Raymond Longford on AllMovie

Australia's most successful and admired film director of the early silent era, Raymond Longford appeared as an actor in films as early as 1911. With his partner, editor, and leading lady Lottie Lyell, Longford directed a series of popular melodramas that included The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1911), of which fragments still exist, and the surviving The Sentimental Bloke (1919), a genuine Australian classic set among denizens of the Woollamooloo waterfront in Melbourne. When the combine that dominated Australian film import more or less blacklisted him, Longford made films in New Zealand, including a version of The Mutiny on the Bounty (1916), which featured Maori aborigines as the Tahitian natives.