Joe De Grasse

Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.

Biography Joseph De Grasse had studied and was a first-class graduate of accounting and he began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored with the theater and took work as a stage actor. In 1903, he quit his full-time job as the City of Boston's bookkeeper to pursue acting.

Filmography Director

Her Bounty (1914) The Pipes o' Pan (1914) Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914) Her Life's Story (1914) Lights and Shadows (1914) The Lion, the Lamb, the Man (1914) A Night of Thrills (1914) Her Escape (1914) The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915) The Star of the Sea (1915) The Measure of a Man (1915) The Threads of Fate (1915) When the Gods Played a Badger Game (1915) Such Is Life (1915) Where the Forest Ends (1915) Outside the Gates (1915) All for Peggy (1915) The Desert Breed (1915) Maid of the Mist (1915) The Grind (1915) The Girl of the Night (1915) An Idyll of the Hills (1915) The Stronger Mind (1915) Steady Company (1915) Bound on the Wheel (1915) Mountain Justice (1915) The Pine's Revenge (1915) The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915) Alas and Alack (1915) A Mother's Atonement (1915) Lon of Lone Mountain (1915) The Millionaire Paupers (1915) Under a Shadow (1915) Father and the Boys (1915) Stronger Than Death (1915) Dolly's Scoop (1916) The Grip of Jealousy (1916) Tangled Hearts (1916) The Gilded Spider (1916) Bobbie of the Ballet (1916) The Grasp of Greed (1916) The Mark of Cain (1916) If My Country Should Call (1916) The Place Beyond the Winds (1916) The Price of Silence (1916) The Piper's Price (1917) Hell Morgan's Girl (1917) The Mask of Love (1917) The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917) A Doll's House (1917) Pay Me! (1917) Triumph (1917) The Empty Gun (1917) Anything Once (1917) The Winged Mystery (1917) The Scarlet Car (1917) The Fighting Grin (1918) A Broadway Scandal (1918) The Brand of Lopez (1920) 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920) Bonnie May (1920) Thundergate (1923) Flowing Gold (1924)

Actor The Place Beyond the Winds (1916) - Anton Farwell Triumph (1917) - Man at Theatre (uncredited) After the War (1918) So Big (1924) - Simeon Peake The Cowboy Kid (1928) - John Grover The Drunkard (1935) - Mr. Miller The Dawn Rider (1935) - Dad Mason The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936, Serial) - Dr. Cummings (uncredited) (final film role)

Preservation The three surviving reels of De Grasse's film Triumph were restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.