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Walter R. Booth

Walter R. Booth

Birthday: | Place of Birth: Worcester, England, UK

Walter Robert Booth (12 July 1869 – 1938) was a British magician and early pioneer of British film working first for Robert W. Paul and then Charles Urban mostly on "trick" films, where he pioneered techniques that led to what has been described as the first British animated film, The Hand of the Artist (1906).

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
Secrets of British Animation

as    Self (archive Footage)

1907
Comedy Cartoons

as    The artist

1906
A Lively Quarter Day

as    The conjurer

1901
Artistic Creation

as    The cartoonist

1899
Upside Down; or, The Human Flies

as    Professor of spiritualism