A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Lloyd F. Lonergan
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Born:
March 3, 1870
Died:
April 6, 1937
Born in Chicago, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children of Thomas Lonergan, a newspaper publisher. His mother was a writer for various newspapers, and eventually all of his siblings became newspaper writers too. Lonergan attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. He later went to work for the William Randolph Hearst organization as a newspaper and magazine writer and worked on a number of newspapers, including the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening World. He was eventually hired by the newly formed Thanhouser Company as a scriptwriter, and penned the company's first picture, The Actor's Children (1910). He later married Molly Homan, the sister of Thanhouser founder Edwin Thanhouser's wife. He left Thanhouser in 1915 after company executive (and his close friend) Charles J. Hite was killed in an auto accident and founder Edwin Thanhouser sold the company to an investor syndicate. Lonergan went to work for Universal Pictures as a scriptwriter. However, Thanhouser returned and bought the company back not long afterwards —the new owners had no idea how to run a film studio and were losing a fortune— and Lonergan also returned, staying for the next two years. In 1917, as the studio's fortunes declined and it was on its last legs, Lonergan left for good. He retired for a while, but came back in late 1917 to edit the serial The Million Dollar Mystery (1914) into a feature to be re-released by Arrow Film Corp. He later returned to scriptwriting also, although mostly for low-budget independents, and wrote such films as A Common Level (1920) for Transatlantic Films, Why Women Sin (1920) for Wisteria Productions and My Lady's Garter (1920) for Maurice Tourneur Productions. He died in New York City on April 6, 1937, after a long illness.
Director:
1910 Daddy's Double
1913 While Baby Slept
Scenario Writer:
1910 Daddy's Double
1912 Jess
1912 Lucile
1912 The Woman in White
1912 Undine
1913 Moths
1913 Peggy's Invitation
1913 While Baby Slept
1914 A Woman's Loyalty
1917 The Man Without a Country
Screenplay:
1910 Daddy's Double
1912 Jess
1912 Lucile
1912 The Woman in White
1912 Undine
1913 Moths
1913 Peggy's Invitation
1913 While Baby Slept
1914 A Woman's Loyalty
1914 The Million Dollar Mystery
1917 The Man Without a Country
Story:
1910 Daddy's Double
1912 Jess
1912 Lucile
1912 The Woman in White
1912 Undine
1913 Moths
1913 Peggy's Invitation
1913 While Baby Slept
1914 A Woman's Loyalty
1914 The Million Dollar Mystery
1916 The Net
1917 The Man Without a Country
1917 Under False Colors
Writer:
1910 Daddy's Double
1910 The Actor's Children
1910 The Winter's Tale
1910 Young Lord Stanley
1912 A Romance of the U.S.N.
1912 Flying to Fortune
1912 For Sale -- A Life
1912 Into the Desert
1912 Jess
1912 Jilted
1912 Love's Miracle
1912 Lucile
1912 Now Watch the Professor
1912 Pa's Medicine
1912 Rejuvenation
1912 Star of Bethlehem
1912 The Girl of the Grove
1912 The Other Half
1912 The Portrait of Lady Anne
1912 The Ring of a Spanish Grandee
1912 The Russian Mute
1912 The Saleslady
1912 The Woman in White
1912 Under Two Flags
1912 Undine
1912 Whom God Hath Joined
1913 Moths
1913 Peggy's Invitation
1913 Robin Hood
1913 The Farmer's Daughters
1913 When the Studio Burned
1913 While Baby Slept
1914 A Woman's Loyalty
1914 An Elusive Diamond
1914 From Wash to Washington
1914 Joseph in the Land of Egypt
1914 The Cat's Paw
1914 The Million Dollar Mystery
1914 The Mohammedan's Conspiracy
1914 Zudora
1915 Clarence Cheats at Croquet
1915 Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor
1915 The Marvelous Marathoner
1915 The Soap Suds Star
1915 Toodles, Tom and Trouble
1916 The Net
1916 The Traffic Cop
1917 A Modern Monte Cristo
1917 Mary Lawson's Secret
1917 The Man Without a Country
1917 The Woman in White
1917 Under False Colors
1921 The Highest Bidder
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