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John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. McGowan remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).
J.P. McGowan was born on 24 February 1880 in Terowie, South Australia, Australia. He was a director and actor, known for The Lost Express (1917), Hills of Missing Men (1922) and Do or Die (1921). He was married to Mrs. Kaye Swart Northrop, Leona (Lorna) Haviland and Helen Holmes.
Terowie-born J.P. McGowan became a pioneering Hollywood actor, director and occasional screenwriter and producer from 1910. He is the only Australian life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).
J.P. McGowan was born on February 24, 1880 in Terowie, South Australia, Australia. He was a director and actor, known for The Lost Express (1917), Hills of Missing Men (1922) and Do or Die (1921).
John Paterson McGowan (February 24, 1880 – March 26, 1952) was a pioneering Hollywood actor and director and occasionally a screenwriter and producer. J. P. McGowan, as he was usually known, remains the only Australian to have been made a life member of the Screen Directors Guild (now Directors Guild of America).
Nov 24, 2006 · Early filmmaker J.P. McGowan – the “Railroad Man” – became famous for making thrilling, silent-era serials involving trains, usually starring his wife Helen Holmes as the plucky heroine inevitably called Helen.
Dec 9, 2017 · J.P. McGowan was born on February 24, 1880 in Terowie, South Australia as John Paterson McGowan. He was a director and actor, known for The Hurricane Express (1932), The Hazards of Helen (1914) and Hills of Missing Men (1922). He was married to Katherine Evangeline and Helen Holmes.
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J.P. McGowan (1880ndash;1952) was one of Hollywood's most prolific pioneers: actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and industrial advocate for the motion picture industry.
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Dec 14, 2017 · McGowan’s forty-year career in Hollywood, as well as his adventures prior to joining Kalem in 1909, is expertly detailed by South Australian author John McGowan in Hollywood’s First Australian, a revised edition of his 2005 book J.P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer.
