Charles Urban
Known for
Producing
Born
April 15, 1867
Birthplace
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died
August 29, 1942 (aged 75)
Biography
Charles Urban is an American producer, director, cinematographer and editor born April 14, 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio (United States), died August 29, 1942 in Brighton (United Kingdom).
Urban made many types of non-fiction films at the Charles Urban Trading Company, including travel films, war reports, exploration films, sports films, commercials and natural history films. Filmmakers who worked for him include Jack Avery, Joseph Rosenthal, Charles Rider Noble, Harold Mease Lomas, mountaineer Frank Ormiston-Smith, George Rogers, J. Gregory Mantle, and naturalist F. Percy Smith. Smith directed one of Urban's most successful films, The Balancing Bluebottle (1908), which featured a fly balancing...
Best known work
The Coronation of Edward VII
1902
The Battle of the Somme
1916
The Birth of a Flower
1910
A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
1910
The Aerial Submarine
1910
Cheese Mites
1903
Banks of the Nile
1911
The Four Seasons
1921The Aerial Anarchists
1911
The Arlberg Railway
1906Filmography
1923
Armenia, Cradle of HumanityDirector
1921
The Four SeasonsDirector, Editor
1916
The Battle of the SommeEditor
1915
Britain PreparedDirector
1915
Fight for the DardanellesProducer, Editor
1914
1912
Glasgow and the Clyde CoastProducer
1912
The Pageant ProcessionProducer
1911
Varieties of Sweet PeasProducer
1911
The Aerial AnarchistsProducer
1911
A Run with the Exmoor StaghoundsProducer
1911
1911
1911
1911
Banks of the NileProducer, Director
1911
Trilby and SvengaliProducer
1910
The Birth of a FlowerProducer
1910
The Aerial SubmarineProducer
1910
Fording the RiverProducer
1910
Lake Garda, ItalyProducer
1910
1909
A Dash to the North PoleProducer
1908
The HarvestProducer
1908
1907