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William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era.
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.
King Baggot was born on 15 August 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Last Starfighter (1984), American Gigolo (1980) and Revenge of the Nerds (1984).
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.
His was a career of firsts, a significant and seminal figure in early American silent film history. St. Louis should be proud of King Baggot, this native son who deserves a place in our local cinema arts history alongside Vincent Price, Betty Grable, Shelly Winters, and John Goodman.
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era.
Sep 20, 2016 · King Baggot, the first ‘King of the Movies’ died July 11th, 1948 penniless and mostly forgotten at age 68. A St. Louis native, Baggot was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known is his heyday as “The Most Photographed Man in the World” and “More Famous Than the Man in the Moon”.
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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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Bagget, who was born and raised in St. Louis, was the first internationally famous movie star of the silent era and 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.”
King Baggot is an American cinematographer. He is the grandson of the silent film actor and director King Baggot.
