Floyd Martin Thornton


Floyd Martin Thornton was an American screenwriter and film director active in the United Kingdom in the 1910s and 1920s. He also directed films for the Natural Color Kinematograph Company.
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. They had two sons, both born in England: Edward E. Martin and Paul Mulford Martin. In 1925 he and his family left the UK for America, where they all remained for the rest of their lives.
He died in April 1956 in Orange, California.

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