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Was Mary Pickford's first leading man.

Worked with D.W. Griffith at Biograph until 1913, then acting for Griffith's own production company. By the 1920s he had switched his main career to director, specializing in bringing Broadway plays to the screen.

Stage actor and film director.

Off screen pseudonym: Charles Bery

Brother of John T. Dillon, Marcella Dillon of New York.

One late night, in June 1915, he came home to find his bungalow on fire, as W.E. Lawrence, Chester Withey, Irene Hunt, Walter Long, Teddy Sampson, George Siegmann, Fay Tincher, Ford Sterling, Franc Newman and George Beranger, all wearing pajamas, tried to put out the flames. Their work was praised by the Los Angeles fire department, which found that the blaze had been caused by crossed wires, causing apparently serious damage.