Name
Bessie Barriscale
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1884-09-30
Deathday
1965-06-30 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known For
- 1920 The Broken Gate as Aurora Lane
- 1919 The Woman Michael Married as Mira Sacky
- 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 Borrowed Plumage as Nora
- 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 Maid o' the Storm as Ariel
- 1918 The White Lie as Dorothy Kingsley
- 1914 The Making of Bobby Burnit as Agnes Elliston
- 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 The Heart of Rachael as Rachael
- 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 Hearts Asleep as Nancy
- 1916 Bullets and Brown Eyes as Countess Olga
- 1920 The Luck of Geraldine Laird as Geraldine Laird
- 1919 All of a Sudden Norma as Norma Brisbane
- 1918 Two-Gun Betty as Betty Craig
- 1916 The Green Swamp as Margery Allison
- 1921 The Breaking Point as Ruth Marshall
- 1919 Beckoning Roads as Marquita Shay
- 1919 Her Purchase Price as Sheka
- 1920 The Notorious Mrs. Sands as Mary Ware
- 1933 Above the Clouds as Mother
- 1917 Wooden Shoes as Pampy
- 1916 A Corner in Colleens as Shamrock
- 1920 A Woman Who Understood as Madge Graham
- 1919 A Trick of Fate as Anna Gerard / Mary Lee
