- Father with Isabelle Mabel MacArthur of Marian Constance Blackton and J. Stuart Blackton Jr.; father with Paula Blackton of Violet Virginia Blackton and Charles Stuart Blackton.
- Died in 1941 in Los Angeles several days after he was hit by a bus while crossing a street. He had long since lost whatever money he made during his salad days in the silent era, and died penniless. A friend from those days, director William P.S. Earle, bought a plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery and had Blackton's ashes interred there.
- With Albert E. Smith and William T. Rock, formed the pioneering film production company Vitagraph Company of America.
- Discovered Victor McLaglen in London and took him to Hollywood.
- Former President of the Motion Picture Board of Trade
- He was the first actor to portray Frederick Opper's comic strip character, Happy Hooligan.
- He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy (1909) & Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911).
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