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H.E. Aitken
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Born
October 4
,
1877
·
Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Died
August 1
,
1956
·
Chicago, Illinois, USA
(heart attack)
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H.E. Aitken was born on October 4, 1877 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for
The Life of General Villa (1914)
,
Home, Sweet Home (1914)
and
The Electric Alarm (1915)
. He died on August 1, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Trivia
In 1915, with brother
Roy Aitken
and partners
Adam Kessel
and
Charles Baumann
, started the Triangle Film Corp., which produced films by such directors as
D.W. Griffith
and
Mack Sennett
and such stars as
Lillian Gish
and
Douglas Fairbanks
.
One of the founders of the American Film Mfg. Co., which later became the American Film Co., a major production company in the late 1910s and early 1920s, which began in Chicago but eventually set up shop in Santa Barbara, California.
Is portrayed by
Jim Broadbent
in
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Used to be a real estate agent.
Along with
John R. Freuler
, he founded the distribution outlet the Western Film Exchange on July 23, 1906.
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