Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1884-09-30
Deathday
1965-06-30
Place of Birth
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
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.
Known For
Secrets
as Susan Carlton
A Woman Who Understood
as Madge Graham
Borrowed Plumage
as Nora
Show Folks
as Kitty Mayo
The Rose of the Rancho
as Juanita Castro
Above the Clouds
as Mother
The Broken Gate
as Aurora Lane
The Woman Michael Married
as Mira Sacky
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
as Dr. Kitty Kelly
The Cup of Life
as Helen Fiske