Lamar Johnstone

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Born
Edward Lamar Johnstone

March 15, 1884
DiedMay 19, 1919(1919-05-19) (aged 35)
OthernamesLamar Johnson or Lamar Johnston
OccupationActor
Lamar Johnstone
Johnstone in 1915
Born
Edward Lamar Johnstone

March 15, 1884
DiedMay 19, 1919(1919-05-19) (aged 35)
Other namesLamar Johnson or Lamar Johnston
OccupationActor
Years active1911–1919

Edward Lamar Johnstone (March 15, 1884 – May 21, 1919) was an American silent film actor and director.

Johnstone (left) with Dorothy Gibson in the 1912 comedy The Lucky Hold Up now housed in the Library of Congress, the only one of their films to survive

Born in Fairfax, Virginia, Johnstone starred in 82 films as an actor between 1911 and his death in 1919. He often starred alongside Dorothy Gibson, an actress who survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Johnstone directed three films; one in 1913 called Truth in the Wilderness, starring Charlotte Burton, The Turning Point (1914), and The Unforgiven (1915). In the 1916 serial Secret of the Submarine, Johnstone got to fly Juanita Hansen in a Curtiss Model D pusher biplane.[1]

Death

Johnstone died on May 21, 1919, in Palm Springs, California, his cause of death was heart attack.

Filmography

References

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