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.
Movie Appearances
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
Borrowed Plumage
as Nora
1917
Show Folks
as Kitty Mayo
1928
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
Maid o' the Storm
as Ariel
1918
The White Lie
as Dorothy Kingsley
1918
The Making of Bobby Burnit
as Agnes Elliston
1914
Secrets
as Susan Carlton
1933
The Rose of the Rancho
as Juanita Castro
1914
Josselyn's Wife
as Ellen Latimer Josselyn
1919
Plain Jane
as Jane, 'The Orphint'
1916