- Born
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- Birth nameHubert Herkomer
- Herkomer was a painter who founded an art school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in the 1880s. His film company produced only a handful of films, of which not a single can appears to have survived. He was widely credited with pushing cinema to new artistic heights, with bringing down the pace of the action to a more realistic speed and with taking more care than most with his period costumes and settings. He commissioned scripts from literary sources, notably the novels of Marie Corelli and Thomas Hardy, but none of these seem to have made it on to the screen.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankhlittle@hotmail.com (based on article by Matthew Sweet)
- SpousesMargaret Griffiths(September 2, 1888 - March 31, 1914) (his death, 2 children)Lulu Griffiths(1884 - 1885) (her death)Anna Weise (1873 - 1883) (her death, 2 children)
- After the tragic death of his first wife Lulu, he married her sister Margaret three years later.
- Opened the Herkomer Art School in Bushey, England (1883).
- Established a studio in his mansion Lululaund, making him pioneering filmmaker.
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