J. Gordon Edwards

J. Gordon Edwards
Jacques Grétillat, J. Gordon Edwards, and Paulette Duval during the production of Nero, 1922
Born	June 24, 1867 Montreal, Province of Canada
Died	December 31, 1925(1925-12-31) (aged 58) New York City New York, U.S.
Occupation	Film director, film producer, screenwriter
Years active	1914–1924

J. Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867 – December 31, 1925) was a Canadian film director, producer, and writer who began his career as a stage actor and stage director.

Edwards made his directorial debut on film in the 1914 film St. Elmo.

Edwards went on helming all of the Fox Film Corporation's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 and 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox, and continued to direct until he died in 1925. One of his biggest projects was The Queen of Sheba (1921), a lost silent film which contained a huge chariot race, four years before Ben-Hur (1925). He was the stepgrandfather of director Blake Edwards.

J. Gordon Edwards died of pneumonia at age 58 in New York City and was interred at Kensico Cemetery in a grandiose private mausoleum with a minaret on each side similar to the Taj Mahal.