GROUPS
Listed here are entrants in Who's Who of Victorian Cinema described by profession or type, for ease of reference.
Actors and performers
(see also Magicians)
Audience members
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Abdul Hamid II, Maxim Gorky, Li Hung Chang, Mozaffar al-Din Shah, Sydney Race, Victoria |
'The Brighton School'
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John Benett-Stanford, Esmé Collings, Alfred Darling, William Norman Lascelles Davidson, William Friese Greene, George Albert Smith, Charles Urban, James Williamson |
Businessmen
Cameramen (see also Lumière employees and War reporters)
Doctors and medical researchers
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Walter Beevor, Eugène-Louis Doyen, William Gilbert Grace, Albert Londe, Auguste Lumière, John Macintyre, Etienne-Jules Marey, Gheorghe Marinescu, Pawel Piasecki, J.H. Smith, Robert Watkins |
Edison employees, associates, concessionaries and pirates
Edison Kinetoscope/Vitascope performers
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Annabelle, Ena Bertoldi, 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, Jim Corbett, May Irwin, Fred Ott, Joe Rastus, Ruth St Denis, Eugen Sandow, Denny Tolliver, Walter Wilkins |
Engineers
Exhibitors (see also Fairground exhibitors)
Fairground exhibitors
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George Green, Sophie Hancock, James Kenyon, Sagar Mitchell, Madame Olinka, Christiaan Slieker, Randall Williams |
Inventors
Lumière family, employees and concessionaries
Magicians
Manufacturers
Monarchs and politicians
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Abd al-Aziz, Abdul Hamid II, Mozaffar al-Din Shah, Albert I, Ernest Hatch, Li Hung Chang, William McKinley, Nikolas II, Victoria, Wilhelm II |
Producers and filmmakers
Propagandists and evangelists
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Herbert Booth, T.P. Crowther, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, James Freer, Leo XIII, Joseph Perry, Alfred West, Frederick Wills |
Scientists, astronomers and chronophotographers
Sportsmen and sports filmmakers
War reporters
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Fred Ackerman, John Benett-Stanford, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Edgar Hyman, Arthur Marvin, William Paley, Joseph Rosenthal, Frederic Villiers |
Women
Writers, artists and adventurers
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Winston Churchill, Will Day, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson, Maxim Gorky, Cecil Hepworth, Mary Hitchcock, Henry V. Hopwood, Boleslaw Matuszewski, Percy Pilcher, Louis Tinayre, Frederick Villiers |