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Floyd Martin Thornton (often credited as F. Martin Thornton, November 4, 1884 – April 1, 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director active in the United Kingdom in the 1910s and 1920s.[1]

Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England. In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex.[2] They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin (1916–2010) and Paul Mulford Martin (1921–1994).[3] In 1925 he and his family left the UK for America,[3] where they all remained for the rest of their lives.

He died in April 1956 in Orange, California.

Selected filmography

Director

• Santa Claus (1912)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914)
• Dead Men Tell No Tales, 1914 short film
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1914) first feature-length dramatic film made in Kinemacolor
• The New Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1915)
• The Faith of a Child (1915)
• Jane Shore (1915)
• The Man Who Bought London (1916)
• Love's Old Sweet Song (1917)
• A Man the Army Made (1917)
• The Happy Warrior (1917)
• The Great Impostor (1918)
• A Romany Lass (1918)
• Nature's Gentleman (1918)
• The Splendid Coward (1918)
• The Knave of Hearts (1919)
• The Flame (1920)
• The Iron Stair (1920)
• Bars of Iron (1920)
• My Lord Conceit (1921)
• Frailty (1921)
• The Prey of the Dragon (1921)
• Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills (1921)
• Lamp in the Desert (1922)
• Belonging (1922)
• Melody of Death (1922)
• Little Brother of God (1922)
• Women and Diamonds (1924)
• Mutiny (1925)

References

External links

• Floyd Martin Thornton at IMDb

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