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
- Dixie as Woman (uncredited)
- Mardi Gras as Mardi Gras Woman
- True to Life 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
- New York Town as (uncredited)
- West Point Widow as Nurse
1940
- Love Thy Neighbor as Minor Role
1939
- Boy Trouble
- Geronimo
- King of Chinatown as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
- The Sap Takes a Wrap as Mrs. Wallace
- Cafe Society as Woman
1938
- If I Were King as Old Woman (uncredited)
- You and Me as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
- Men with Wings as Woman
- Cocoanut Grove as Undetermined Role
- Say It in French as Bit Part (uncredited)
1937
- Artists & Models as Seamtress (uncredited)
- Rich Relations as Mrs. Blair
- Exclusive
- Easy Living as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Pioneer Woman
- Make Way for Tomorrow as Customer (uncredited)
- Hold 'Em Navy as Girl
- Waikiki Wedding as Tourist (uncredited)
1936
- Hollywood Boulevard as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Accusing Finger
- Yours for the Asking as Casino Patron (uncredited)
1933
- Secrets as Audrey Carlton
- Private Jones as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
- Let's Fall in Love as Star
1932
- Thrill of Youth as Alice Fenwick
- The Crooked Circle as Yvonne
- The All-American as Mrs. Bowen
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
- Risky Business as Mrs. Stoughton
- Merry Widower as The Hunter's Wife
- His New York Wife as Alicia Duval
- The Bar-C Mystery as Mrs. Lane
- Sunny Side Up as Cissy Cason
1925
- Lightnin' as Margaret Davis
- Wings of Youth as Katherine Manners
1923
- The Remittance Woman as Marie Campbell
1922
- The Cradle as Margaret Harvey
- Her Own Money as Mildred Carr
- If I Were Queen as Ruth Townley
- For the Defense as Anne Woodstock
1921
- Beyond as Avis Langley
- Sham as Katherine Van Riper
- The Price of Possession as Helen Carston
- Exit the Vamp as Marion Shipley
- Wealth as Mary McLeod
1920
- The 13th Commandment
- A City Sparrow as Milly West
- A Lady in Love as Barbara Martin
- The Sins of Rosanne as Roseanne Ozanne
- The Ladder of Lies as Edith Parrish
- Crooked Streets as Gail Ellis
- Young Mrs. Winthrop as Constance Winthrop
1919
- Maggie Pepper as Maggie Pepper
- Men, Women, and Money as Marcel Middleton
- More Deadly Than the Male as Helen O'Hara
- A Sporting Chance as Carey Brent
- Pettigrew's Girl as Daisy Heath
1918
- Women's Weapons as Anne Elliot
- The Witch Woman as Marie Beaupre
- Stolen Hours as Diana Lester
- The Mystery Girl as Countess Therese
1917
- The Volunteer as Self - Cameo Appearance
- Man's Woman as Violet Galloway
- Yankee Pluck as Polly Pollard
- The Web of Desire as Grace Miller
- The Bondage of Fear as Vesta Wheatley
- The Dormant Power
- The Stolen Paradise
1916
- His Brother's Wife as Helen Barton
- The New South as Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
- The Hidden Scar as Janet Hall
- A Woman's Way as Marion Livingston
- Husband and Wife as Doris Baker
- Beyond the Wall as Helen Carlton
1915
- Here Comes the Bride as Reed's Stenographer
- It All Depends as Clara Dean
- His Soul Mate as Nellie - the Stenographer
- The Unmarried Husband as Nell - the Actress Wife
- The Sporting Duchess as Lady Muriel Desborough
- The Great Divide as Ruth Jordan
- A Woman Went Forth as Ethel Rogers
1914
- The Wolf as Jules' Sweetheart
- The Lion and the Mouse as Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
- The Fortune Hunter as Betty Graham
- The House Next Door as Ulrica Cotswolt
1913
- Friend John as Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
- The Price Demanded as Rose Delane
- When the Earth Trembled as Dora Sims
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