Ollie L. Sellers (born Oliver Sellers in 1885) was an American film director. Before becoming a director he was a production manager at
Triangle Film Corporation.[1] He worked with
Gloria Swanson.[2] He wrote the screenplay adapted from a novel and directed the 1920 film The Gift Supreme.
Pro-union films
Sellers directed the pro-union film The New Disciple in 1921 produced by labor organization the
Federal Film Corporation in
Seattle.[3][4] It was the most widely viewed labor film of the period, with an audience of more than one million people the year of its release.[4] The film featured
Alfred Allen,
Norris Johnson, and
Pell Trenton. The
silent film included titles from
Woodrow Wilson's 1913 New Freedom and told the story of a war veteran and a corrupt capitalist war profiteer.[5] It was an anti-
open shop film and an indictment of the
American plan.[6][7] Promotions for the film called for union members to "wait" on their film exchanges to show the film. Film production was supervised by
John Arthur Nelson who wrote the story which was published at the same time as the film release.
Personal life
Sellers married Camille Compton in 1907 and had one daughter Dorothy. His wife Camille died in 1916 at the age of 31.
Sellers married a "Mrs. Dunnington" in San Francisco in July 1919.[8]
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abBooker, M. Keith. (1999). Film and the American left : a research guide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 17–18.
ISBN0313309809.
OCLC40734788.