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
- Hidden Gold as Matilda Purdy
- Young Bill Hickok as Mrs. Stout
1939
- Let Us Live as Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)
- Frontier Pony Express as Mrs. Murphy
- Days of Jesse James as Mrs. Martha Samuels
- Sudden Money as Miss Perkins
- In Old Caliente as Aunt Felicia Vargas
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 Merry Frinks as United Charities Worker
- The Crime Doctor as Miss Farnum, Gifford's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
- Female as Alison's Secretary (Uncredited)
- The Fighting Parson as Betsy Larkin
- The Big Bluff
- The Eleventh Commandment as Mabel Moore
- The Important Witness as Bride
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Gossip (uncredited)
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Mrs. Guppy
- The Thirteenth Guest as Jane Thornton
- A Man's Land as Aunt Flossie Doolittle
- Love in High Gear as Arabella Heath
- The Racing Strain as Aunt Judy
- Klondike as Sadie Jones
- Tangled Destinies as Prudence Daggott
1931
- The Flood as Aunt Constance
- The Criminal Code as Katie Ryan
- Maker of Men as Aunt Martha
- Gold Dust Gertie as Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)
- Subway Express as Mrs. Cotton
- Honeymoon Lane as Mrs. Gotrocks
1930
- Love Among the Millionaires as Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
- The Dude Wrangler as Mattie
- Under Montana Skies as Martha Jenkins
- Tom Sawyer as Mrs. Harper
- Loose Ankles as Aunt Katherine Harper
1929
- Blue Skies as Matron (episode 1)
- The Saturday Night Kid as Lily Woodruff
- The Girl in the Show as Mrs. Truxton
- 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
- The Masks of the Devil as Virginia's Aunt
- The Perfect Crime as Mrs. Frisbie
- Taxi 13 as Mrs. Mactavish
- On to Reno as Mrs. Holmes
- Tenth Avenue as Ma Mason
1927
- My Friend from India as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
- 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
- The Satin Woman as 'Countess' Debris
- Almost Human as Katie
1926
- Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl as Mrs. Sloan
- Take It from Me as Miss Abbott
- Made for Love as Lady Diana Trent
- Ladies at Play as Aunt Sarah
- Wandering Footsteps as Matilda
1925
- Shattered Lives as Elizabeth Trent
- Go Straight! as Mamie
- Beggar on Horseback as Mrs. Cady
- The Rag Man as Mrs. Bernard
- When Husbands Flirt as Mrs. Wilbur Belcher
- The Wedding Song as Auntie
- Don't as Mrs. Moffat
- The Monster as Mrs. Watson
- The Overland Limited as Mrs. Barton
- Let Women Alone as Ma Benham
1924
- Merton of the Movies as Mrs. Montague
- The Bedroom Window as Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)
- The White Sin as Aunt Cynthia
- Which Shall It Be? as Mrs. Moore
- Loving Lies as Penny Wise
- Revelation as Madame Hofer
- Icebound as Ella Jordan
- Lovers' Lane as Aunt Melissy
1923
- The Grail
- The Covered Wagon as Mrs. Wingate
- The Marriage Maker as Mrs. Hope-Clarke
- Stepping Fast as Miss Higgins
- The Fog as Mrs. Forge
1922
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mrs. Skinner
- Saturday Night as Party Guest
- The Bonded Woman as Lucita
- Manslaughter as Prisoner
- Nice People as Mrs. Heyfer
- Our Leading Citizen as Eudora Mawdle
- The Old Homestead as Aunt Matilda
- Bobbed Hair as Mrs. Lamont
1921
- Miss Lulu Bett as Grandma Bett
- After the Show as Landlady
- Midsummer Madness as Mrs. Hicks