Joseph Smiley — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Joseph Smiley [Joseph W. Smiley], they call him. His disposition is naturally that way and people seem to sense it, for he springs into immediate favoritism everywhere.

He is a director and is beloved of all the children who know him. That is why he is given charge of the productions which the Lubin little people make so desirable and which are testimonials to the patience and care of the children’s director.

It was under his guidance that the Buster series of pictures were made in which those taking part ranged from three and one-half to nine years of age. Boston is the Smiley home city and the stage — first, legitimate, and now photoplay — has benefited by all of Smiley’s working days.

He was with Fanny Davenport and the Klaw and Erlanger productions for a number of years and later Liebler and company sent him to Australia to produce “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.”

He also has to his credit the direction of a photoplay studio in Havana.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, January 1913