Ethel Clayton
Born: 1882-11-08 in Champaign, Illinois, USA
Died: 1966-06-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
1943
- Mardi Gras as Mardi Gras Woman
- True to Life as Woman (uncredited)
- Dixie as Woman (uncredited)
1942
- The Major and the Minor as Ball Guest (uncredited)
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
1941
- West Point Widow as Nurse
- New York Town as (uncredited)
1940
- Love Thy Neighbor as Minor Role
1939
- King of Chinatown as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The Sap Takes a Wrap as Mrs. Wallace
- Boy Trouble
- Geronimo
- Cafe Society as Woman
1938
- If I Were King as Old Woman (uncredited)
- You and Me as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
- Say It in French as Bit Part (uncredited)
- Cocoanut Grove as Undetermined Role
- Men with Wings as Woman
1937
- Make Way for Tomorrow as Customer (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Pioneer Woman
- Easy Living as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Waikiki Wedding as Tourist (uncredited)
- Turn Off the Moon as Lady (uncredited)
- Hold 'Em Navy as Girl
- Artists & Models as Seamtress (uncredited)
- Exclusive
- Rich Relations as Mrs. Blair
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- Yours for the Asking as Casino Patron (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger
1933
- Let's Fall in Love as Star
- Secrets as Audrey Carlton
- Private Jones as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
1932
- The All-American as Mrs. Bowen
- The Crooked Circle as Yvonne
- Thrill of Youth as Alice Fenwick
1930
1929
- Hit the Deck as Mrs. Payne
1927
- The Princess from Hoboken as Mrs. O'Brien
- The Princess on Broadway as Mrs. Seymour
1926
- The Bar-C Mystery as Mrs. Lane
- His New York Wife as Alicia Duval
- Sunny Side Up as Cissy Cason
- Merry Widower as The Hunter's Wife
- Risky Business as Mrs. Stoughton
1925
- Lightnin' as Margaret Davis
- Wings of Youth as Katherine Manners
1923
- Can a Woman Love Twice? as Mary Grant
- The Remittance Woman as Marie Campbell
1922
- Her Own Money as Mildred Carr
- If I Were Queen as Ruth Townley
- The Cradle as Margaret Harvey
- For the Defense as Anne Woodstock
1921
- Wealth as Mary McLeod
- The Price of Possession as Helen Carston
- Exit the Vamp as Marion Shipley
- Sham as Katherine Van Riper
- Beyond as Avis Langley
1920
- A Lady in Love as Barbara Martin
- The Sins of Rosanne as Roseanne Ozanne
- The 13th Commandment as Daphne Kip
- The Ladder of Lies as Edith Parrish
- Young Mrs. Winthrop as Constance Winthrop
- A City Sparrow as Milly West
- Crooked Streets as Gail Ellis
1919
- Men, Women, and Money as Marcel Middleton
- More Deadly Than the Male as Helen O'Hara
- Pettigrew's Girl as Daisy Heath
- A Sporting Chance as Carey Brent
- Maggie Pepper as Maggie Pepper
1918
- The Mystery Girl as Countess Therese
- The Witch Woman as Marie Beaupre
- Women's Weapons as Anne Elliot
- Stolen Hours as Diana Lester
1917
- Yankee Pluck as Polly Pollard
- The Bondage of Fear as Vesta Wheatley
- The Web of Desire as Grace Miller
- The Dormant Power
- Man's Woman as Violet Galloway
- The Woman Beneath as Betty Fairchild
- The Stolen Paradise
- The Volunteer as Self - Cameo Appearance
1916
- Dollars and the Woman as Madge Hilyer
- His Brother's Wife as Helen Barton
- A Woman's Way as Marion Livingston
- Husband and Wife as Doris Baker
- The Hidden Scar as Janet Hall
- Beyond the Wall as Helen Carlton
- The New South as Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
1915
- His Soul Mate as Nellie - the Stenographer
- The Unmarried Husband as Nell - the Actress Wife
- The Sporting Duchess as Lady Muriel Desborough
- A Woman Went Forth as Ethel Rogers
- Here Comes the Bride as Reed's Stenographer
- The Great Divide as Ruth Jordan
- It All Depends as Clara Dean
1914
- The Lion and the Mouse as Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
- The Wolf as Jules' Sweetheart
- The House Next Door as Ulrica Cotswolt
- The Fortune Hunter as Betty Graham
1913
- When the Earth Trembled as Dora Sims
- Friend John as Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
- The Price Demanded as Rose Delane
1912
- Pilgrim's Progress as Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
- Just Maine Folks as Ethel Walters
1910
- The Tout's Remembrance as Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter