Thomas A. Edison
Birthday
1847/02/11
Day of death
1931/10/18 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Milan, Ohio, USA
Also know as
Thomas Alva Edison, Thomas Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park
Biography
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first ...Read more
Acting
(2005) Edison: The Invention of the Movies
as Himself (archive footage)
(1942) The Film That Was Lost
as Self (archive footage)
(1897) Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory
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(1922) A Day with Thomas A. Edison
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(1909) Meeting of the Motion Pictures Patents Company
as Himself
(1950) The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
(2019) Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
(2019) The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
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(2008) Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2015) Edison
as Himself (archive footage)
(1998) Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
as Self (archive footage)
(1982) Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1946) Okay for Sound
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(2011) The Extraordinary Voyage
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
(1995) The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America
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(1990) The Crash of 1929
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(2002) Naqoyqatsi
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(2020) History 101
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(1964) Horizon
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(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
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