John Bengtson(1957-2026)
- Writer
John Bengtson is a business lawyer, film historian, and author of the
acclaimed series of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd
film location books Silent Echoes, Silent Traces, and Silent Visions,
each from Santa Monica Press. John's work has been hailed by the New
York Times as a "Proustian collage of time and memory, biography and
history, urban growth and artistic expression," which dubs him "the
great detective of silent film locations."
John has written and narrated numerous video programs including Harold Lloyd: Big Man on Campus (2014), Silent Traces: Modern Times (2010), and Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations (2010).
Bengtson is a frequent speaker at events hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Turner Classic Movie Channel Festival, Cineteca di Bologna in Italy, The Museum of the Moving Image, and Film Forum, both in New York, the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
John has written and narrated numerous video programs including Harold Lloyd: Big Man on Campus (2014), Silent Traces: Modern Times (2010), and Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations (2010).
Bengtson is a frequent speaker at events hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Turner Classic Movie Channel Festival, Cineteca di Bologna in Italy, The Museum of the Moving Image, and Film Forum, both in New York, the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
