Joseph Byron Totten

Joseph Byron Totten was a playwright and an actor in theater[1] and silent films in the United States. He also directed films for Vitagraph.

He was an actor for Essanay. He had a 47 acre farm in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut where he kept horses, cattle, and a kennel.[2]

He wrote No Gold Could Buy Her, No One Pity Her, The Cowboy and the Squaw, The Ranchman's Daughter, The Queen of the Cowboys, and The First Lady in the Land, both copyrighted in 1907.[3] He wrote the play Spook House.[4] He wrote The Forger, "a society problem play", copyrightednin 1908.[5] He wrote and directed Lighthouse by the Sea, cooyrighted in 1915.[6] He also cooyrighted the 3-reel, 3-act, The Boys Will Be Boys in 1915.[7]

He wrote the play The World and a Woman.[8] actor writer director

He wrote a dramatization of Harold McGrath's novel The Woman Armsan. It was staged in 1915.[9] He wrote and staged Love's Call. He was described as having a "primitive passion for triplicate nomenclature".[10]

He wrote the words to the song "Piquita" with music by Arthur Bergh, copyrighted in 1925.[11]

In 1917 he starred in Some Crooks.[12]

In 1925, Charles Sidney Gilpin starred in his play So That's That.[13][14]

He was a member of the Authors League of America.[15]

Filmography

Lobby card for The Dream, a Vitagraph short atarring Alice Calhoun

References

  1. ^ "Dramatic Mirror of the Stage and Motion Pictures". Dramatic Mirror Company. November 24, 1917 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Nickelodeon". November 24, 1915 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 24, 1907). "Catalog of Copyright Entries". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  4. ^ https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/291397
  5. ^ Office, Copyright (November 24, 1908). "Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Books, Dramatic Compositions, Maps and Charts" – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Works of art. Part 4". Library of Congress, Copyright Office. November 24, 1915 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Works of art. Part 4". Library of Congress, Copyright Office. November 24, 1915 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "The New York Dramatic Mirror". Dramatic Mirror Company. November 24, 1909 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ "The Stage Year Book, with which is Included the Stage Periodical Guide". Carson & Comerford. November 24, 1915 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Hutchens, John K.; Oppenheimer, George (November 24, 1973). "The Best in the World: A Selection of News and Feature Stories, Editorials, Humor, Poems, and Reviews from 1921 to 1928". Viking Press – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 24, 1926). "Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Reedy's Mirror" – via books.google.com.
  13. ^ "Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography" – via books.google.com.
  14. ^ "New York Star" – via books.google.com.
  15. ^ "Bulletin of the Authors' League of America" – via books.google.com.
  16. ^ a b "The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film" – via books.google.com.
  17. ^ a b "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette" – via books.google.com.