Bessie Barriscale
Born: 1884-09-30 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1965-06-30
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Bessie Barriscale (September 30, 1884 – June 30, 1965) was an American silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s. She was born Elizabeth Barry Scale, in Hoboken, New Jersey to Irish immigrants from County Cork. Her cousins were actresses Edith and Mabel Taliaferro. In the first decade of the 20th century Barriscale worked in the legitimate theatre on Broadway and on the road as movies were not popular for stage actors yet. She began her film career in 1913, and worked intensively for New York Motion Picture Company and Triangle Film Corporation (among other studios) until she announced her retirement in the early 1930s.
Filmography
1934
- Beloved as Mrs. Walkins
1933
- Secrets as Susan Carlton
- Above the Clouds as Mother
1928
- Show Folks as Kitty Mayo
1921
- The Breaking Point as Ruth Marshall
1920
- The Notorious Mrs. Sands as Mary Ware
- The Broken Gate as Aurora Lane
- Life's Twist as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce
- A Woman Who Understood as Madge Graham
- The Luck of Geraldine Laird as Geraldine Laird
1919
- The Woman Michael Married as Mira Sacky
- Beckoning Roads as Marquita Shay
- Kitty Kelly, M.D. as Dr. Kitty Kelly
- A Trick of Fate as Anna Gerard / Mary Lee
- Her Purchase Price as Sheka
- Josselyn's Wife as Ellen Latimer Josselyn
- All of a Sudden Norma as Norma Brisbane
- Hearts Asleep as Nancy
1918
- Two-Gun Betty as Betty Craig
- The White Lie as Dorothy Kingsley
- Patriotism as Robin Cameron
- Madam Who as Jeanne Beaufort
- The Heart of Rachael as Rachael
- Maid o' the Storm as Ariel
- Rose o' Paradise as Virginia Singleton
1917
- The Hater of Men as Janice Salsbury
- Borrowed Plumage as Nora
- Wooden Shoes as Pampy
1916
- Home as Bessie Wheaton
- Honor's Altar as Winnie Mallory
- Plain Jane as Jane, 'The Orphint'
- Bullets and Brown Eyes as Countess Olga
- The Green Swamp as Margery Allison
- A Corner in Colleens as Shamrock
1915
- The Devil as Isabella Zanden
- The Reward as Jane Wallace
- The Cup of Life as Helen Fiske
1914
- The Making of Bobby Burnit as Agnes Elliston
- The Rose of the Rancho as Juanita Castro
- Ready Money as Grace Tyler