H. Tipton Steck
H. Tipton Steck | |
|---|---|
| Born | Harry Tipton Steck October 24, 1888 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 3, 1953 (aged 64) Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Burial place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Occupations | Screenwriter, scenario writer for film, advertising executive |
| Spouse | Florence Eddye Bartlett (m. 1925–) |
Harry "H." Tipton Steck (October 24, 1888 – June 3, 1953)[1][2] was an American screenwriter, and scenario writer for silent film.[3] He later worked as an advertising executive.[4]
Life and career
Steck started his career in 1915 as the manager of negative production,[5] and 1918 in the scenario department with the Essanay Studios, a film production company in Chicago.[6][7] He later worked for Thomas H. Ince at Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studio. Steck was one of the screenwriters for the John Ford Stock Company.
He was married in 1925 to Florence Eddye Bartlett.[8][9]
Steck died on June 3, 1953, in Bel Air, Los Angeles in California.[4] He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Filmography
- The Accounting (1915), as writer, adapted from the novel The Accounting by Steck[10]
- Graustark (1915), as writer; adapted from Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon[5]
- The Old Sin (1915), as screenwriter[6]
- Miss Freckles (1915), as scenario writer[11][12]
- The Great Silence (1915), as writer[13][14]
- Millstones (1916), as scenario writer[15]
- The Phantom Buccaneer (1916), as writer; adapted from the novel Another Man's Shoes (1913) by Victor Bridges[16]
- The Small Town Guy (1917), as writer with Freeman Tilden[16]
- Gift O' Gab (1917), as writer[16]
- The Man Who Was Afraid (1917), as screenwriter, adapted from the novel by Mary Brecht Pulver[17][18]
- The Sea Flower (1918), as writer with George C. Hull
- Rider of the Law (1919), as screenwriter[19]
- The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919), as scenario writer[15][19][20]
- The Last Outlaw (1919), as screenwriter[19]
- Gun Law (1919), as screenwriter[19]
- By Indian Post (1919), as screenwriter[19]
- Marked Men (1919)[19]
- The Broken Butterfly (1919), as writer with Charles E. Whittaker[21]
- The Leopard Woman (1920), as screenwriter with Stanley C. Morse; adapted from the novel The Leopard Woman (1916) by Stewart Edward White[22]
- Love (1920), as inter-titles writer
- The Sting of the Lash (1921), as writer with Harvey Gates
- Live and Let Live (1921), as writer[23]
- Dangerous Pastime (1922), as writer with Wyndham Martin
- Woman's Law (1927), as writer
- Out of the Past (1927), as writer with John S. Lopez
- Outcast Souls (1928), as film editor, and titles[24]
Publications
- Steck, H. Tipton (September 23, 1920). "Well-Known Screen Experts Will Advise Ambitious Writers on Sale of Their Stories". Los Angeles Evening Express.
References
- ^ Hoffmann, Henryk (July 11, 2015). Western Film Highlights: The Best of the West, 1914–2001. McFarland. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-4766-0865-5.
- ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (1995). Silent Film Necrology: Births and Deaths of Over 9000 Performers, Directors, Producers, and Other Filmmakers of the Silent Era, Through 1993. McFarland. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-7864-0132-1.
- ^ "Scenario Lecture Series To Begin Next Tuesday". Los Angeles Evening Express. September 16, 1920. p. 19. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Obituary for Harry Tipton Steck". The Los Angeles Times (Obituary). June 5, 1953. p. 32. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Modern version of writing on wall". Ledger-Star. February 7, 1915. p. 22. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Moving Picture World and View Photographer. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1915. p. 58.
- ^ Kiehn, David (2003). Broncho Billy and the Essanay Film Company. Farwell Books. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-9729226-5-4.
- ^ "Florence Bartlett Steck". The Los Angeles Times (Obituary). March 25, 1973. p. 40. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Marriage of Bartlett and Steck". The Ventura Weekly Post and Democrat. May 1, 1925. p. 6. Retrieved January 1, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Maturi, Richard J.; Maturi, Mary Buckingham (2000). Beverly Bayne, Queen of the Movies: A Biography, with a Filmography and a Listing of Stage, Radio and Television Appearances. McFarland. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-7864-0796-5.
- ^ Rainey, Buck (May 1, 1990). Those Fabulous Serial Heroines: Their Lives and Films. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-8108-1911-5.
- ^ "Double Bill at Apollo". Kansas City Journal. November 2, 1915. p. 3. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Francis X. Bushman at the Parlor". The Evening Telegram. May 8, 1915. p. 11. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Amusements". The Waco Times-Herald. April 4, 1915. p. 17. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Katchmer, George A. (1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. pp. 143, 510. ISBN 978-0-89950-494-0.
- ^ a b c Connelly, Robert B. (1998). The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36. December Press. ISBN 978-0-913204-36-8.
- ^ "The Man Who Was Afraid". Evening Public Ledger. July 10, 1917. p. 14. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Charlie Chaplin In a New Play and "'Fraid" Main at the Orpheum". The Herald Statesman. October 22, 1917. p. 10. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f Eyman, Scott; Duncan, Paul (2004). John Ford: The Searcher, 1894-1973. Taschen. pp. 183–184. ISBN 978-3-8228-3093-2 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Article clipped from San Antonio Light". San Antonio Light. December 29, 1918. p. 15. Retrieved December 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Broken Butterfly (1919)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved December 31, 2025.
- ^ Wid's Year Book. Arno Press. 1921. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-405-02564-8.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. p. 444. ISBN 978-0-520-20969-5.
- ^ The Film Daily Year Book, 1929 (11 ed.). John W. Alicoate. 1929. p. 69 – via Google Books.