The youngest of the three filmmaking Ince brothers, he was a child actor in theater and became a cartoonist at Vitagraph in 1906. He soon began acting in films and became a director in 1912. Continuing as an actor, Ince had a penchant for impersonating Abraham Lincoln, for other directors as well as in his own mid-teens films Lincoln the Lover and The Highest Law. He helmed numerous films in the '20s, several of which he also acted in, including Bigger Than Barnum's, The Sea Wolf (appearing as Jack London's Wolf Larsen) and Chicago After Midnight. Ince found few directing opportunities in Hollywood after the advent of sound, although he continued to act in others' films, including Little Caesar and Law and Order. He relocated to England in 1934 and helmed numerous features there until his untimely death in an auto accident in 1937.
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Law of the Sea
Actor |
1938 | |||
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The Girl Thief
Actor |
1938 | |||
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It's Not Cricket
Director |
1937 | |||
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Side Street Angel
Director |
1937 | |||
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The Man Who Made Diamonds
Director |
1937 | |||
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The Perfect Crime
Actor, Director |
1937 | |||
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The Vulture
Director |
1937 | |||
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Fair Exchange
Director |
1936 | |||
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Gaol Break
Actor, Director |
1936 | |||
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Hail and Farewell
Director |
1936 | |||
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It's You I Want.
Director |
1936 | |||
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Jury's Evidence
Director |
1936 | |||
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Twelve Good Men
Director |
1936 | |||
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Black Mask
Director |
1935 | |||
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Blue Skies Again
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Blue Smoke
Actor, Director |
1935 | |||
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Crime Unlimited
Director |
1935 | |||
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Mr. What's-His-Name
Director |
1935 | |||
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Director |
1935 | |||
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Rolling Home
Actor, Director, Producer |
1935 | |||
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So You Won't Talk?
Actor |
1935 | |||
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A Glimpse of Paradise
Director |
1934 | |||
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Flaming Gold
Director |
1934 | |||
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No Escape
Actor, Director |
1934 | |||
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Havana Widows
Actor |
1933 | |||
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Lucky Devils
Director |
1933 | |||
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Malay Nights
Actor |
1933 | |||
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Men of America
Actor, Director |
1933 | |||
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The Big Payoff
Actor |
1933 | |||
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Girl of the Rio
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Guilty As Hell
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Law and Order
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Law of the Sea
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Men of Chance
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The County Fair
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Gorilla Ship
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Hatchet Man
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Lost Squadron
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Mouthpiece
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Pride of the Legion
Actor |
1932 | |||
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The Tenderfoot
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Gentleman's Fate
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Star Witness
Actor |
1931 | |||
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State's Attorney
Actor |
1931 | |||
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The Big Gamble
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Little Caesar
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Numbered Men
Actor |
1930 | |||
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The Big Fight
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Hardboiled
Director, Intertitle Writer |
1929 | |||
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Hurricane
Director |
1929 | |||
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Wall Street
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Chicago After Midnight
Actor, Director |
1928 | |||
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Danger Street
Director, Producer |
1928 | |||
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Hit of the Snow
Director |
1928 | |||
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Singapore Mutiny
Actor, Director |
1928 | |||
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Home Struck
Director |
1927 | |||
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Not for Publication
Actor, Director |
1927 | |||
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Shanghaied
Actor, Director, Producer |
1927 | |||
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Wandering Girls
Director |
1927 | |||
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Better Way
Actor, Director |
1926 | |||
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Bigger Than Barnum's
Actor, Director |
1926 | |||
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Breed of the Sea
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Director |
1926 | |||
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The Sea Wolf
Actor, Director |
1926 | |||
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Yellow Fingers
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Alias Mary Flynn
Director |
1925 | |||
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Lady Robin Hood
Director |
1925 | |||
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Playing With Souls
Director |
1925 | |||
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Smooth As Satin
Director |
1925 | |||
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Chorus Lady
Director |
1924 | |||
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Dynamite Smith
Director |
1924 | |||
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Moral Sinner
Director |
1924 | |||
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The House of Youth
Director |
1924 | |||
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The Uninvited Guest
Director |
1924 | |||
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Homeward Bound
Director |
1923 | |||
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Success
Director |
1923 | |||
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A Wide-Open Town
Director |
1922 | |||
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Channing of the Northwest
Actor, Director |
1922 | |||
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Reckless Youth
Director |
1922 | |||
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The Referee
Director |
1922 | |||
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A Man's Home
Director |
1921 | |||
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After Midnight
Director |
1921 | |||
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Highest Law
Director |
1921 | |||
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Wet Gold
Actor, Director |
1921 | |||
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Out Yonder
Director |
1920 | |||
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A Stitch in Time
Director |
1919 | |||
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Panther Woman
Director |
1919 | |||
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Sealed Hearts
Director |
1919 | |||
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The Perfect Lover
Director |
1919 | |||
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Too Many Crooks
Director |
1919 | |||
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Virtuous Men
Director |
1919 | |||
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$5000 an Hour
Director |
1918 | |||
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Five Thousand an Hour
Director |
1918 | |||
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Our Mrs. McChesney
Director |
1918 | |||
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Co-Respondent
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Argyle Case
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Awakening
Director |
1917 | |||
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Today
Director |
1917 | |||
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Combat
Director |
1916 | |||
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His Wife's Good Name
Director |
1916 | |||
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My Lady's Slipper
Director |
1916 | |||
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The Conflict
Director |
1916 | |||
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Count 'em
Director, Screenwriter |
1915 | |||
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From Headquarters
Director |
1915 | |||
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His Phantom Sweetheart
Director |
1915 | |||
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Sins of the Mothers
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Goddess
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Juggernaut
Director, Screenwriter |
1915 | |||
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Two Women
Director |
1915 | |||
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'midst Woodland Shadows
Director, Screenwriter |
1914 | |||
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413
Director |
1914 | |||
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Back to Broadway
Director, Screenwriter |
1914 | |||
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Diana's Dress Reform
Director |
1914 | |||
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He Never Knew
Director |
1914 | |||
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Lincoln, the Lover
Actor, Director, Screenwriter |
1914 | |||
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Painted World
Director |
1914 | |||
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Shadows of the Past
Director |
1914 | |||
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The Girl from Prosperity
Director |
1914 | |||
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The Lucky Elopement
Actor, Director |
1914 | |||
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Uncle Bill
Director |
1914 | |||
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Wife Wanted
Actor, Director |
1914 | |||
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A Regiment of Two
Actor, Director |
1913 | |||
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Fighting Chance
Director |
1913 | |||
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His Last Fight
Actor, Director |
1913 | |||
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Song Bird of the North
Director, Screenwriter |
1913 | |||
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Sweet Deception
Director |
1913 | |||
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The Classmates Frolic
Director, Screenwriter |
1913 | |||
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The Forgotten Latchkey
Director |
1913 | |||
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The Moulding
Director |
1913 | |||
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The Prince of Evil
Director |
1913 | |||
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The Swan Girl
Director, Screenwriter |
1913 | |||
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Two's Company, Three's a Crowd
Director |
1913 | |||
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Web
Director |
1913 | |||
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Why I Am Here
Director |
1913 | |||
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Wreck
Director |
1913 | |||
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Her Choice
Director, Screenwriter |
1912 | |||
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Song of the Shell
Director, Screenwriter |
1912 | |||
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The Seventh Son
Actor |
1912 | |||
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The Wood Violet
Director, Screenwriter |
1912 | |||
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A Tale of Two Cities
Actor |
1911 | |||
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The Star Spangled Banner
Actor |
1911 |