Bessie Barriscale

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1884-09-30 (81 years old)

Deathday

1965-06-30

Place of Birth

Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Bessie Barriscale

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 a...

Acting

1920

The Broken Gate

as Aurora Lane

1919

1919

Kitty Kelly, M.D.

as Dr. Kitty Kelly

1915

The Cup of Life

as Helen Fiske

1915

The Reward

as Jane Wallace

1916

Home

as Bessie Wheaton

1920

Life's Twist

as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce

1917

1928

Show Folks

as Kitty Mayo

1917

The Hater of Men

as Janice Salsbury

1918

Madam Who

as Jeanne Beaufort

1918

Rose o' Paradise

as Virginia Singleton

1918

Patriotism

as Robin Cameron

1918

1918

The White Lie

as Dorothy Kingsley

1914

1933

Secrets

as Susan Carlton

1914

The Rose of the Rancho

as Juanita Castro

1919

Josselyn's Wife

as Ellen Latimer Josselyn

1916

Plain Jane

as Jane, 'The Orphint'

1918

1915

The Devil

as Isabella Zanden

1916

Honor's Altar

as Winnie Mallory

1914

Ready Money

as Grace Tyler

1934

Beloved

as Mrs. Walkins

1919

1916

Bullets and Brown Eyes

as Countess Olga

1920

The Luck of Geraldine Laird

as Geraldine Laird

Production

1919

Hearts Asleep

as Producer

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