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