Raymond Longford | |
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 Portrait of Raymond Longford, c. 1935 | |
| Born | John Walter Hollis Longford 23 September 1878 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 2 April 1959 (aged 80) North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Other names | Raymond Hollis Longford |
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| Years active | 1911–1941 |
| Spouses | Melena Louisa Keen
(m. 1900; div. 1926)Emilie Elizabeth Anschutz
(m. 1933) |
| Children | 1 |
Raymond Longford (born John Walter Hollis Longford; 23 September 1878 – 2 April 1959) was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer, and actor during the silent era.[1] Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell. His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including The Sentimental Bloke (1919) and The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inaugurated in 1968, to be named in his honour.