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Bessie Barriscale
Acting
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 …
Filmography
Movies
Beloved
as Mrs. Walkins
Secrets
as Susan Carlton
Above the Clouds
as Mother
Show Folks
as Kitty Mayo
The Breaking Point
as Ruth Marshall
Life's Twist
as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce
The Luck of Geraldine Laird
as Geraldine Laird
The Notorious Mrs. Sands
as Mary Ware
A Woman Who Understood
as Madge Graham
The Broken Gate
as Aurora Lane