Floyd Martin Thornton

Floyd Martin Thornton (often credited as F. Martin Thornton, November 4, 1884 – April 1, 1956) was an American screenwriter and film director active in the United Kingdom in the 1910s and 1920s.

[1][2] Born in 1884 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he worked for some years in England.

In 1915 he married the British actress Evelyn Boucher at Steyning in West Sussex.

[4] In 1925 he and his family left the UK for America,[4] where they all remained for the rest of their lives.

This article about a United States film director born in the 1880s is a stub.

Poster for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1914), directed by Thornton
Swan in the Land of the Sky Blue Water (1940), watercolor by F. Thornton Martin purchased by the Section of Painting and Sculpture and now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum