Francis Boggs

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Francis Boggs
BornMarch 1870
Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
Died (aged 41)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Burial placeGraceland Cemetery
OccupationFilm director
Years active1907–1911

Francis Winter Boggs (March 1870 – October 27, 1911) was an American stage actor and pioneer

Hollywood
.

Biography

He was born in

William Nicholas Selig and in 1907 became involved with the making of motion pictures at Selig's Polyscope studios in Chicago. With cameraman and jack of all trades Thomas Persons, Boggs made one of his earliest films, Monte Cristo. He completed the interior shots at the Chicago studio, but shot the scenes of Edmond Dantès emerging from the sea at the beach near Los Angeles. [citation needed
]

Francis Boggs, with his back to the camera, directs a scene for The Girls of the Range, 1910.

In Chicago in 1908, he made

short films with him. [citation needed
]

Boggs' grave at Graceland Cemetery

Boggs was shot to death by Frank Minnimatsu on October 27, 1911, when Minnimatsu, a caretaker and janitor, who had been fired before the shooting for smoking cigarettes in the garage and while drunk firing shots into a gasoline tank in the garage, became violently deranged.

Nestor Studios in Hollywood, sounding the death knell for Edendale as the film production center of Los Angeles. Within two years, more than a dozen film companies would follow Boggs' example and establish facilities in and around Los Angeles.[citation needed
]

Boggs was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

His film The Sergeant was part of a group of seventy-five early American films found in New Zealand in 2010; the film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.[4]

References

  1. ^ Drew, William L. "California's First Film Studio". Early Hollywood Films and Movie Stars. William L. Drew. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "Nippon Killer Blandly Smiles. Japanese Caretaker of Moving Picture Studio, Who Killed Manager of Concern Because He "Knew He Was Bad Man" Is Bound Over Charged". Los Angeles Times. November 9, 1911. Archived from the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved July 16, 2008. Frank Minnimatsu, the Japanese janitor who shot and killed Francis Boggs, manager of the moving picture company which has a studio in Edendale, was given a preliminary examination before Police Judge Rose yesterday and held for trial in the Superior Court.
  3. ^ The Billboard 1911-11-04: Vol 23 Iss 44. Internet Archive. Prometheus Global Media. November 4, 1911.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

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