Irene Rich

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1891-10-11 (97 years old)

Deathday

1988-04-22

Place of Birth

Buffalo, New York, USA

Irene Rich

Biography

From Wikipedia Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies, as well as radio. Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother: She was the mother of Gail Russell's character in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman (1947); in ...

Acting

1940

The Mortal Storm

as Mrs. Roth

1947

1921

Desperate Trails

as Mrs. Walker

1919

The Lone Star Ranger

as Mrs. Laramie

1931

The Champ

as Linda Carleton

1948

Fort Apache

as Mrs. Mary O'Rourke

1921

1928

1927

Don't Tell the Wife

as Mrs. Cartier

1918

The Girl in His House

as Betty Burlingham

1923

Snowdrift

as Kitty (story)

1931

Five and Ten

as Jenny Rarick

1947

New Orleans

as Mrs. Rutledge Smith

1940

The Lady in Question

as Michele Morestan

1919

The Blue Bonnet

as Martha Drake

1921

A Voice in the Dark

as Blanche Walton

1942

This Time for Keeps

as Mrs. Bryant

1925

Lady Windermere's Fan

as Mrs. Erlynne

1929

Shanghai Rose

as Shanghai Rose

1924

Beau Brummel

as Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York

1920

Stop Thief

as Madge Carr

1931

Beau Ideal

as Lady Brandon

1947

Calendar Girl

as Lulu Varden

1922

The Ropin' Fool

as The Girl

1932

Her Mad Night

as Joan Manners

1932

Manhattan Tower

as Ann Burns

1924

Captain January

as Isabelle Morton

1932

Down To Earth

as Idy Peters

1940

Queen of the Yukon

as Sadie Martin

1939

Everybody's Hobby

as Mrs. Myra Leslie

1929

1923

Lucretia Lombard

as Lucretia Morgan

1938

Hollywood Handicap

as Woman at Racetrack

1928

Craig's Wife

as Harriet Craig

1931

1920

1920

Jes' Call Me Jim

as Miss Butterworth

1921

A Tale of Two Worlds

as Mrs. Carmichael

1924

Cytherea

as Fanny Randon

1927

The Desired Woman

as Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney

1931

The Mad Parade

as Mrs. Schuyler

1923

Defying Destiny

as Beth Alden

1926

Silken Shackles

as Denise Lake

1940

Keeping Company

as Mrs. Thomas

1941

Three Sons o' Guns

as Margaret Patterson

1923

Rosita

as The Queen

1925

Compromise

as Joan Trevore

1930

1922

The Trap

as The Teacher

1938

That Certain Age

as Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton

1930

On Your Back

as Julianne

1918

A Law Unto Herself

as Stephanie

1920

1923

Michael O'Halloran

as Nellie Minturn

1931

Father's Son

as Ruth Emory

1926

The Honeymoon Express

as Mary Lambert

1928

Women They Talk About

as Irene Mervin Hughes

1920

Godless Men

as 'Black Pawl's' Wife

1923

Brass

as Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.

1931

Wicked

as Mrs. Luther

1926

My Official Wife

as Hélène, Countess Orloff

1922

Brawn of the North

as Marion Wells

1930

So This Is London

as Mrs. Hiram Draper

1919

The Spite Bride

as Eileen Moore

1924

Being Respectable

as Suzanne Schuyler

1922

One Clear Call

as Maggie Thornton

1923

Dangerous Trails

as Grace Alderson

1927

The Climbers

as Duchess of Arrogan

1928

Beware of Married Men

as Myra Martin

1939

The Right Way

as Mrs. Martin

1923

Boy of Mine

as Ruth Latimer

1924

This Woman

as Carol Drayton

1925

The Pleasure Buyers

as Joan Wiswell

1925

1922

A Fool There Was

as Mrs. Schuyler

1924

Pal o' Mine

as Julia Montfort

1919

The Silver Girl

as Julia Raymond

1925

My Wife and I

as Mrs. James Borden

1948

Joan of Arc

as Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend

1927

The Silver Slave

as Bernice Randall

1925

Eve's Lover

as Eva Burnside

1920

The Strange Boarder

as Jane Ingraham

1928

Powder My Back

as Fritzi Foy

1924

A Lost Lady

as Marian Forrester

1929

The Exalted Flapper

as Queen Charlotte of Capra

1924

What the Butler Saw

as Mrs. Barrington

1919

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