Frank Leon Smith

Known as "The Dean of Serial Writers," Smith was a writer from Maassachusetts who got his start working as an office boy in a Boston advertising agency. By 1915, Smith was looking for work with a better paycheck and his friend George B. Seitz placed him in the title department at Pathe where he wrote subtitles. The first serial he wrote was Bound and Gagged (1919), in which Seitz starred.