The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western action film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a
Cover of a promotional leaflet for the film
1. Interior of Railroad Telegraph Office
2. At the Railroad Water Tank
3. Interior of Express Car
Broncho Billy Anderson
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Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who was the first star of the Western film genre. He was a founder and star for Essanay studios. In
The Great Train Robbery (1903 film)
…November 1903; the Edison studio began selling it to vaudeville houses and other venues in the following month. The cast included Justus D. Barnes and G. M. Anderson, who may have also helped with planning and staging. Porter's storytelling approach, though not particularly innovative or unusual for 1903, allowed…
Anderson c. 1913
Francis X. Bushman, Charlie Chaplin and Anderson, photo taken at the Essanay Studio, Chicago in 1915
Naked Hands, 1918
The Son of a Gun, 1919