David Hartford
Illustration — From a 1921 magazine David Hartford (1873–1932) was an American actor and film director best known for directing the movie Back to God's Country (1919).
David Hartford

Apeda studio, N.Y. · Exhibitors Herald (Apr. - Jun. 1920) on the Internet Archive · Public domain
- Born
- 1873 · Hollywood.
- Died
- 1932 · Hollywood.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- actor · film director · screenwriter · film producer
- Languages
- English
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• The Dead End (1914) • Tess of the Storm Country (1914) • The Bride of Hate (1917) • Blood Will Tell (1917) • Madam Who? (1918) • The Turn of a Card (1918) • Inside the Lines (1918) • Rose o' Paradise (1918) • It Happened in Paris (1919, co-directed with Richard Gordon Matzene) • Back to God's Country (1919) • Nomads of the North (1920) • The Golden Snare (1921) • The Rapids (1922) • Blue Water (1924) • Then Came the Woman (1926) • The Man in the Shadow (1926) • God's Great Wilderness (1927) • Rose of the Bowery (1927) • Rough Romance (1930) • Over the Hill (1931)

Silent film actor David Hartford.
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