Bessie Barriscale
Actor
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
A Woman Who Understood
as Madge Graham 1920
Borrowed Plumage
as Nora 1917
Show Folks
as Kitty Mayo 1928
The Rose of the Rancho
as Juanita Castro 1914
Above the Clouds
as Mother 1933
The Broken Gate
as Aurora Lane 1920
The Woman Michael Married
as Mira Sacky 1919
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
as Dr. Kitty Kelly 1919
The Cup of Life
as Helen Fiske 1915
The Reward
as Jane Wallace 1915
Home
as Bessie Wheaton 1916
Life's Twist
as Muriel Chester / Tina Pierce 1920
The Hater of Men
as Janice Salsbury 1917
Madam Who
as Jeanne Beaufort 1918
Rose o' Paradise
as Virginia Singleton 1918
Patriotism
as Robin Cameron 1918