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Nov 1, 2018 · The present King Baggot, who was born in Washington, D. C. in 1943, is Phillips' godson. "I started in 1964 as a newsreel cameraman," Baggot told AC. "I worked for ABC from 1964 through 1977 and won five Emmys for news camera coverage, shooting such events as the Watts riots and the Robert Kennedy 1968 acceptance speech in which he was ...
King Baggot. Actor: Jim Webb, Senator. St. Louis-born King Baggot traveled to New York City with the express intent of crashing Broadway, but began his film career in nearby Fort Lee, NJ, in 1909. It didn't take long before he graduated from actor to writer and director--at times performing all three functions; in Shadows (1914) he not only directed but played ten different parts--and his ...
King Baggot William King Baggot was an American actor, director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as “King of the Movies,” “The Most Photographed Man in the World” and “The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon.”
Sep 11, 2002 · King Baggot began making films for Carl Laemmle in 1909 and was a major star from 1910 to 1916. Baggot then gained renown as a director in the 1920s and as a character actor in the 1930s and 1940s, but perhaps most notably, he was the first publicized leading man in America.
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King Baggot is an American cinematographer. He is the grandson of the silent film actor and director King Baggot.
Apr 27, 2010 · King Baggot: A Biography and Filmography of the First King of the Movies [Dumaux, Sally A.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. King Baggot: A Biography and Filmography of the First King of the Movies
Rugged, handsome star of action and adventure movies who was among the first performers to be billed by name. Baggot later turned to directing, most impressively with "Tumbleweeds" (1925), starring cowboy star William S. Hart. He helmed his last film in 1928 and two years later resumed his...
