Frederick A. Thomson

Frederick Andrew Thomson, sometimes spelled Thompson, was a Canadian-born director of silent films in the United States.

Biography

Frederick Andrew Thomson was born in Montreal on August 7, 1869. He began his directing career in theater.
Thomson was credited by Helen Hayes for enabling her debut in Jean and the Calico Doll. She wrote in her 1968 memoir On Reflection that Thompson persuaded her mother to let her perform in the film for Vitagraph Studios, where he had begun working. The Brooklyn-based troupe traveled by ferry to Fort Lee, New Jersey, to film Jean and the Calico Doll with Maurice Costello and Florence Turner.
He died from heart disease at his home in West Hollywood on January 22, 1925.