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William Heise

William Heise

Biography

William Heise was an American film cinematographer and director, active in the 1890s. Along with William K.L. Dickson, Heise was one of the most prolific filmmakers of the nascent days of cinema. Together, both men worked on many of the early shorts produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company and were credited for more than 175 short silent films, capturing numerous scenes of everyday life as well as different aspects of performance and sport.

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

135

Gender

Male

Birthday

1847-10-01

Place of Birth

Germany

Also Known As

Known For

A Hand Shake Monkeyshines, No. 1 Fencing Horse Shoeing Blacksmithing Scene Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze Carmencita The Kiss Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) The Barber Shop Bowery Waltz Sioux Ghost Dance Annie Oakley Danse serpentine (Annabelle) Pillow Fight Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph The Boxing Cats Imperial Japanese Dance Chinese Laundry Scene Bucking Broncho Band Drill Hadj Cheriff Princess Ali Charity Ball Fire Rescue Scene Amy Muller Fisherman's Luck Dickson Experimental Sound Film A Street Arab What Demoralized the Barber Shop Hockey Match on the Ice Black Diamond Express, No. 1 Fifth Avenue, New York Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance Dancing Darkey Boy The Ball Game Pie Eating Contest An Unwelcome Visitor Ambulance Call Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, No. 2 Leonard-Cushing Fight Buffalo Dance The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show” New Blacksmith Shop Paddle Dance Silver Dance Dance of Rejoicing The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight Shooting the Chutes Cock Fight, No. 2 Monkeyshines, No. 2 Monkeyshines, No. 3 Dickson Greeting Men Boxing Crissie Sheridan Monkey and Another, Boxing Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud Duncan Smoking Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop Glenroy Bros., No. 2 Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, No. 1 Ambulance at the Accident Mount and Dismount, Gatling Gun Sea Waves Old Glory and the Cuban Flag Boxing Match Admiral Cigarette Death Scene Hypnotic Scene Trilby Dance Single Harness Horses Billy Edwards and the Unknown Butterfly Dances Snowballing the Coasters Newark Athlete Athlete with Wand Sandow: The Strong Man Caicedo (with Pole) Annabelle Butterfly Dance Luis Martinetti, Contortionist A Bucking Broncho Ten Pickaninnies Newark athlete. [No. 2] The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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