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Joseph Henabery (January 15, 1888 – February 18, 1976) Omaha, Nebraska, was a US film actor, screenplay writer, and director.
Henabery's acting career began in The Joke on Yellentown (1914). Henabery appeared in the D. W. Griffith silent film Birth of a Nation (1915) as Abraham Lincoln. From 1914 to 1917 he appeared in seventeen films.
Henabery also worked as a second-unit director on Griffith's Intolerance (1916), and supervised the filming of at least one extended sequence that appeared in the film. Throughout the rest of his career, he worked as a director. From the mid-1920s, and after professional disagreements with both Louis B. Mayer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Adolph Zukor at Paramount Pictures, Henabery found employment as a director for smaller Hollywood studios. His career as a director of feature films ended by the late 1930s.
Although Henabery's impersonation of Lincoln was a masterpiece of facial makeup, Henabery was significantly shorter than Lincoln. Kevin Brownlow's book The Parade's Gone By (1968) contains a photo of Henabery in costume and makeup as Lincoln, seated in a chair with planks placed on the floor under Henabery's feet so that his knees are raised several inches; this effect (with the planks kept off-camera in the movie) made Henabery's legs appear several inches longer than they actually were.
Cobra (1925) - Joseph Henabery
1935: Joseph Henabery - Thru Traffic (Paul Kelly, Marguerite Churchill)
Cobra (1925, Rudolph Valentino) film complet
El nacimiento de una nación (1915) de D.W. Griffith - (1/2) Película completa
D・W・グリフィス - 国民の創生/ D.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation(1915)
1915 The Birth Of A Nation [Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall]
1915: D. W. Griffith - The Birth Of A Nation (Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall)
1925: Cobra (Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Natacha Rambova)
1916 Intolerance [Mae Marsh, Bessie Love, Lillian Gish]
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