Edwin S. Porter
Director · 140 credits · 32 in highly-rated films
Best known for The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Frequent collaborators: Hugh Ford, J. Searle Dawley, Wallace McCutcheon Sr., James H. White, Lois Weber
Directed movies (138 total, ranked by score)
91European Rest Cure
1904 · ★ 5.2 (6 votes)
Comedy
- 92
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
1904 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)
Documentary
93The White Caps
1905 · ★ 5.0 (6 votes)
Drama
94The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
1907 · ★ 4.7 (3 votes)
Drama
- 95
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
1904 · ★ 3.0 (2 votes)
Documentary
96Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
1908 · ★ 5.0 (4 votes)
Drama
97Laughing Gas
1907 · ★ 5.0 (6 votes)
Comedy
- 98
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
1901 · ★ 4.4 (5 votes)
Comedy
99A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition
1901 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)
Documentary
100Cohen’s Fire Sale
1907 · ★ 3.8 (5 votes)
Comedy, Crime
- 101
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
1904 · ★ 4.0 (2 votes)
Documentary
102The Old Maid in the Horsecar
1901 · ★ 3.0 (2 votes)
Comedy
- 103
Sampson-Schley Controversy
1901 · ★ 3.5 (2 votes)
History
104Scarecrow Pump
1904 · ★ 4.6 (5 votes)
Comedy
105The Little Train Robbery
1905 · ★ 5.3 (12 votes)
Action, Crime
106The Watermelon Patch
1905 · ★ 4.7 (6 votes)
Drama
107The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
1904 · ★ 4.6 (5 votes)
Comedy
- 108
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates
1903 · ★ 3.7 (3 votes)
Documentary
109Life of a Cowboy
1906 · ★ 3.9 (4 votes)
Western
110The Unappreciated Joke
1903 · ★ 4.5 (6 votes)
Comedy
111Appointment by Telephone
1902 · ★ 4.5 (6 votes)
Comedy
112The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
1905 · ★ 5.1 (16 votes)
Family, Comedy
113Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
1901 · ★ 5.3 (27 votes)
Documentary
114A Winter Straw Ride
1906 · ★ 4.8 (11 votes)
Comedy
115The Kleptomaniac
1905 · ★ 5.0 (14 votes)
Crime
- 116
Kansas Saloon Smashers
1901 · ★ 3.9 (7 votes)
Comedy
117The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
1901 · ★ 4.0 (7 votes)
Comedy
118A Dull Razor
1900 · ★ 3.2 (12 votes)
Comedy
119Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel
1900 · ★ 4.6 (19 votes)
Horror, Comedy
120"Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride
1904 · ★ 3.7 (7 votes)
Comedy
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.