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
- Wyoming as Mrs. Bronson
- Young Bill Hickok as Mrs. Stout
- Hidden Gold as Matilda Purdy
1939
- Let Us Live as Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)
- Days of Jesse James as Mrs. Martha Samuels
- In Old Caliente as Aunt Felicia Vargas
- Sudden Money as Miss Perkins
- Frontier Pony Express as Mrs. Murphy
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
- Bar 20 Rides Again as Clary Peters
- Another Face as Aunt Hattie (uncredited)
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 Fighting Parson as Betsy Larkin
- The Eleventh Commandment as Mabel Moore
- The Important Witness as Bride
- The Big Bluff
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Mrs. Guppy
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Gossip (uncredited)
- The Thirteenth Guest as Jane Thornton
- Tangled Destinies as Prudence Daggott
- Love in High Gear as Arabella Heath
- The Racing Strain as Aunt Judy
- Klondike as Sadie Jones
- A Man's Land as Aunt Flossie Doolittle
1931
- The Flood as Aunt Constance
- The Criminal Code as Katie Ryan
- Honeymoon Lane as Mrs. Gotrocks
- Maker of Men as Aunt Martha
- Gold Dust Gertie as Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)
- Subway Express as Mrs. Cotton
1930
- The Dude Wrangler as Mattie
- Under Montana Skies as Martha Jenkins
- Tom Sawyer as Mrs. Harper
- Love Among the Millionaires as Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
- Loose Ankles as Aunt Katherine Harper
1929
- Blue Skies as Matron (episode 1)
- The Donovan Affair as Mrs. Lindsey
- The Saturday Night Kid as Lily Woodruff
- The Girl in the Show as Mrs. Truxton
- The Doctor's Secret as Mrs. Redding
- Furnace Trouble
1928
- Craig's Wife as Eliza
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Mrs. Spivers
- The Masks of the Devil as Virginia's Aunt
- The Perfect Crime as Mrs. Frisbie
- Tenth Avenue as Ma Mason
- Taxi 13 as Mrs. Mactavish
- On to Reno as Mrs. Holmes
1927
- The Wreck of the Hesperus as Deborah Slocum
- The Girl in the Pullman as Mrs. Jones
- The Country Doctor as Redora Bump
- Cradle Snatchers as Ethel Drake
- My Friend from India as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
- Almost Human as Katie
- The Satin Woman as 'Countess' Debris
1926
- Made for Love as Lady Diana Trent
- Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl as Mrs. Sloan
- Ladies at Play as Aunt Sarah
- Wandering Footsteps as Matilda
- Take It from Me as Miss Abbott
1925
- Shattered Lives as Elizabeth Trent
- Go Straight! as Mamie
- When Husbands Flirt as Mrs. Wilbur Belcher
- The Monster as Mrs. Watson
- The Rag Man as Mrs. Bernard
- The Wedding Song as Auntie
- Beggar on Horseback as Mrs. Cady
- The Overland Limited as Mrs. Barton
- Don't as Mrs. Moffat
- Let Women Alone as Ma Benham
1924
- Merton of the Movies as Mrs. Montague
- The Bedroom Window as Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)
- Revelation as Madame Hofer
- Loving Lies as Penny Wise
- The White Sin as Aunt Cynthia
- Lovers' Lane as Aunt Melissy
- Which Shall It Be? as Mrs. Moore
- Icebound as Ella Jordan
1923
- The Grail
- The Covered Wagon as Mrs. Wingate
- Stepping Fast as Miss Higgins
- The Fog as Mrs. Forge
- The Marriage Maker as Mrs. Hope-Clarke
1922
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mrs. Skinner
- Manslaughter as Prisoner
- Saturday Night as Party Guest
- Bobbed Hair as Mrs. Lamont
- The Old Homestead as Aunt Matilda
- Nice People as Mrs. Heyfer
- Our Leading Citizen as Eudora Mawdle
- The Bonded Woman as Lucita
1921
- Miss Lulu Bett as Grandma Bett
- After the Show as Landlady
- Midsummer Madness as Mrs. Hicks