Raymond Longford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Raymond Longford

film director

Date of Birth: 23-Sep-1878

Place of Birth: Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 02-Apr-1959

Profession: screenwriter, film director, film producer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Raymond Longford (23 September 1878 – 2 April 1959) was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer and actor during the silent era.
Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema.
He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell.
His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including The Sentimental Bloke (1919) and The Blue Mountains Mystery (1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inducted in 1968, named in his honour.