death_place death_date years_active birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
los angeles , california , united states 18 january 1911 1897 - 1911 warners , new york , united states may 26 , 1858 arthur marvin
 arthur weed marvin cinematographer
arthur marvin

arthur weed marvin -lrb- may 26 , 1858 -- january 18 , 1911 -rrb- , was an american cinematographer who worked for the american mutoscope and biograph company in which his brother henry -lrb- ` harry ' -rrb- marvin was one of the four founders -lrb- the others being herman casler , william kennedy laurie dickson and elias koopman -rrb- .
he shot 418 films between 1897 and 1911 , including `` the adventures of dollie '' -lrb- 1908 -rrb- , the directorial debut of d. w. griffith , as well as other early griffith shorts such as `` pippa passes '' in 1909 .
he directed the short film `` sherlock holmes baffled '' , which was the earliest known film to feature arthur conan doyle 's detective character sherlock holmes .
his nephew daniel warner marvin ii , henry 's son , perished in the sinking of the rms `` titanic '' in 1912 .
he was born in warners , new york , usa to daniel warner marvin and ellen jane weed .
he was married to sarah e. babcock .
he died in los angeles , california .
