J. Harrison Edwards
Writer and film director active in the 1920s
About J. Harrison Edwards
J. Harrison Edwards was a writer and film director.
He established Franco-Canadian Industrial Film Company to produce "industrial" and educational films. In 1921 he was an organizer of Colored Feature Photoplay Inc.
His film Square Joe was filmed in Harlem with boxers Joe Jeanette and John Lester Johnson among the African American cast.
Charles T. Dazey, who authored In Old Kentucky, wrote the titles and was hired to "inject local color into the text" of the film The Fighting Kentuckians. A Sterling Feature Pictures release, its cast included Thornton Bastion, Irma Harrison, Myra Brooks, Tom Burroughs, Adele Kelly, Colen Chase, Pete Raymond, and May Wick.
Filmography
The Fighting Kentuckians (1920) Square Joe (1922) Love Wins Six Episodes of the Hidden Hand alt title?
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