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William K.L. Dickson

Personal Information

Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Born / DiedAug 3, 1860 (Died at 75)
Zodiac Sign♌Leo
Place of BirthChateau St. Buc, Minihic-sur-Ranse, France
Known Credits170 Titles
Official Links
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DirectingPopularity Score 0.9

William K.L. Dickson

Also known as:William Kennedy-Laurie DicksonW.K-L. DicksonWilliam DicksonW.K.L. Dickson +1 more
Total Works

170

170 movies • 0 shows

Avg Rating

4.7 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

Biography

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a Scottish inventor and the Edison Manufacturing Company's official photographer. In 1889, he was assigned to turn the concept of a the proposed motion picture device, named the Kinetoscope, into a reality. The first working prototype was unveiled in May 1891 and the design of system was essentially finalised by the fall of 1892. The completed version of the Kinetoscope was officially unveiled at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on 9 May 1893.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Dickson Experimental Sound Film
6.1
as Self
Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
6.0
Role: Director
Annie Oakley
6.0
Annie Oakley
1894•movie
Role: Director
Caicedo (with Pole)
6.0
Role: Producer

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 170 titles featuring William K.L. Dickson

Dickson Experimental Sound Film
6.1

as Self

Blacksmith Scene
5.6
Blacksmith Scene
1893•movie

Role: Director

Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
6.0

Role: Director

Monkeyshines, No. 1
5.1

Role: Director

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
4.8

Role: Producer

Newark Athlete
4.6
Newark Athlete
1891•movie

Role: Producer

Carmencita
5.2
Carmencita
1894•movie

Role: Director

Dickson Greeting
5.0
Dickson Greeting
1891•movie

as Self

Sandow
5.2
Sandow
1896•movie

Role: Director

Annie Oakley
6.0
Annie Oakley
1894•movie

Role: Director

The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
5.9

Role: Director

Monkeyshines, No. 2
4.7

Role: Director

Annabelle Butterfly Dance
5.5

Role: Producer

Men Boxing
4.2
Men Boxing
1891•movie

Role: Producer

Caicedo (with Pole)
6.0

Role: Producer

Sandow: The Strong Man
5.1

Role: Producer

Buffalo Dance
4.8
Buffalo Dance
1894•movie

Role: Director

The Barber Shop
5.1
The Barber Shop
1894•movie

Role: Producer

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
4.8

Role: Director

Awakening of Rip
4.2
Awakening of Rip
1896•movie

Role: Director

A Hand Shake
3.6
A Hand Shake
1892•movie
Sioux Ghost Dance
4.9
Sioux Ghost Dance
1894•movie

Role: Director

Fire Rescue Scene
5.3
Fire Rescue Scene
1894•movie

Role: Director

Rip Leaving Sleepy Hollow
4.4

Role: Director

Rip Meeting the Dwarf
4.4

Role: Director

Rip's Toast
4.3
Rip's Toast
1896•movie

Role: Director

Bucking Broncho
4.5
Bucking Broncho
1894•movie

Role: Director

Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
4.2

Role: Director

Rip Passing Over the Mountain
4.3

Role: Director

Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
4.9

Role: Director

Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
4.4

Role: Director

Rip's Toast to Hudson
4.5

Role: Director

Fencing
3.6
Fencing
1892•movie

Role: Producer

Imperial Japanese Dance
4.6

Role: Director

Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
5.3

Role: Director

Athlete with Wand
4.0
Athlete with Wand
1894•movie

Role: Producer

Monkeyshines, No. 3
3.4

Role: Director

Band Drill
3.8
Band Drill
1894•movie

Role: Director

The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
4.7

Role: Director

King John
4.9
King John
1899•movie

Role: Director

Glenroy Bros., No. 2
5.0

Role: Director

Cock Fight, No. 2
3.8
Cock Fight, No. 2
1894•movie

Role: Producer

Chinese Laundry Scene
5.3

Role: Director

Hadj Cheriff
4.6
Hadj Cheriff
1894•movie

Role: Director

Rip Van Winkle
4.1
Rip Van Winkle
1896•movie

Role: Director

Serpentine Dance by Annabelle
5.5

Role: Director

Annabelle Sun Dance
4.7

Role: Director

Horse Shoeing
3.0
Horse Shoeing
1893•movie

as Self

Billy Edwards and the Unknown
3.9

Role: Director

Pope Leo XIII Being Seated Bestowing Blessing
5.3

Role: Director

Crissie Sheridan
4.8
Crissie Sheridan
1897•movie

Role: Director

Wrestling
3.4
Wrestling
1892•movie

Role: Director

Man on Parallel Bars
3.1

Role: Director

Chinese Opium Den
2.8
Chinese Opium Den
1894•movie

Role: Director

Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
2.3

Role: Director

New Blacksmith Shop
3.8

Role: Director

Duncan Smoking
4.1
Duncan Smoking
1891•movie

Role: Director

Buffalo Bill
3.7
Buffalo Bill
1894•movie

Role: Director

Wrestling Match
3.2
Wrestling Match
1894•movie

Role: Director

Rat Killing
2.7
Rat Killing
1894•movie

Role: Director

Trained Bears
2.8
Trained Bears
1894•movie

Role: Director

Mexican Knife Duel
1.4
Mexican Knife Duel
1894•movie

Role: Director

Lasso Thrower
1.6
Lasso Thrower
1894•movie

Role: Director

Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
5.6

Role: Director

Battle of Spion Kop: Ambulance Corps Crossing the Tugela River
5.6

Role: Director of Photography

Ladysmith – Naval Brigade Dragging 4.7 Guns into Ladysmith
7.7

Role: Director of Photography

Les Parisiennes
4.8
Les Parisiennes
1897•movie

Role: Director

An Obstinate Cork
4.8
An Obstinate Cork
1902•movie

Role: Director

General Buller Embarking on the 'Dunottar Castle' at Southampton
4.5

as Self

Venice, Feeding the Pigeons in St. Mark's Square
5.0

as Man on left of picture

Neapolitan Dance at the Ancient Forum of Pompeii
5.0

as Self

Pope Leo XIII in His Carriage
5.2

Role: Director

Bath Scene
5.2
Bath Scene
1897•movie

Role: Director

Little Egypt
3.5
Little Egypt
1896•movie

Role: Producer

A Bar Room Scene
4.2
A Bar Room Scene
1894•movie

Role: Director

Boxing Match
4.8
Boxing Match
1894•movie

Role: Director

Indian War Council
1.6
Indian War Council
1894•movie

Role: Director

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Coming Ashore
7.0

Role: Director of Photography

Place de la Concorde
6.9

Role: Director

Panorama of Grand Harbour, Malta, Showing Battleships, Etc.
6.5

Role: Director

Mr. Hurry-up
5.8
Mr. Hurry-up
1907•movie

Role: Director

Rats and Weasel
1.3
Rats and Weasel
1894•movie

Role: Director

The Grand Canal, Venice
3.7

Role: Director

Dancing Darkies
4.8
Dancing Darkies
1896•movie

Role: Director

A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
2.0

Role: Director

The Boulevard of Scheveningen
4.3

Role: Director

Fred Ott Holding a Bird
6.3

Role: Director

Brook Trout Fishing
5.3

Role: Director

Me and My Two Friends
6.7

Role: Director of Photography

Launch of the 'Oceanic'
8.3

Role: Director of Photography

Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram
4.3

Role: Director of Photography

Has He Hit Me?
4.0
Has He Hit Me?
1897•movie

Role: Director

James Grundy, Buck and Wing
3.0

Role: Director

Four Warships in Rough Seas
8.3

Role: Director

Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
5.7

Role: Director

Warships at Sunset
6.3
Warships at Sunset
1900•movie

Role: Director

Home Life of a Hungarian Family
5.7

Role: Director

From Monte Carlo to Monaco
7.0

Role: Director

Upside Down Boxers
6.3
Upside Down Boxers
1899•movie

Role: Director

Hiram Maxim and His Quick-firing Gun
6.7

Role: Director

Firing the Maxim Gun
5.0

Role: Director

Scheveningen, Dutch Fishing Boats
6.3

Role: Director

Ten Pickaninnies
4.3
Ten Pickaninnies
1908•movie

Role: Director

Amann, the Great Impersonator
6.5

Role: Director

Corpus Christi Procession, Orvieto
5.5

Role: Director

Duel to the Death
7.0
Duel to the Death
1898•movie

Role: Director

View on Boulevard, New York City
6.0

Role: Director

Panoramic View of Conway on the L. & N.W. Railway
7.5

Role: Director

Bloemfontein: Unfurling the Flag
6.0

Role: Director of Photography

A Watermelon Feast
3.5
A Watermelon Feast
1896•movie

Role: Director

Japanese Dancers
6.0
Japanese Dancers
1894•movie

Role: Producer

Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club
6.5

Role: Director

Afternoon Tea in the Gardens of Clarence House
2.5

Role: Director of Photography

He and She
4.5
He and She
1898•movie

Role: Director

Pelicans at the Zoo
5.0

Role: Director of Photography

Tapping a Blast Furnace
6.5

Role: Director of Photography

Gordon Highlanders in Ladysmith
7.5

Role: Director of Photography

Venice, harbour scene with gondolas
6.5

Role: Director

Fun on a Sand Hill
8.5
Fun on a Sand Hill
1899•movie

Role: Director

Funeral Procession of the Misericordia
4.5

Role: Director

Tram Journey through Southampton
6.5

Role: Director

Changing Guard (Berlin)
8.0

Role: Director

In a German Bath
8.0
In a German Bath
1899•movie

Role: Director

Man Overboard!
8.0
Man Overboard!
1899•movie

Role: Director

London Fire Brigade, Alarm
7.5

Role: Director

From War to Peace: First Departure of S.S. 'St. Louis' from Southampton
5.0

Role: Director

Battleship Odin Firing All Her Guns
4.5

Role: Director

In the Friedrichstrasse
8.0

Role: Director

Dutch Fishing Boats
6.5

Role: Director

Away Aloft
7.0
Away Aloft
1899•movie

Role: Director

Maidenhead Junction
6.0

Role: Director

A Camp of Zingaree Gypsies
7.0

Role: Director

A Blast at the Solvay Quarries
6.0

Role: Director

Panoramic View of Windsor Castle
6.0

Role: Director

The Tarantella, an Italian Dance
7.0

Role: Director

Rudge-Whitworth – Britain’s Best Bicycle
6.5

Role: Director

The Landing of Savage South Africa at Southampton
5.5

Role: Director

Hard Wash
1.0
Hard Wash
1896•movie

Role: Director

Annabelle in Flag Dance
1.0

Role: Director

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
5.0

Role: Director

Capuchin Monks in Vatican City
6.0

Role: Director

Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
9.0

Role: Director

Fatima
9.0
Fatima
1897•movie

Role: Director

Sound Money Parade
8.0
Sound Money Parade
1896•movie

Role: Director

Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race
7.0

Role: Director of Photography

The Lane on Sunday Morning
7.0

Role: Director of Photography

Launch of the Worthing Lifeboat Emerging from the Boathouse
9.0

Role: Director of Photography

Rifle Hill Signal Station near Frere Camp
7.0

Role: Director of Photography

Panoramic View of the Vegetable Market at Venice
7.0

Role: Director of Photography

Coronation of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (No. 1)
2.0

Role: Director

Flower Parade in Haarlem
6.0

Role: Director

Mills from the Zaanstreek
7.0

Role: Director

Dutch Fishing Fleet
6.0

Role: Director

Catching the Ferry in Amsterdam
4.0

Role: Director

French Military School Exercise
6.0

Role: Director

The Bridge of Sighs, Venice
4.0

Role: Director

Charge of the Carabineers, Aldershot
1.0

Role: Director

Charge of the French Cuirassiers – Paris

Role: Director

American Falls from Luna Island

Role: Director

American Falls from Goat Island

Role: Director

Military Exercise - Aldershot

Role: Director

The Queen and the Queen Mother on the Palace Balcony Responding to the Call of the Populace (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

Role: Director

The Vatican Military Guard, Consisting of a Detachment of Noble Guards, Commanded by Count Pecci, Followed by a Palatine Guard of Honour, Swiss Guard, Gendarmes and Fire Brigade

Role: Director

Review of the Royal Netherland Guards in the Costumes of the Middle Ages (Coronation of Wilhelmina Guard of Honor)

Role: Director

Arrival of the Queen at the Palace, Amsterdam, Sept 6th (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

Role: Director

The Royal Procession to the Church before the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

Role: Director

The Royal Procession from the Church after the Ceremony (Coronation of Wilhelmina)

Role: Director

Australian Cricket Tourists of 1899

Role: Director of Photography

Naval Guns Firing at Colenso

Role: Director of Photography

English Nell
English Nell
1900•movie

Role: Director