Bernard Joseph Durning was an American silent film director and actor who worked primarily with Lon Chaney, Dustin Farnum, and Buck Jones.
13 Facts About Bernard Durning
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Bernard J Durning was born on August 24,1892, in New York City, US.
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Bernard Durning died on August 29,1923, in New York City.
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Bernard Durning began at Edison Studios in the Bronx, in 1912, after attending Fordham University.
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Bernard Durning rose through the ranks of the studio as assistant to Charles Brabin and John H Collins.
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Bernard Durning was Production Manager at Edison for three years.
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Bernard Durning stood six foot six and is recognizable in a film still of a Stock Market scene of a 1912 Edison film which appears on page 33 in HOLLYWOOD The Pioneers by Kevin Brownlow as the face directly below the podium.
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Bernard Durning first met Shirley Mason when he rescued her from a train wreck scene at Edison.
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Bernard Durning was a top director of action-packed melodramas starring Dustin Farnum and Buck Jones when William Wellman became his assistant director in 1921.
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Bernard Durning taught Wellman a valuable lesson about true love in Hollywood.
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Bernard Durning married silent film actress Shirley Mason on June 19,1917.
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Bernard Durning was directing a big special for Fox, called Around The Town, starring Gallagher and Shean in the summer of 1923 when he drank some bad water in Brooklyn and got typhoid fever.
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Bernard Durning died in St Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, with Shirley Mason by his side.