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
- Above the Clouds as Mother
- Secrets as Susan Carlton
1928
- Show Folks as Kitty Mayo
1921
- The Breaking Point as Ruth Marshall
1920
- A Woman Who Understood as Madge Graham
- The Notorious Mrs. Sands as Mary Ware
- The Luck of Geraldine Laird as Geraldine Laird
- Life's Twist as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce
- The Broken Gate as Aurora Lane
1919
- Beckoning Roads as Marquita Shay
- A Trick of Fate as Anna Gerard / Mary Lee
- All of a Sudden Norma as Norma Brisbane
- The Woman Michael Married as Mira Sacky
- Kitty Kelly, M.D. as Dr. Kitty Kelly
- Her Purchase Price as Sheka
- Hearts Asleep as Nancy
- Josselyn's Wife as Ellen Latimer Josselyn
1918
- Two-Gun Betty as Betty Craig
- Madam Who as Jeanne Beaufort
- The Heart of Rachael as Rachael
- Maid o' the Storm as Ariel
- The White Lie as Dorothy Kingsley
- Patriotism as Robin Cameron
- Rose o' Paradise as Virginia Singleton
1917
- Wooden Shoes as Pampy
- The Hater of Men as Janice Salsbury
- Borrowed Plumage as Nora
1916
- Home as Bessie Wheaton
- A Corner in Colleens as Shamrock
- The Green Swamp as Margery Allison
- Bullets and Brown Eyes as Countess Olga
- Honor's Altar as Winnie Mallory
- Plain Jane as Jane, 'The Orphint'
1915
- The Cup of Life as Helen Fiske
- The Reward as Jane Wallace
- The Devil as Isabella Zanden
1914
- The Rose of the Rancho as Juanita Castro
- Ready Money as Grace Tyler
- The Making of Bobby Burnit as Agnes Elliston