Dell Henderson (1917) 🇺🇸

Dell Henderson, who is now directing for the Empire All Star Corporation, has had enough varied experience to equip half a dozen directors. Away back in the old Biograph days, Mr. Henderson was leading man for Mary Pickford.

He played a number of roles and was so successful that thoughts of ever participating in the technical end never entered his mind.

Everything about the motion picture industry appealed to Mr. Henderson from the start as an actor. He was always appreciative of new lighting effects, different ways of landing situations, etc., and as improved technique and photography came along, Mr. Henderson was the first to look into it.

The consequences of this mental activity was that when David Griffith [D. W. Griffith] opened his western studio in California, Mr. Henderson was sent out to direct the new company. Not, however, before Mr. Griffith had personally trained Mr. Henderson in the art of motion picture direction. Some of the stars that have been under his direction are the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy [Lillian Gish | Dorothy Gish], Henry Walthall, Mabel Normand, Blanche Sweet, and Mack Sennett.

At present Mr. Henderson is busily at work at the Mirror Studio, where the Empire All Star Corporation is engaged in turning the Charles Frohman successes into motion pictures.

Mr. Henderson is very enthusiastic about the latest star he has introduced to the screen, Julia Sanderson, who has recently completed her first picture, The Runaway.

Other pictures he has recently completed for the Empire All Star and that are to be released through the Mutual are Ann Murdock in Outcast, The Impostor and The Beautiful Adventure.

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Pathé Managerial Assignments.

C. W. Perry, Pathé’s manager at Detroit, has been made manager at Boston. G. W. Fuller, formerly manager at Pittsburgh, succeeds Mr. Perry in Detroit.

Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1917