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
- Life's Twist as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce
- The Luck of Geraldine Laird as Geraldine Laird
- The Notorious Mrs. Sands as Mary Ware
- The Broken Gate as Aurora Lane
1919
- Hearts Asleep as Nancy
- Beckoning Roads as Marquita Shay
- Josselyn's Wife as Ellen Latimer Josselyn
- The Woman Michael Married as Mira Sacky
- Her Purchase Price as Sheka
- Kitty Kelly, M.D. as Dr. Kitty Kelly
- All of a Sudden Norma as Norma Brisbane
1918
- Rose o' Paradise as Virginia Singleton
- Maid o' the Storm as Ariel
- Madam Who as Jeanne Beaufort
- Patriotism as Robin Cameron
- The Heart of Rachael as Rachael
- The White Lie as Dorothy Kingsley
- Two-Gun Betty as Betty Craig
1917
- Borrowed Plumage as Nora
- The Hater of Men as Janice Salsbury
- Wooden Shoes as Pampy
1916
- 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'
- Home as Bessie Wheaton
1915
- The Reward as Jane Wallace
- The Devil as Isabella Zanden
- The Cup of Life as Helen Fiske
1914
- Ready Money as Grace Tyler
- The Rose of the Rancho as Juanita Castro
- The Making of Bobby Burnit as Agnes Elliston