Miriam Cooper

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1891-11-06 (85 years old)

Deathday

1976-04-12

Place of Birth

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Miriam Cooper

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miriam Cooper (November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1923 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miriam Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1915

The Birth of a Nation

as Margaret Cameron

2019

1918

The Woman and the Law

as Blanquetta La Salle

1913

Shenandoah

as Madeline West

1913

A Railroad Wooing

as Alice Holmes - Jim's Sweetheart

1913

Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Topsy - Aunt Ophelia's Slave

1914

The Odalisque

as Annie, May's Friend

1919

Evangeline

as Evangeline

1914

1915

The Burned Hand

as Marietta

1921

Serenade

as Maria del Carmen

1918

The Prussian Cur

as Rosie O'Grady

1919

The Mother and the Law

as The Friendly One

1922

Kindred of the Dust

as Nan of the Sawdust Pile

1917

1914

Home, Sweet Home

as The Fiancee

1923

The Broken Wing

as Inez Villera

1923

1975

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

1923

Is Money Everything?

as Marion Brand

1920

The Deep Purple

as Doris Moore

1919

1917

The Innocent Sinner

as Mary Ellen Ellis

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