17 Facts About Travers Vale

Early in his career, he was known by the name S F Travers Vale under which name he authored his first known play, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab which is an adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by Fergus Hume.

Travers Vale established his own theatre troupe, The Travers Vale Dramatic Company, which was in residence at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide in 1889 and the Auckland Opera House in New Zealand in 1890.

The couple's first child, Violet Rachel Flohm Travers Vale, was born in Cardiff, Wales in May 1894.

Travers Vale continued to make films with companies on the East Coast of the United States over the next several years, including works for the Pilot Films Corporation, the Biograph Company, and Peerless Pictures Studios.

Travers Vale then moved to Hollywood, California, where his first film made on the West Coast was The Street of Tears.

Several of his films made prior to his move to California featured his second wife, the actress Louise Travers Vale, who died during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918.

Travers Vale was born in Liverpool, England on 31 January 1865.

Travers Vale's father-in-law, Aaron Flegeltaub, was a respected photographer who had worked for the American Photography Company before establishing a photography school in Ballarat in 1882.

Travers Vale ventured with his wife [who had changed her name to Leah 'Lily' Travers Vale] to India for a brief period before moving on to England.

Travers Vale toured the United States in performances of After the War in 1901.

Travers later married the actress Louise Vale who performed in some of his films.

Travers Vale predeceased him; dying of the Spanish flu on October 28,1918 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Travers Vale began his career as a film director with the New Jersey based Champion Film Company; directing that company's very first film Abernathy Kids to the Rescue.

In 1916 Travers Vale made a few films with Peerless Pictures Studios in New Jersey, and then joined the roster of another New Jersey film company that same year, the World Film Company.

Travers Vale remained active making numerous films for World through 1920.

Travers Vale served as director for his final film, Western Pluck, which was made by Universal Pictures.

Travers Vale died in Hollywood, California on 10 January 1927.