🎬 Director
William Heise
🎂 Born 1 October 1847 (age 62)✝ 14 February 1910📍 Germany
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Popularity Score
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Acting Credits
56
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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.
Known For
Directed Films(56)
★ 5.2
The Kiss
1896
Director
★ 3.0
Horse Shoeing
1893
Director
★ 4.7
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
1894
Director
★ 5.6
Blacksmithing Scene
1893
Director
★ 5.0
Dickson Greeting
1891
Director
★ 4.3
Men Boxing
1891
Director
★ 4.5
Newark Athlete
1891
Director
★ 5.9
The Boxing Cats
1894
Director
★ 5.0
Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
1894
Director
★ 5.2
Chinese Laundry Scene
1894
Director
★ 3.6
Fencing
1892
Director
★ 4.8
Buffalo Dance
1894
Director
★ 5.3
Fire Rescue Scene
1894
Director
★ 4.4
Bucking Broncho
1894
Director
★ 6.3
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1895
Director
★ 5.9
Annie Oakley
1894
Director
★ 5.1
The Barber Shop
1894
Director
★ 5.0
Glenroy Bros., No. 2
1894
Director
★ 5.0
Monkeyshines, No. 1
1890
Director
★ 4.6
Monkeyshines, No. 2
1890
Director
★ 6.1
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894
Director
★ 3.6
A Hand Shake
1892
Director
★ 4.8
Sioux Ghost Dance
1894
Director
★ 4.5
Imperial Japanese Dance
1894
Director
★ 5.0
Fatima's Coochee-Coochee Dance
1896
Director
★ 5.2
Carmencita
1894
Director
★ 3.6
Monkeyshines, No. 3
1890
Director
★ 3.8
Band Drill
1894
Director
★ 3.9
Charity Ball
1897
Director
★ 4.3
Shooting the Chutes
1896
Director
★ 5.9
Danse serpentine (Annabelle)
1895
Director
★ 5.0
Fifth Avenue, New York
1897
Director
★ 3.8
Cock Fight, No. 2
1894
Director
★ 5.5
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
1894
Director
★ 5.3
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
1894
Director
★ 4.8
Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze
1894
Director
★ 3.1
The Ball Game
1898
Director
★ 5.2
Sandow: The Strong Man
1894
Director
★ 4.8
Black Diamond Express, No. 1
1897
Director
★ 4.5
Ambulance at the Accident
1897
Director
★ 3.9
Princess Ali
1895
Director
★ 6.7
Admiral Cigarette
1897
Director
★ 3.8
New Blacksmith Shop
1895
Director
★ 3.8
Duncan Smoking
1891
Director
★ 4.3
Ten Pickaninnies
1908
Director
★ 6.0
Caicedo (with Pole)
1894
Director
★ 4.0
Billy Edwards and the Unknown
1895
Director
★ 10.0
Ambulance Call
1897
Director
★ 4.3
A Bucking Broncho
1898
Director
★ 4.0
Athlete with Wand
1894
Director
★ 4.8
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
1894
Director
★ 4.2
Fisherman's Luck
1897
Director
★ 4.5
Hockey Match on the Ice
1898
Director
★ 4.5
Mount and Dismount, Gatling Gun
1897
Director
★ 4.0
Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, No. 2
1898
Director
★ 4.0
Parade of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, No. 1
1898
Director
Full Filmography(1 films)
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