- Edward Lorusso is a writer, producer, composer, and film historian. He has produced silent-film restorations for DVD, including The Restless Sex (1920), For Better, for Worse (1919), Beauty's Worth (1922), April Folly (1920), Buried Treasure (1921), On Dangerous Ground (1917), Ducks and Drakes (1921), The Bride's Play (1922), Enchantment (1921), Little Old New York (1923), Zander the Great (1925), Robes of Sin (1924), The Witness for the Defense (1919), Dinty (1920), The Apple-Tree Girl (1917), The Innocence of Ruth (1916), The Cossack Whip (1916), Getting Mary Married (1919), Other Men's Shoes (1920), Straight Is the Way (1921), Castles for Two (1917), The Unwritten Law (1925), The Awakening of Ruth (1917), The Valley of the Giants (1919), The Enchanted Cottage (1924), Vanity (1927), Stranded (1927), and Lost and Won (1917).
Six of these films have been broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.
He has also authored the book "The Silent Films of Marion Davies."
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- Author of "The Silent Films of Marion Davies" which was published in 2017.
- Has scored and performed music for many short silent films on DVD, including The Lonely Villa (1909), Sweedie Learns to Swim (1914), Brother of the Bear (1921), The Knight of the Pines (1920), Almost a Scandal (1915), Cupid, Registered Guide (1921), My Lady o' the Pines (1921), Where the Road Divided (1915), and A Two-Cylinder Courtship (1917).
- Co-founder, curator, and host of The Colonial Theater Silent Film Festival in Augusta, Maine, 2023.
- Was voted "Silent Film Hero of 2024" in the Silent London poll as "author, film preservationist and historian, who among his many projects, brought us The Enchanted Cottage Blu-ray, the latest in a long line of crowdfunded silent film discs.".
- Ed Lorusso is a frequent guest on podcasts, including Nitrateville with Mike Gebert, the Hungry Trilobyte with Aaron Bossig, Nutmeg Chatter with Phil Hall, and the Columbus Moving Picture Show Podcast.
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