Biography
Born in Chicago, Lloyd F. Lonergan was one of five children of Thomas Lonergan, a newspaper publisher. His mother was a writer for various newspapers, and eventually all of his siblings became newspaper writers too. Lonergan attended the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. He later went to work for the William Randolph Hearst organization as a newspaper and magazine writer and worked on a number of newspapers, including the New York Evening Journal and the New York Evening World. He was eventually hired by the newly formed Thanhouser Company as a scriptwriter, and penned the company's first picture, The Actor's Children (1910). He later married Molly Homan, the sister of Thanhouser founder Edwin Thanhouser's wife. He left Thanhouser in 1915 after company executive (and his close friend) Charles J. Hite was killed in an auto accident and founder Edwin Thanhouser sold the company to an investor syndicate. Lonergan went to work for Universal Pictures as a scriptwriter. However, Thanhouser returned and bought the company back not long afterwards —the new owners had no idea how to run a film studio and were losing a fortune— and Lonergan also returned, staying for the next two years. In 1917, as the studio's fortunes declined and it was on its last legs, Lonergan left for good. He retired for a while, but came back in late 1917 to edit the serial The Million Dollar Mystery (1914) into a feature to be re-released by Arrow Film Corp. He later returned to scriptwriting also, although mostly for low-budget independents, and wrote such films as A Common Level (1920) for Transatlantic Films, Why Women Sin (1920) for Wisteria Productions and My Lady's Garter (1920) for Maurice Tourneur Productions. He died in New York City on April 6, 1937, after a long illness.
Filmography
all 58
Movies 58
Writer 55
Director 2
Nine Points of the Law (1922)
The Highest Bidder (1921)
My Lady's Garter (1920)
Under False Colors (1917)
The Man Without a Country (1917)
The Woman in White (1917)
Mary Lawson's Secret (1917)
A Modern Monte Cristo (1917)
The Traffic Cop (1916)
The Net (1916)
Toodles, Tom and Trouble (1915)
Clarence Cheats at Croquet (1915)
The Soap Suds Star (1915)
The Marvelous Marathoner (1915)
Madam Blanche, Beauty Doctor (1915)
Zudora (1914)
From Wash to Washington (1914)
The Mohammedan's Conspiracy (1914)
A Woman's Loyalty (1914)
The Cat's Paw (1914)
Joseph in the Land of Egypt (1914)
An Elusive Diamond (1914)
The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)
Peggy's Invitation (1913)
The Legend of Provence (1913)
The Farmer's Daughters (1913)
Robin Hood (1913)
Moths (1913)
While Baby Slept (1913)
Sherlock Holmes Solves the Sign of the Four (1913)
When the Studio Burned (1913)
His Uncle's Wives (1913)
Star of Bethlehem (1912)
The Other Half (1912)
A Romance of the U.S.N. (1912)
Lucile (1912)
The Woman in White (1912)
Undine (1912)
Now Watch the Professor (1912)
The Portrait of Lady Anne (1912)
The Russian Mute (1912)
Pa's Medicine (1912)
Under Two Flags (1912)
Whom God Hath Joined (1912)
The Ring of a Spanish Grandee (1912)
Jess (1912)
Jilted (1912)
Love's Miracle (1912)
The Saleslady (1912)
Rejuvenation (1912)
Into the Desert (1912)
The Girl of the Grove (1912)
For Sale -- A Life (1912)
Flying to Fortune (1912)
Young Lord Stanley (1910)
The Winter's Tale (1910)
Daddy's Double (1910)
The Actor's Children (1910)
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GenderMale
Birthday1870-03-03
Deathday1937-04-06 (67 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsLloyd F. Lonergan
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