Lynn Reynolds
Lynn Reynolds | |
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Born | Lynn Fairfield Reynolds May 7, 1889 |
Died | February 25, 1927 Los Angeles, California, United States | (aged 37)
Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
Years active | 1914–1927 |
Spouse | Kathleen O'Connor |
Lynn Fairfield Reynolds (May 7, 1889 – February 25, 1927) was an American director and screenwriter. Reynolds directed more than 80 films between 1915 and 1928. He also wrote for 58 films between 1914 and 1927. Reynolds was born in
Los Angeles, California,[1]
from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Death
Returning home in 1927 after being snowbound in the Sierras for three weeks, Reynolds telephoned his wife, actress Kathleen O'Connor, to arrange a dinner party at their Hollywood home with another couple. During the dinner, Reynolds and O'Connor engaged in a heated quarrel in which each accused the other of infidelity. With his guests following in an attempt to calm him down, Reynolds left the table to retrieve a pistol from another room where he shot himself in the head.[2][3]
Selected filmography
- It Happened in Honolulu (1916)
- The Secret of the Swamp (1916)
- Up or Down? (1917)
- Broadway Arizona (1917)
- The Greater Law (1917)
- The Gown of Destiny (1917)
- Southern Justice (1917)
- God's Crucible (1917)
- The Show Down (1917)
- Mr. Opp (1917)
- Mutiny (1917)
- Fast Company (1918)
- Western Blood (1918)
- Ace High (1918)
- Mr. Logan, U.S.A. (1918)
- Treat 'Em Rough (1919)
- Overland Red (1920)
- Bullet Proof (1920)
- The Texan (1920)
- Trailin' (1921)
- Sky High (1922)
- For Big Stakes (1922)
- Up and Going (1922)
- Tom Mix in Arabia (1922)
- Brass Commandments (1923)
- The Huntress (1923)
- The Gunfighter (1923)
- The Last of the Duanes (1924)
- The Deadwood Coach (1924)
- Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
- The Rainbow Trail (1925)
- Durand of the Bad Lands (1925)
- Chip of the Flying U (1926)
- The Combat (1926)
- The Man in the Saddle (1926)
- The Texas Streak (1926)
- The Buckaroo Kid (1926)
- Prisoners of the Storm (1926)
- The Silent Rider (1927)
- Hey! Hey! Cowboy (1927)
References
- ^ "Lynn Reynolds Dead". The Film Daily. XXXIX (48): 1. February 27, 1927. Retrieved September 29, 2015 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Quarrel Ends in Suicide of Film Director". Sarasota Herald. AP. February 26, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-8108-3941-0.
External links
- Lynn Reynolds at IMDb
- Lynn Reynolds at Find a Grave