Theda Bara

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1885-07-28 (70 years old)

Deathday

1955-04-07

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Theda Bara

Biography

From Wikipedia Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost because the 1937 Fox vault fire destroyed most of her films. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film. Bara died of stomach cancer in 1955 at the age...

Acting

1919

Kathleen Mavourneen

as Kathleen Mavourneen

1915

The Devil's Daughter

as La Gioconda

1915

Lady Audley's Secret

as Helen Talboys

1915

The Two Orphans

as Henriette

1916

Gold and the Woman

as Juliet DeCordova

1919

La belle Russe

as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe

1916

Her Double Life

as Mary Doone

1917

The Tiger Woman

as Princess Petrovitch

1917

Her Greatest Love

as Vera Herbert

1917

1917

Camille

as Marguerite Gautier

1918

The Forbidden Path

as Mary Lynde

1919

The Light

as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne

1919

Lure of Ambition

as Olga Dolan

1915

A Fool There Was

as The Vampire

1917

Cleopatra

as Cleopatra

1918

Salome

as Salome

1925

The Unchastened Woman

as Caroline Knollys

1916

East Lynne

as Lady Isabel Carlisle

1916

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Herself (archive footage)

1917

1918

The She Devil

as Lolette

1916

The Eternal Sapho

as Laura Bruffins

1919

A Woman There Was

as Princess Zara

1916

The Vixen

as Elsie Drummond

1926

Madame Mystery

as Madame Mysterieux

1915

Carmen

as Carmen

1919

The Siren's Song

as Marie Bernais

1919

When Men Desire

as Marie Lohr

1933

The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

1918

When a Woman Sins

as Lilian Marchard / Poppea

1917

The Rose Of Blood

as Lisza Tapenka

1918

Under the Yoke

as Maria Valverda

1917

Madame du Barry

as Madame du Barry

1915

Destruction

as Ferdinande Martin

1916

Under Two Flags

as Cigarette

1939

The Movies March On

as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)

1914

The Stain

as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)

1915

Sin

as Rosa

2006

1916

The Serpent

as Vania Lazar

1915

The Galley Slave

as Francesca Brabaut

1915

Kreutzer Sonata

as Celia Friedlander

Production

1918

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