H.E. Aitken Overview:

Producer, H.E. Aitken, was born on Oct 4, 1877 in Waukesha, WI. Aitken died at the age of 78 on Aug 1, 1956 in Chicago, IL and was laid to rest in Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, WI.

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One of the founders of the American Film Mfg. Co., which later became the American Film Co., a major production company in the late 1910s and early 1920s, which began in Chicago but eventually set up shop in Santa Barbara, California.

Along with John R. Freuler, he founded the distribution outlet the Western Film Exchange on July 23, 1906.

In 1915, with brother Roy Aitken and partners Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann, started the Triangle Film Corp., which produced films by such directors as D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett and such stars as Lillian Gish and Douglas Fairbanks.

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