William Kennedy Dickson
Scottish photographer and inventor of motion picture cameras (1860-1935)
1.13body-of-work score · ranked #785 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 3, 1860 · Le Minihic-sur-Rance
- Died
- September 28, 1935 · Twickenham
- Nationality
- United Kingdom, United States, France
- Work
- inventor, film director, film producer, cinematographer
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.231 citation
- 20.231 citation
- 30.231 citation
- 4
1895 · United States · documentary, silent
National Film Registry (inducted 2024)
0.231 citation - 5
1895 · United States · musical
National Film Registry (inducted 2003)
0.231 citation
Complete filmography
All 131 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1889Monkeyshines
- 1890Monkeyshines, No. 2
- 1890Monkeyshines, No. 3
- 1891Dickson Greeting
- 1891Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
- 1891Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
- 1891Duncan Smoking
- 1891Men Boxing
- 1891Monkey and Another, Boxing
- 1891Newark Athlete
- 1892A Hand Shake
- 1892Boxing
- 1892Fencing
- 1892Man on Parallel Bars
- 1892Wrestling
- 1893Blacksmith Scene
- 1893Horse Shoeing
- 1893The Barbershop
- 1894A Bar Room Scene
- 1894Alleni's Boxing Monkeys
- 1894Amateur Gymnast, No. 2
- 1894Annabelle Sun Dance
- 1894Annie Oakley
- 1894Armand D'Ary
- 1894Athlete with Wand
- 1894Babies in High Chairs
- 1894Band Drill
- 1894Bertoldi (Mouth Support)
- 1894Bertoldi (Table Contortion)
- 1894Boxing
- 1894Boxing Match
- 1894Bucking Broncho
- 1894Buffalo Bill
- 1894Caicedo (with Spurs)
- 1894Caicedo, with Pole
- 1894Carmencita
- 1894Chinese Opium Den
- 1894Cock Fight
- 1894Cock Fight, No 2
- 1894Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
- 1894Cupid's Dance
- 1894Dance
- 1894Dance du Ventre
- 1894Dogs Fighting
- 1894Edison Employee Picnic
- 1894Fancy Club Swinger
- 1894Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag'
- 1894Fire Rescue Scene
- 1894Fred Ott Holding a Bird
- 1894Fred Ott's Sneeze
- 1894French Dancers
- 1894Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
- 1894Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing)
- 1894Hadj Cheriff
- 1894Highland Dance
- 1894Human Pyramid
- 1894Imperial Japanese Dance
- 1894Lady Fencers (With Broadswords)
- 1894Lady Fencers (With Foils)
- 1894Lasso Exhibition
- 1894Lasso Thrower
- 1894Leonard-Cushing Fight
- 1894Man of a Thousand Faces
- 1894May Lucas
- 1894Men on Parallel Bars
- 1894Miss Lucy Murray
- 1894Mlle. Capitaine
- 1894Organ Grinder No. 1
- 1894Organ Grinder No. 2
- 1894Oriental Dance
- 1894Rat Killing
- 1894Rats and Terrier No. 2
- 1894Rats and Terrier No. 3
- 1894Rats and Weasel
- 1894Ruth Dennis
- 1894Sandow
- 1894Sandow No. 3
- 1894Sheik Hadji Tahar
- 1894Sioux Ghost Dance
- 1894Summersault Dog
- 1894Sword Combat
- 1894The Boxing Cats
- 1894The Carnival Dance
- 1894The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
- 1894The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show'
- 1894The Widder
- 1894The Wrestling Dog
- 1894Topack and Steele
- 1894Toyou Kichi
- 1894Trained Bears
- 1894Trapeze
- 1894Unsuccessful Somersault
- 1894Walton and Slavin No. 1
- 1894Walton and Slavin No. 2
- 1894Walton and Slavin No. 3
- 1894Walton and Slavin No. 4
- 1894Whirlwind Gun Spinning
- 1894Wonderful Performing Dog
- 1894Wrestling Match
- 1895A West Indian Woman Bathing a Baby
- 1895Annabelle Serpentine Dance
- 1895Billy Edwards and the Unknown
- 1895Chinese Laundry Scene
- 1895Dr. Colton or Dentist Scene
- 1895Elsie Jones
- 1895Elsie Jones, No. 2
- 1895Gladiatorial Combat
- 1895Grotesque Tumbling
- 1895Grundy and Frint
- 1895James Grundy, Buck and Wing
- 1895James Grundy, Cake Walk
- 1895John W. Wilson and Bertha Waring
- 1895New Blacksmith Shop
- 1895Robetta and Doretto, No. 1
- 1895The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- 1896A Hard Wash
- 1896A Watermelon Feast
- 1896Awakening of Rip
- 1896Dancing Darkies
- 1896Exit of Rip and the Dwarf
- 1896McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
- 1896Rip Passing Over the Mountain
- 1896Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
- 1896Tambourine Dance by Annabelle
- 1898Pelicans at the Zoo
- 1898Roosters
- 1898Sua Santità papa Leone XIII
- 1899Harbor of Villefranche
- 1900English Nell
- 1901Bubina com cinetogramas de Santos Dumont
- 1901Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram