Follow Us
Be a Fan
-
View in:
English (default)
People who have made significant contribution to silent films: actors, directors, writers, etc.
Top grossing silent films in the United States as calculated by Variety magazine in 1932. The dollar amounts are not adjusted for inflation.
- The Birth of a Nation (1915) - $10,000,000
- The Big Parade (1925) - $6,400,000
- Ben-Hur (1925) - $5,500,000
- Way Down East (1920) - $5,000,000
- The Gold Rush (1925) - $4,250,000
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - $4,000,000
- The Circus (1928) - $3,800,000
- The Covered Wagon (1923) - $3,800,000
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - $3,500,000
- The Ten Commandments (1923) - $3,400,000
- Orphans of the Storm (1921) - $3,000,000
- For Heaven's Sake (1926) - $2,600,000
- Seventh Heaven (1926) - $2,400,000
- Abie's Irish Rose (1928) - $1,500,000
Actors
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
- Charlie Chaplin
- William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- Lew Cody
- Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
- William S. Hart
- Harry Cary Sr.
- Victoria Forde
- D.W. Griffith
- Buster Keaton
- Edith McAlpin
- Tom Mix
- Mabel Normand
- Mary Pickford
Directors
- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle
- William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
- Charley Chaplin
- Cecil B.DeMille
- D.W. Griffith
- William S. Hart
- Samuel Goldwyn
- Mabel Normand
- Hal Roach
- Mack Sennett