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
- In Old Caliente as Aunt Felicia Vargas
- Days of Jesse James as Mrs. Martha Samuels
- 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 Merry Frinks as United Charities Worker
- The Crime Doctor as Miss Farnum, Gifford's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
- The Fighting Parson as Betsy Larkin
- The Eleventh Commandment as Mabel Moore
- Female as Alison's Secretary (Uncredited)
- The Important Witness as Bride
- The Big Bluff
1932
- Love Me Tonight as Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)
- The Trial of Vivienne Ware as Gossip (uncredited)
- The Thirteenth Guest as Jane Thornton
- The Racing Strain as Aunt Judy
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Mrs. Guppy
- Love in High Gear as Arabella Heath
- Tangled Destinies as Prudence Daggott
- Klondike as Sadie Jones
- A Man's Land as Aunt Flossie Doolittle
1931
- The Flood as Aunt Constance
- The Criminal Code as Katie Ryan
- Subway Express as Mrs. Cotton
- Maker of Men as Aunt Martha
- Honeymoon Lane as Mrs. Gotrocks
- Gold Dust Gertie as Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)
1930
- Love Among the Millionaires as Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)
- Loose Ankles as Aunt Katherine Harper
- The Dude Wrangler as Mattie
- Under Montana Skies as Martha Jenkins
- Tom Sawyer as Mrs. Harper
1929
- Blue Skies as Matron (episode 1)
- The Saturday Night Kid as Lily Woodruff
- The Girl in the Show as Mrs. Truxton
- The Donovan Affair as Mrs. Lindsey
- The Doctor's Secret as Mrs. Redding
- Furnace Trouble
1928
- Craig's Wife as Eliza
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Mrs. Spivers
- Taxi 13 as Mrs. Mactavish
- The Perfect Crime as Mrs. Frisbie
- Tenth Avenue as Ma Mason
- The Masks of the Devil as Virginia's Aunt
- On to Reno as Mrs. Holmes
1927
- Cradle Snatchers as Ethel Drake
- My Friend from India as Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith
- The Wreck of the Hesperus as Deborah Slocum
- Almost Human as Katie
- The Country Doctor as Redora Bump
- The Satin Woman as 'Countess' Debris
- The Girl in the Pullman as Mrs. Jones
1926
- Take It from Me as Miss Abbott
- Made for Love as Lady Diana Trent
- Ladies at Play as Aunt Sarah
- Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl as Mrs. Sloan
- Wandering Footsteps as Matilda
1925
- Shattered Lives as Elizabeth Trent
- Go Straight! as Mamie
- When Husbands Flirt as Mrs. Wilbur Belcher
- Beggar on Horseback as Mrs. Cady
- The Rag Man as Mrs. Bernard
- The Monster as Mrs. Watson
- Don't as Mrs. Moffat
- The Overland Limited as Mrs. Barton
- The Wedding Song as Auntie
- Let Women Alone as Ma Benham
1924
- Merton of the Movies as Mrs. Montague
- Loving Lies as Penny Wise
- The Bedroom Window as Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)
- Lovers' Lane as Aunt Melissy
- The White Sin as Aunt Cynthia
- Revelation as Madame Hofer
- Icebound as Ella Jordan
- Which Shall It Be? as Mrs. Moore
1923
- The Grail
- The Covered Wagon as Mrs. Wingate
- The Fog as Mrs. Forge
- The Marriage Maker as Mrs. Hope-Clarke
- Stepping Fast as Miss Higgins
1922
- Manslaughter as Prisoner
- Saturday Night as Party Guest
- The Old Homestead as Aunt Matilda
- Is Matrimony a Failure? as Mrs. Skinner
- The Bonded Woman as Lucita
- Bobbed Hair as Mrs. Lamont
- Our Leading Citizen as Eudora Mawdle
- Nice People as Mrs. Heyfer
1921
- Midsummer Madness as Mrs. Hicks
- Miss Lulu Bett as Grandma Bett
- After the Show as Landlady