Edward LeSaint

Edward LeSaint was an American actor and director who started on the stage and then worked in films from the silent era onward. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he spent a couple of years with a stock theater company there and then traveled for fifteen years in prominent road shows across the country. He appeared on Broadway, sometimes billed as Edward J. Le Saint, in Robert Emmet (1904) and later in The Big Fight (1928) and Houseparty (1929). He also worked for Kinemacolor and Selig Polyscope before moving to Universal Pictures. LeSaint directed roughly fifty films between 1912 and 1916 and acted in more than 300 films, directing more than 90 overall. He often appeared as authority figures, taking more than thirty roles as a judge, sometimes credited and sometimes not, including a bit part in Too Many Women (1934). He died in 1940.