The Silent Era

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.

1. The Birth of a Nation (1915) - $10,000,000
2. The Big Parade (1925) - $6,400,000
3. Ben-Hur (1925) - $5,500,000
4. Way Down East (1920) - $5,000,000
5. The Gold Rush (1925) - $4,250,000
6. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) - $4,000,000
7. The Circus (1928) - $3,800,000
8. The Covered Wagon (1923) - $3,800,000
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) - $3,500,000
10. The Ten Commandments (1923) - $3,400,000
11. Orphans of the Storm (1921) - $3,000,000
12. For Heaven's Sake (1926) - $2,600,000
13. Seventh Heaven (1926) - $2,400,000
14. 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

Writers