Lawrence B. McGill

Lawrence B. McGill (1866–1928) was an American actor and director. At the turn of the 20th century, he was a leading man for Keystone Dramatic Company. He produced stage plays and then went on to act and direct films. He also worked for the New York Reliance-Mutual Company.

Career Lawrence McGill was a director, writer, and actor. In 1909, McGill began producing plays, with Gertrude as the leading lady and Richard Gordon her new leading man, at the Lyric Theater in Buffalo, New York. They opened with Dorothy Hernan of Haddon Hall, an Elizabethan period piece. Shipman operated the Gertrude Shipman and Associated Players for other plays for McGill's production. Actor George Brott featured in two films produced by McGill, The Deserted Wife and Love's Young Dream, by 1925. He was brought on as a director at Champion Productions. He also worked for the New York Reliance-Mutual Company.

Personal life Lawrence Barrett McGill born on February 22, 1866, in Courtland, Mississippi, where he grew up. He was the son of Iona A. Trantham and Archibald D. McGill. first to Elizabeth Amann, with whom they had a daughter, Vida Iona McGill who was born on March 19, 1894. at the Central Presbyterian Church. Shipman and McGill had a son, Edmund Robert McGill, who was born August 18, 1904, in Connecticut. McGill died on February 22, 1928, in Waldo. Pierre of the Plains (1914) The Price He Paid (1914) Sealed Valley (1915) How Molly Made Good (1915) The Amazing Mr. Fellman (1915) The Woman's Law (1916) Crime and Punishment (1917) The Angel Factory (1917) The First Law (film) (1918) The Girl from Bohemia (1918) A Woman's Experience (1919), as Nicholas Barrable