King Baggot

King Baggot
Baggot in 1915
Born	William King Baggot (1879-11-07)November 7, 1879 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	July 11, 1948(1948-07-11) (aged 68) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupations	Actor Film director
Years active	1900–1947
Spouse	Ruth Constantine ​ ​ (m. 1912; div. 1930)​

William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose Face Is As Familiar As The Man In The Moon."

Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, Tumbleweeds (1925).

Among his film appearances, he was best known for The Scarlet Letter (1911), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913), and Ivanhoe (1913), which was filmed on location in Wales.^[1]