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 announced her retirement in the early 1930s.
Filmography
Beloved
1934
as Mrs. Walkins
Above the Clouds
1933
as Mother
Secrets
1933
as Susan Carlton
Show Folks
1928
as Kitty Mayo
The Breaking Point
1921
as Ruth Marshall
The Broken Gate
1920
as Aurora Lane
Life's Twist
1920
as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce
The Notorious Mrs. Sands
1920
as Mary Ware
A Woman Who Understood
1920
as Madge Graham
The Luck of Geraldine Laird
1920
as Geraldine Laird
Beckoning Roads
1919
as Marquita Shay
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
1919
as Dr. Kitty Kelly
Her Purchase Price
1919
as Sheka
The Woman Michael Married
1919
as Mira Sacky
Josselyn's Wife
1919
as Ellen Latimer Josselyn
Hearts Asleep
1919
as Nancy
A Trick of Fate
1919
as Anna Gerard / Mary Lee
All of a Sudden Norma
1919
as Norma Brisbane
Two-Gun Betty
1918
as Betty Craig
The Heart of Rachael
1918
as Rachael
The White Lie
1918
as Dorothy Kingsley
Maid o' the Storm
1918
as Ariel
Patriotism
1918
as Robin Cameron
Rose o' Paradise
1918
as Virginia Singleton