Yorke Film Corporation

Yorke Film Corporation was a film company. The company's films were distributed by Metro Pictures. Fred J. Balshofer and Joseph Engel were involved with the company.^[1] Balshofer formed the company to produce films pairing the popular Harold Lockwood and May Allison. Lockwood died of influenza in 1918.^[2] The company relocated to Los Angeles and took over a studio from Nevada Film Company.^[3]

Ad for Pals First

Advertisement for Shadows of Suspicion, Lockwood's last film as he died of influenza during production

A photograph of Lockwood with two child actors was taken during production of Big Tremaine.^[4]

On December 2, 1916, May Allison was featured on the cover of Motography while she was part of Yorke Film Company.

Many of the films were shot on location.^[5]

Filmography

• The Masked Rider (1916),
• Pidgin Island (1916),
• Big Tremaine (1916)
• Mister 44 (1916)
• The River of Romance (1916 film)
• Paradise Garden (1917)
• The Hidden Spring (1917)
• The Avenging Trail (1917)
• The Promise (1917)^[6]
• The Winding Trail (1918 film)
• The Landloper (1918)
• Lend Me Your Name (1918)
• Pals First (1918)
• Broadway Bill (1918 film)
• Shadows of Suspicion (1919)
• The Great Romance (film) (1919)
• A Man of Honor (1919)
• The Haunted Pajamas (1917), a follow-up to Hidden Spring^[7]
• The Promise (Yorke film)
• Under Handicap
• Broadway Bill
• The Square Deceiver
• The Hidden Spring

Further reading

• One Reel a Week by Fred J. Balshofer, University of California Press (1967)