American film director
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Frederick A. Thomson (1869–1925), sometimes spelled Thompson , was a director of silent films in the United States.[ 1] He began his directing career in theater.[ 2]
Thomson was credited by Helen Hayes for enabling her debut in Jean and the Calico Doll . She wrote in her 1968 memoir On Reflection that Thompson persuaded her mother to let her perform in the film for Vitagraph Studios , where he had begun working. The Brooklyn-based troupe traveled by ferry to Fort Lee, New Jersey , to film Jean and the Calico Doll with Maurice Costello and Florence Turner .
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