Romaine Fielding (May 22, 1867 – December 15, 1927), was an American actor, screenwriter and film director.
Born William Grant Blandin in Riceville, Iowa, he worked and acted in live theatre for a number of years until 1911 when he turned to acting, writing and directing silent films for Philadelphia-based Lubin Studios. The flamboyant Fielding served as General Manager of Lubin's West Coast operations where he made a number of Mexican-themed western-style films and adventure films on location in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
He married Mabel van Valkenburg in 1907 but divorced ten years later. His second marriage in 1918 to Naomi Sachs, with whom he remained until his death, produced three children.
Following the demise of Lubin Studios in 1917, Romaine Fielding was out of filmmaking until 1920 after which he continued to work in film until his death in Hollywood at the age of fifty-nine from a blood clot. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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“Would mankind be but contented without the continual use of that little but significant pronoun “mine” or “my own,” with what luxurious delight might they revel in the property of others!... But if envy makes me sicken at the sight of everything that is excellent out of my own possession, then will the sweetest food be sharp as vinegar, and every beauty will in my depraved eyes appear as deformity.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)