Olive Tell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1894-09-27 (57 years old)

Deathday

1951-06-06

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Olive Tell

Biography

From Wikipedia Olive Tell (September 27, 1894 – June 6, 1951) was a stage and screen actress from New York City. She first appeared in motion pictures during World War I. Her early screen roles were in silent films like The Silent Master (1917), The Unforeseen (1917), Her Sister (1917), and National Red Cross Pageant (1917). Tell appeared opposite such popular film actors of the era as Donald Gallaher, Karl Dane, Ann Little, Rod La Rocque, Ethel Barrymore and a young Tallulah Bankhead. Tell married First National Pictures movie producer Henry M. Hobart in 1926. Her first husband was killed in World War I. Hobart and Tell moved to Californi...

Acting

1934

The Scarlet Empress

as Princess Johanna Elizabeth

1917

National Red Cross Pageant

as Louvain - Flemish episode

1918

Secret Strings

as Janet Newell

1928

Sailors' Wives

as Careth Lindsey

1931

Devotion

as Mrs. Trent

1935

Four Hours to Kill!

as Mrs. Madison

1937

Under Southern Stars

as Mrs. Jackson

1926

Summer Bachelors

as Mrs. Preston Smith

1934

The Witching Hour

as Mrs. Helen Thorne

1920

1936

Polo Joe

as Mrs. Hilton

1931

Ladies' Man

as Mrs. Fendley

1930

Cock o' the Walk

as Rosa Vallejo

1928

Soft Living

as Mrs. Rodney S. Bowen

1932

False Faces

as Mrs. Day

1929

The Trial of Mary Dugan

as Mrs. Gertrude Rice

1929

The Very Idea

as Marion Green

1931

Ten Cents a Dance

as Mrs. Carlton

1936

Brilliant Marriage

as Mrs. Jane Taylor

1919

The Trap

as The Schoolteacher Heroine

1935

Shanghai

as Mrs. Hilton

1927

Slaves of Beauty

as Anastasia Jones

1917

The Silent Master

as Miss Virginia Arlen

1917

The Unforseen

as Margaret Fielding

1920

Wings of Pride

as Olive Muir

1930

Lawful Larceny

as Vivan Hepburn

1933

Strictly Personal

as Mrs. Laura Castleton

1931

Delicious

as Mrs. Van Bergh

1925

Womanhandled

as Lucy Chatham

1930

The Right of Way

as Kathleen

1929

Hearts in Exile

as Annna Reskova

1934

Baby Take a Bow

as Mrs. Carson

1931

Woman Hungry

as Betty Temple

1926

The Prince of Tempters

as Duchess of Chatsfield

1920

1920

Clothes

as Olivia Sherwood

1921

Worlds Apart

as Elinor Ashe

1936

Yours for the Asking

as Society Woman (uncredited)

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