Sidney Olcott

Sidney Olcott was born on Sep 20, 1873 in Canada. Sidney Olcott's big-screen debut came with Ben Hur directed by Sidney Olcott in 1907. Sidney Olcott is known for The Humming Bird directed by Sidney Olcott, Gloria Swanson stars as Toinette and Edmund Burns as Randall Carey. The upcoming new movie Sidney Olcott plays is The Claw which will be released on May 09, 1927.

Prolific silent film director, the son of Irish immigrants. Olcott started as an actor on the New York stage and then appeared in films for Mutoscope in 1904, eventually working his way up to general manager of Biograph. Lured away to a rival company he began to direct features for Kalem by 1907. That year, he became embroiled in a hitherto unprecedented lawsuit (which dragged on for four years), since he had filmed