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William K.L. Dickson

Name in Native Language: "William Kennedy Dickson" (English/EN)
Film Director / Film Producer / Cinematographer / Actor / Photographer / Engineer / Camera Operator / Screenwriter | * 08/03/1860 († 75, 09/28/1935) | Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse (France)
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. ()

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Comedies | Drama
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Movies with William K.L. Dickson as Actor(6)

as Man on left of picture1898 Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
as himself1898 Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
as himself1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
as himself1893 Horse Shoeing
1892 A Hand Shake
as himself1891 Dickson Greeting

Movies with William K.L. Dickson as Crew(175)

Directing/Director2020 The Brilliant Biograph: Earliest Moving Images of Europe (1897-1902)
Directing/Director1903 Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
Directing/Director1903 Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Ascent
Directing/Director1903 Captain Deasy's Daring Drive, Descent
Camera/Director of Photography1901 Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
Directing/Director1901 Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
Directing/Director1901 Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
Directing/Director1900 Four Warships in Rough Seas
Camera/Director of Photography1900 Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith
Camera/Director of Photography1900 Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
Directing/Director1900 Warships at Sunset
Directing/Director1900 Tram Journey through Southampton
Camera/Director of Photography1900 Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
Directing/Director1899 Orphan Girls in Amsterdam
Camera/Director of Photography1899 Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp
Directing/Director1899 In the Friedrichstrasse
Camera/Director of Photography1899 Launch of the 'Oceanic'
Directing/Director1899 Launch of the 'Oceanic'
Directing/Director1899 Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
Directing/Director1899 London Fire Brigade, Alarm
Camera/Director of Photography1899 Tapping a Blast Furnace
Directing/Director1899 Tapping a Blast Furnace
Directing/Director1899 Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
Directing/Director1899 In a German Bath
Directing/Director1899 Man Overboard!
Camera/Director of Photography1899 The American Biograph in Circus O. Carré
Directing/Director1899 Flower Parade in Haarlem
Directing/Director1899 Away Aloft
Camera/Director of Photography1899 Repairing the Broken Bridge at Frere
Directing/Director1899 Amann, the Great Impersonator
Directing/Director1899 From Monte Carlo to Monaco
Directing/Director1899 Fun on a Sand Hill
Camera/Director of Photography1899 Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
Camera/Director of Photography1899 The Lane on Sunday Morning
Directing/Director1899 King John
Directing/Director1898 Duel to the Death
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
Directing/Director1898 Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
Directing/Director1898 The Unwilling Draught Dog
Directing/Director1898 Scheveningen
Directing/Director1898 Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
Directing/Director1898 A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
Directing/Director1898 Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore
Directing/Director1898 From War to Peace
Directing/Director1898 Mills from the Zaanstreek
Directing/Director1898 Maidenhead Junction
Directing/Director1898 Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
Directing/Director1898 Upside Down Boxers
Directing/Director1898 The Boulevard of Scheveningen
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Me and My Two Friends
Directing/Director1898 He and She
Directing/Director1898 Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
Directing/Director1898 Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
Camera/Director of Photography1898 The Grand Canal, Venice
Directing/Director1898 The Grand Canal, Venice
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse
Directing/Director1898 Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
Directing/Director1898 Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
Directing/Director1898 The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
Directing/Director1898 Procession of Capuchin Monks
Camera/Director of Photography1898 Pelicans at the Zoo
Directing/Director1898 Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel
Directing/Director1897 Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
Directing/Director1897 Les Parisiennes
Directing/Director1897 Place de la Concorde
Directing/Director1897 Firing the Maxim Gun
Directing/Director1897 Bath Scene
Directing/Director1897 Changing Guard (Berlin)
Directing/Director1897 A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
Directing/Director1897 Home Life of a Hungarian Family
Camera/Director of Photography1897 Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House
Directing/Director1897 Crissie Sheridan
Directing/Director1897 Has He Hit Me?
Directing/Director1896 Rip's Toast to Hudson
Camera/Director of Photography1896 McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
Production/Producer1896 Little Egypt
Directing/Director1896 Rip Van Winkle
Directing/Director1896 Sandow
Writing/Writer1896 Sandow
Directing/Director1896 Dancing Darkies
Directing/Director1896 Awakening of Rip
Directing/Director1896 Rip Passing Over the Mountain
Directing/Director1896 Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
Directing/Director1896 Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
Directing/Director1896 Rip's Toast
Directing/Director1896 Rip Meeting the Dwarf
Directing/Director1896 Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
Directing/Director1896 Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
Directing/Director1895 Annabelle Serpentine Dance
Directing/Director1895 Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
Directing/Director1895 New Blacksmith Shop
Directing/Director1895 James Grundy, Buck and Wing
Directing/Director1895 Billy Edwards and the Unknown
Production/Producer1895 Billy Edwards and the Unknown
Directing/Director1894 The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
Directing/Director1894 The Cock Fight
Directing/Director1894 Dance
Directing/Director1894 Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
Directing/Director1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Production/Producer1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Sound/Musician1894 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Directing/Director1894 Glenroy Bros., No. 2
Production/Producer1894 Glenroy Bros., No. 2
Directing/Director1894 Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Directing/Director1894 Buffalo Dance
Directing/Director1894 Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Production/Producer1894 Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
Directing/Director1894 Bucking Broncho
Directing/Director1894 Sioux Ghost Dance
Directing/Director1894 Annabelle Sun Dance
Directing/Director1894 Band Drill
Directing/Director1894 Chinese Laundry Scene
Directing/Director1894 Hadj Cheriff
Directing/Director1894 Imperial Japanese Dance
Directing/Director1894 Buffalo Bill
Directing/Director1894 Leonard-Cushing Fight
Directing/Director1894 Carmencita
Production/Producer1894 Carmencita
Directing/Director1894 Fire Rescue Scene
Directing/Director1894 Rats and Weasel
Directing/Director1894 The Barbershop
Production/Producer1894 The Barbershop
Directing/Director1894 The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
Directing/Director1894 Rat Killing
Directing/Director1894 Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Directing/Director1894 Mexican Knife Duel
Directing/Director1894 Indian War Council
Directing/Director1894 Highland Dance
Directing/Director1894 Unsuccessful Somersault
Directing/Director1894 Wrestling Match
Directing/Director1894 Rats and Terrier No. 3
Directing/Director1894 Caicedo (with Pole)
Production/Producer1894 Caicedo (with Pole)
Directing/Director1894 Athlete with Wand
Production/Producer1894 Athlete with Wand
Directing/Director1894 Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Production/Producer1894 Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Directing/Director1894 The Boxing Cats
Production/Producer1894 The Boxing Cats
Directing/Director1894 Lasso Thrower
Directing/Director1894 Chinese Opium Den
Directing/Director1894 Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Production/Producer1894 Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Directing/Director1894 Annie Oakley
Directing/Director1894 Trained Bears
Directing/Director1894 Cock Fight, No. 2
Production/Producer1894 Cock Fight, No. 2
Directing/Director1893 Horse Shoeing
Directing/Director1893 Blacksmith Scene
Production/Producer1893 Blacksmith Scene
Directing/Director1892 Fencing
Production/Producer1892 Fencing
Directing/Director1892 A Hand Shake
Production/Producer1892 A Hand Shake
Directing/Director1892 Man on Parallel Bars
Directing/Director1892 Boxing
Production/Producer1892 Boxing
Directing/Director1892 Wrestling
Directing/Director1891 Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
Directing/Director1891 Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
Directing/Director1891 Monkey and Another, Boxing
Directing/Director1891 Duncan Smoking
Directing/Director1891 Newark Athlete
Production/Producer1891 Newark Athlete
Directing/Director1891 Dickson Greeting
Production/Producer1891 Dickson Greeting
Directing/Director1891 Men Boxing
Production/Producer1891 Men Boxing
Directing/Director1890 Monkeyshines, No. 1
Production/Producer1890 Monkeyshines, No. 1
Directing/Director1890 Monkeyshines, No. 2
Production/Producer1890 Monkeyshines, No. 2
Directing/Director1890 Monkeyshines, No. 3

Born: Friday, 08/03 1860 (August) in Chateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse (France)
Died: Saturday, 09/28 1935 (September) in Twickenham (aged: 75)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Monkey)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Member of: Royal Geographical Society
Represented by: Light Cone
Siblings: Antonia Dickson
Other names for William K.L. Dickson (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson"
"W.K-L. Dickson"
"William Dickson"
"W.K.L. Dickson"
"WKL Dickson"
"William Kennedy Dickson"
"William K. L. Dickson"
William K.L. Dickson frequently works together with these people:
William Heise (66x, Crew)
Joseph Jefferson (9x, Actor)
Washington Irving (7x, Crew)
Emile Lauste (4x, Crew)
Annabelle Moore (4x, Actress)
James C. Duncan (3x, Cast)
Frank Roumen (3x, Crew)
Herbert Beerbohm Tree (2x, Actor)
Fred Ott (2x, Actor)
Billy Bitzer (2x, Crew)
John Ott (2x, Cast)
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