Edwin S. Porter
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American film director
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include: What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City ; Jack and the Beanstalk ; Life of an American Fireman ; The Great Train Robbery ; The European Rest Cure ; The Kleptomaniac ; Life of a Cowboy ; Rescued from an Eagle's Nest ; and The Prisoner of Zenda .