A graduate of Cambridge University and a prominent actor/manager, Harley Knoles played Kephren to Helen Gardner's Cleopatra (1912) before embarking on a fairly distinguished career as a director of melodramas for American film companies such as World, Famous Players, and the Mayflower Photoplay Corp., often working in collaboration with his Canadian-born wife Pinna Nesbitt. Knoles, who helmed a 1918 version...
