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Filmmaker · South Africa

Harold M. Shaw

Died in 1926

Harold M. Shaw, an American, acted for nearly sixteen years in the theatre and in vaudeville before entering films at Edison, where he became a director, then at Independent Moving Pictures of New York. Moving to England in 1913, he directed films there for the London Film Company. In 1916, he went to South Africa for African Film Productions, made several films there in a short time, then worked for a competitor. Back in London, then in the United States, he made films for Metro and died in 1926.

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