James Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867 – December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage actor and stage director. Biography James Gordon Edwards was born in Montreal in 1867 to parents of Scotch-French ancestry. He made his directorial debut with the 1914 film St. Elmo. Edwards went on directing all of the Fox Film Corporation's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 and 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox, and continued to direct until he died in 1925. One of his biggest projects was The Queen of Sheba (1921), a lost silent film which contained a huge chariot race, four years before Ben-Hur (1925). Essentially all of his films (other than a few low quality prints) for Fox Studios were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire, which claimed 75% of all Fox films made before 1930. He was the stepgrandfather of director Blake Edwards. He was married to actress Angela McCaull, daughter of opera impresario John A. McCaull. Edwards died of pneumonia at age 58 in New York City. His widow later commissioned a mausoleum in his honor at Kensico Cemetery, where both of their ashes reside. Filmography Production supervisor A Daughter of the Gods (1916) - lost Director St. Elmo (1914) Life's Shop Window (1914) - lost A Woman's Resurrection (1915) Anna Karenina (1915) - lost Should a Mother Tell (1915) The Song of Hate (1915) Blindness of Devotion (1915) The Unfaithful Wife (1915) The Galley Slave (1915) - lost Under Two Flags (1916) - lost Her Double Life (1916) - lost A Wife's Sacrifice (1916) The Vixen (1916) - lost The Green-Eyed Monster (1916) - lost Romeo and Juliet (1916) - lost The Spider and the Fly (1916) The Tiger Woman (1917) - lost Tangled Lives (1917) - lost Her Greatest Love (1917) - lost The Rose of Blood (1917) - lost Madame Du Barry (1917) - lostHeart and Soul (1917) - lostThe Darling of Paris (1917) - lostCleopatra (1917) - lostCamille (1917) - lostWhen a Woman Sins (1918) - lostUnder the Yoke (1918) - lostThe Soul of Buddha (1918) - lostThe She Devil (1918) - lostSalome (1918) - lostThe Forbidden Path (1918) - lostA Woman There Was (1919) - lostWolves of the Night (1919) - lostWings of the Morning (1919) - lostWhen Men Desire (1919) - lostThe Siren's Song