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
- Wyoming as Mrs. Bronson
- Hidden Gold as Matilda Purdy
- Dark Command as Townswoman
- Young Bill Hickok as Mrs. Stout
1939
- Sudden Money as Miss Perkins
- Days of Jesse James as Mrs. Martha Samuels
- Frontier Pony Express as Mrs. Murphy
- In Old Caliente as Aunt Felicia Vargas
- Let Us Live as Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)
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 Eleventh Commandment as Mabel Moore
- The Big Bluff
- The Fighting Parson as Betsy Larkin
- The Important Witness as Bride
1932
- Tangled Destinies as Prudence Daggott
- Love Me Tonight as Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
- The Thirteenth Guest as Jane Thornton
- Love in High Gear as Arabella Heath
- Klondike as Sadie Jones
- A Man's Land as Aunt Flossie Doolittle
- The Racing Strain as Aunt Judy
1931
- Subway Express as Mrs. Cotton
- 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)
1930
- Tom Sawyer as Mrs. Harper
- Loose Ankles as Aunt Katherine Harper
- Love Among the Millionaires as Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
- The Dude Wrangler as Mattie
- Under Montana Skies as Martha Jenkins
1929
- The Saturday Night Kid as Lily Woodruff
- The Donovan Affair as Mrs. Lindsey
- Blue Skies as Matron (episode 1)
- The Girl in the Show as Mrs. Truxton
- The Doctor's Secret as Mrs. Redding
- Furnace Trouble
1928
- Taxi 13 as Mrs. Mactavish
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Mrs. Spivers
- The Perfect Crime as Mrs. Frisbie
- Craig's Wife as Eliza
- Tenth Avenue as Ma Mason
- On to Reno as Mrs. Holmes
- The Masks of the Devil as Virginia's Aunt
1927
- Almost Human as Katie
- Cradle Snatchers as Ethel Drake
- My Friend from India as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
- The Country Doctor as Redora Bump
- The Girl in the Pullman as Mrs. Jones
- The Satin Woman as 'Countess' Debris
- The Wreck of the Hesperus as Deborah Slocum
1926
- Made for Love as Lady Diana Trent
- Ladies at Play as Aunt Sarah
- Take It from Me as Miss Abbott
- Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl as Mrs. Sloan
- Wandering Footsteps as Matilda
1925
- The Wedding Song as Auntie
- The Rag Man as Mrs. Bernard
- Don't as Mrs. Moffat
- Let Women Alone as Ma Benham
- Go Straight! as Mamie
- The Monster as Mrs. Watson
- Beggar on Horseback as Mrs. Cady
- The Overland Limited as Mrs. Barton
1924
- Loving Lies as Penny Wise
- Revelation as Madame Hofer
- Icebound as Ella Jordan
- Merton of the Movies as Mrs. Montague
- Which Shall It Be?
- The Bedroom Window as Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)
- Lovers' Lane as Aunt Melissy
- The White Sin as Aunt Cynthia
1923
- The Covered Wagon as Mrs. Wingate
- The Grail
- The Marriage Maker as Mrs. Hope-Clarke
- Stepping Fast as Miss Higgins
- The Fog as Mrs. Forge
1922
- Manslaughter as Prisoner
- Saturday Night as Party Guest
- The Bonded Woman as Lucita
- The Old Homestead as Aunt Matilda
- Our Leading Citizen as Eudora Mawdle
- Bobbed Hair as Mrs. Lamont
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mrs. Skinner
- Nice People as Mrs. Heyfer
1921
- After the Show as Landlady
- Miss Lulu Bett as Grandma Bett
- Midsummer Madness as Mrs. Hicks