Ethel Wales
Born: 1878-04-04 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1952-02-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 - February 15, 1952) was an American actress, who appeared in 130 films during her 30-year career. She was the first wife of Wellington E. Wales (1886–1954), Mary Pickford's business manager during the height of her popularity. The couple had one son, Wellington Charles Wales (1918–1966), an editorial writer for the New York Times who died of a heart attack shortly after his 19 year-old son Samuel was killed in a train mishap. Her second husband was actor Hal Taliaferro.
Filmography
1950
- Tarnished as Ida Baker
1946
- Blonde Alibi as Landlady (Uncredited)
1944
- Lumberjack as Abbey Peters
1941
- Border Vigilantes as Aunt Jenifer
1940
- Dark Command as Townswoman
- Hidden Gold as Matilda Purdy
- Young Bill Hickok as Mrs. Stout
- Wyoming as Mrs. Bronson
1939
- Let Us Live as Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)
- In Old Caliente as Aunt Felicia Vargas
- Days of Jesse James as Mrs. Martha Samuels
- Frontier Pony Express as Mrs. Murphy
- Sudden Money as Miss Perkins
1938
- The Cowboy and the Lady as Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)
1937
- We Who Are About to Die as Travel Bureau Customer (uncredited)
1936
- Women Are Trouble as Hatchet-Faced Woman
1935
- Another Face as Aunt Hattie (uncredited)
- Bar 20 Rides Again as Clary Peters
1934
- The Crime Doctor as Miss Farnum, Gifford's Secretary (uncredited)
- The Merry Frinks as United Charities Worker
1933
- Female as Alison's Secretary (Uncredited)
- The Important Witness as Bride
- The Fighting Parson as Betsy Larkin
- The Big Bluff
- The Eleventh Commandment as Mabel Moore
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
- The Thirteenth Guest as Jane Thornton
- Tangled Destinies as Prudence Daggott
- The Racing Strain as Aunt Judy
- Klondike as Sadie Jones
- A Man's Land as Aunt Flossie Doolittle
- Love in High Gear as Arabella Heath
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Mrs. Guppy
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Gossip (uncredited)
1931
- The Criminal Code as Katie Ryan
- Gold Dust Gertie as Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)
- Honeymoon Lane as Mrs. Gotrocks
- Subway Express as Mrs. Cotton
- Maker of Men as Aunt Martha
- The Flood as Aunt Constance
1930
- Loose Ankles as Aunt Katherine Harper
- The Dude Wrangler as Mattie
- Under Montana Skies as Martha Jenkins
- Tom Sawyer as Mrs. Harper
- Love Among the Millionaires as Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
1929
- The Saturday Night Kid as Lily Woodruff
- The Girl in the Show as Mrs. Truxton
- Blue Skies as Matron (episode 1)
- The Doctor's Secret as Mrs. Redding
- The Donovan Affair as Mrs. Lindsey
- Furnace Trouble
1928
- Craig's Wife as Eliza
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Mrs. Spivers
- Taxi 13 as Mrs. Mactavish
- Tenth Avenue as Ma Mason
- The Masks of the Devil as Virginia's Aunt
- The Perfect Crime as Mrs. Frisbie
- On to Reno as Mrs. Holmes
1927
- The Satin Woman as 'Countess' Debris
- Cradle Snatchers as Ethel Drake
- The Country Doctor as Redora Bump
- The Wreck of the Hesperus as Deborah Slocum
- Almost Human as Katie
- My Friend from India as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
- The Girl in the Pullman as Mrs. Jones
1926
- Wandering Footsteps as Matilda
- Take It from Me as Miss Abbott
- Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl as Mrs. Sloan
- Ladies at Play as Aunt Sarah
- Made for Love as Lady Diana Trent
1925
- The Rag Man as Mrs. Bernard
- Go Straight! as Mamie
- The Monster as Mrs. Watson
- Let Women Alone as Ma Benham
- Beggar on Horseback as Mrs. Cady
- The Wedding Song as Auntie
- Don't as Mrs. Moffat
- When Husbands Flirt as Mrs. Wilbur Belcher
- The Overland Limited as Mrs. Barton
- Shattered Lives as Elizabeth Trent
1924
- Revelation as Madame Hofer
- Loving Lies as Penny Wise
- Merton of the Movies as Mrs. Montague
- The Bedroom Window as Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)
- Icebound as Ella Jordan
- The White Sin as Aunt Cynthia
- Lovers' Lane as Aunt Melissy
- Which Shall It Be? as Mrs. Moore
1923
- The Marriage Maker as Mrs. Hope-Clarke
- The Covered Wagon as Mrs. Wingate
- The Fog as Mrs. Forge
- Stepping Fast as Miss Higgins
- The Grail
1922
- Nice People as Mrs. Heyfer
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mrs. Skinner
- Manslaughter as Prisoner
- The Old Homestead as Aunt Matilda
- Saturday Night as Party Guest
- The Bonded Woman as Lucita
- Bobbed Hair as Mrs. Lamont
- Our Leading Citizen as Eudora Mawdle
1921
- Miss Lulu Bett as Grandma Bett
- After the Show as Landlady
- Midsummer Madness as Mrs. Hicks