911	A Game of Deception	Producer
1911	The Lighthouse Keeper	Director
1911	The Master and the Man	Director
1911	For Her Brother's Sake	Director
1911	The Fair Dentist	Director
1911	Second Sight	Director
1911	The Hoyden	Producer
1911	The Stampede	Director, Writer
1911	Sweet Memories	Director, Writer
1911	In Old Madrid	Director
1911	The Fisher-Maid	Director
1911	The Message in the Bottle	Director
1911	Tracked	Director
1911	A Manly Man	Director
1911	Artful Kate	Director
1911	Pictureland	Director
1911	The Convert	Director
1911	At the Duke's Command	Director
1911	Her Darkest Hour	Director
1911	The Mirror	Director, Writer
1911	When the Cat's Away	Director
1911	Maid or Man	Director
1911	The Dream	Director
1911	Their First Misunderstanding	Director
1911	A Dog's Tale	Director
1910	Little Nell's Tobacco	Director
1910	The Rosary	Producer
1910	In Old California	Producer
1910	The Governor’s Pardon	Producer

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