Beynon, George William 10.sep.1883-4.jun.1965 Canada Manitoba, Portage La Prairie - USA Florida Pinellas, St Petersburg
conductor, arranger, bridge player, graduated in harmony and theory under Joseph Humfrey Anger from the University of Toronto, DM from the University of Leipzig Germany, 1915 residing in New York City where he was employed as music compiler and synchronizer for silent films, 1929 he lost his savings in the financial crash ; son and eldest child of lawyer/district registrar George William Beynon sr (Ontario, Elizabethtown-Kitley 6.dec.1856-22.may.1902 Portage La Prairie) and Mary Edith Williamson (Ontario, Toronto Brampton 14.jan.1864-) who married 10.may.1882 in Brampton ; brother of chess player Frank Percival Beynon (Manitoba, Minnedosa 20.oct.1888-2.sep.1918 Europe, killed in WWI action) ; 3.dec.1904 in Toronto he married Mary Ida Walker (Toronto 3.jun.1879-) ; 1948 in St Petersburg he married Eleanor Downing

[SSN gives erroneously born 1864 which is a confusion with the birthyear of his mother]

Title	Parts

[] Birth of a nation. Film score. New York 1915 director D. W. Griffith, composer Joseph Carl Breil conducted by George Beynon
[] The corner. Music for the silent film. Piano-conductor score music selected and arranged by George W. Beynon pub G. Schirmer New York for the Triangle Film Corp. 1915
[] The yankee girl. Music for the silent film. Piano conductor score music selected and arranged by George W. Beynon pub G. Schirmer New York for Paramount 1915
[] The gentleman from Indiana. Music for the silent film. Piano-conductor score music selected and arranged by George W. Beynon produced by Pallas Pictures pub G. Schirmer, New York for Paramount 1915
[] Jane. Music for the silent. film. Piano-conductor score selected and arranged by George W. Beynon produced by Pallas Pictures pub G. Schirmer, New York for Paramount 1915
[] The reform candidate. Music for the silent film. Piano-conductor score selected and arranged by George W. Beynon produced by Pallas Pictures pub G. Schirmer, New York 1915
[] The tongues of men. Music for the silent film. Piano-conductor score selected and arranged by George W. Beynon produced by the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Co. pub G. Schirmer, New York for Paramount 1916
[] The missing links. Music for the silent film. Piano conductor score music selected and arranged by George W. Beynon and Joseph Carl Breil pub G. Schirmer, New York 1916
[] The girl of my dreams. Film score. 1918
[] Laughing beauties. Intermezzo. Violin-conductor score music Irenee Berge, arranged by musician George W. Beynon pub Belwin, New York 1920
[] Mary Regan. Film score. 1921

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