Joseph A. Golden
Joseph A. Golden was a silent film director and screenwriter in the United States. His films include A Woman's Wit and Resurrection. He began working in film in 1907, directing the one-reel film The Hypnotist's Revenge for American Mutoscope & Biograph.
Golden worked for Biograph until Jeremiah Kennedy's arrival in 1907. He was then the chief director at Triumph Film Corporation. In 1910, he worked for Pat Powers' production company, directing a few films with Pearl White. Specializing in adventure films and westerns, he moved on to work for Selig Polyscope. In 1911 alone, he made thirty films. In his career as a director, which lasted thirteen years to 1920, he directed 75 films. From 1911 to 1924, he wrote the screenplay for at least twelve films, most of which he also directed. In 1915, he produced Divorced, directed by Edward Warren and shot in New York. Golden also worked at Crystal Studios with Ludwig G. B. Erb. He died in Los Angeles.
Filmography
This is a partial filmography. Golden was the director unless stated otherwise.The Hypnotist's Revenge The Tired Tailor's Dream Terrible Ted His Mother's Letter The Girl from Arizona The Horse Shoer's Girl The Burlesque Queen The Matinee Idol The Music Teacher A Woman's Wit The New Magdalen The Woman Hater When the World Sleeps Helping Him Out The Angel of the Slums A Novel Experiment Montana Anna The Visiting Nurse, director and screenwriterThe Mission Worker, director and screenwriterThe New Editor His Birthday Two Lives The Warrant The Tale of a Soldier's Ring A Fair Exchange, director and screenwriterA Tennessee Love Story, director and screenwriterA Prisoner of the Mohicans For Massa's Sake Told in Colorado, director and screenwriterWhy the Sheriff Is a Bachelor, screenwriter and co-directed with Tom MixLove Molds Labor Western Hearts, director and screenwriterThe Terms of the WillThe Power of Love Love's Renunciation The Reporter The Lost Necklace Her Little Slipper For the Honor of the Name A Nation's Peril The Arrowmaker's Daughter The Hand of Destiny Pals Resurrection The Man from the North Pole The Girl in the Next Room Oh, Such a Night! The Gypsy Flirt The Quarrel Locked Out The Compact The Mad Lover The Eye of a God, director and screenwriterThe Secret Formula The Count of Monte Cristo, co-directed with Edwin S. PorterHearts and Flowers Divorced, as producer only; film directed by Edward WarrenLady Audley's Secret The Masqueraders The Trunk Mystery Fine Feathers, an adaptation of Fine Feathers (play)The Master of the House The Price, director and screenwriterThe Better Woman Not Guilty The Senator, an adaptation of The Senator (play)Behind Closed Doors or Love's Crossroads The Prima Donna's Husband, co-directed with Julius SteigerThe Libertine The Law of Compensation Redemption, co-directed with Julius SteigerWolves of Kultur, director and screenwriterThe Great Gamble, director and screenwriterThe Whirlwind, director and screenwriterThe Fatal Plunge, screenwriter