George Loane Tucker(1872-1921)
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
A former railroad clerk, Tucker made a name for himself in 1913 with a
film entitled
Traffic in Souls (1913), a
six-reel expose of white slavery. Tucker and
Carl Laemmle financed the sum of $57,000 to
make the film in New York, the film ultimately grossed $450,000. The
success of the film enabled Laemmle, under pressure from Thomas
Edison's Patent Trust, to follow the exodus to Hollywood and create his
own studio, Universal City. Tucker was married to actress
Elisabeth Risdon.
