Ethel Wales
Date of birth: 1878-04-04
Place of birth: Passaic, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
From Wikipedia Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 - February 15, 1952) was an American actress, who appeared in 130 films during her 30-year career. She was the first wife of Wellington E. Wales (1886–1954), Mary Pickford's business manager during the height of her popularity. The couple had one son, Wellington Charles Wales (1918–1966), an editorial writer for the New York Times who died of a heart attack shortly after his 19 year-old son Samuel was killed in a train mishap. Her second husband was actor Hal Taliaferro.
Movie Credits
Manslaughter
1922-09-24
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto
The Cowboy and the Lady
1938-11-17
Mary Smith decides after a lifetime of being a shut-in to do something wild while her father is out
Bobbed Hair
1922-01-01
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
Subway Express
1931-05-01
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a
The Doctor's Secret
1929-01-26
Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man
The Donovan Affair
1929-04-11
Inspector Killian tries to solve a murder case with his assistant Carney.
The Dude Wrangler
1930-07-01
In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranc
Stepping Fast
1923-05-13
Mix is Grant Malvern, a rancher who befriends scientist Quentin Durant (Tom S. Guise) after rescuing
The Satin Woman
1927-07-24
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Do
A Man's Land
1932-06-10
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and h
The Criminal Code
1931-01-03
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecute
The Racing Strain
1932-12-16
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl
The Perfect Crime
1928-08-04
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.
Let Women Alone
1925-01-04
A woman is led to believe her scheming husband is dead in this melodrama taken from the story by Vio
The Crime Doctor
1934-03-14
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl
1926-12-19
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl w
Love Me Tonight
1932-08-18
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess livi
The Old Homestead
1922-10-08
Silent drama film based upon the play of the same name by Denman Thompson.
The Wedding Song
1925-11-29
A beautiful con artist marries Hayes Hallan, the owner of a pearl-rich island. No sooner has the cou
Go Straight!
1925-04-27
Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to Hollywoo
Loving Lies
1924-01-22
A tug boat skipper never informs his nervous wife when he has a dangerous job to do. This leads to c
Revelation
1924-06-23
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful
Furnace Trouble
1929-02-04
Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.
Klondike
1932-08-29
Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient
The Saturday Night Kid
1929-10-25
Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store cl
The Bedroom Window
1924-06-08
William C. DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille's talented director brother, teamed with his favorite collabora
My Friend from India
1927-12-18
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith
Honeymoon Lane
1931-07-25
Based on Dowling's 1925 stage vehicle of the same name, the story is set in motion when the king of
Cradle Snatchers
1927-05-28
To cure their flirtatious husbands of consorting with flappers, three wives-- Susan Martin, Ethel Dr
The Big Bluff
1933-12-02
In order to show up a rival, a snobbish woman throws a party and hires an actor to pretend to be fro
The Eleventh Commandment
1933-03-25
A wealthy recluse dies in her New York mansion, leaving an estate worth $50 million. Shortly after,
The Fighting Parson
1933-08-01
A cowboy on the run from a posse finds the clothes and ID of a preacher on the trail. He assumes the
Take It from Me
1926-10-10
Tom Eggett, with the help of his pals, Dick and Van, loses the last cent of his inheritance, is evic
Don't
1925-11-15
Don't is a 1926 silent Comedy
Love in High Gear
1932-05-01
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the s
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
1928-03-31
Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's pack
The Masks of the Devil
1928-11-17
Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia,
The Important Witness
1933-07-15
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she
Nice People
1922-07-12
Teddy Gloucester, one of the group of jazz age "nice people," is caught in a farmhouse during a stor
Midsummer Madness
1921-01-23
Because Bob Meredith (Jack Holt) spends all his time working, his wife Margaret (Lois Wilson) feels
Icebound
1924-03-02
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. H
Craig's Wife
1928-09-16
Harriet Craig, whose obsession with material possessions and immaculate neatness results in misery f
Tenth Avenue
1928-08-06
Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also ru
Loose Ankles
1930-02-02
A grandmother's will leaves her fortune to a few, mostly to her great-niece Ann. Ann will only recei
The Country Doctor
1927-08-22
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happin
Beggar on Horseback
1925-06-05
Neil McRae, an impoverished composer, loves Cynthia Mason, but, fearing poverty, proposes to wealthy
The Wreck of the Hesperus
1927-10-31
Captain Slocum of the Hesperus arrives on shore in a New England village to find that the girl he lo
Almost Human
1927-12-26
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and
Made for Love
1926-01-26
A young woman visits her boyfriend, an archaeologist, at the site in Egypt where he is digging up an
Under Montana Skies
1930-09-09
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During th
Love Among the Millionaires
1930-07-05
A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich
The Rag Man
1925-02-16
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fi
We Who Are About to Die
1937-01-08
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sente
Gold Dust Gertie
1931-06-27
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
The Girl in the Show
1929-08-30
In this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when th
The Covered Wagon
1923-03-15
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon.
Women Are Trouble
1936-07-31
A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Let Us Live
1939-03-29
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentence
Frontier Pony Express
1939-04-11
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St.
In Old Caliente
1939-06-19
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We
Saturday Night
1922-01-29
Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry t
Days of Jesse James
1939-12-20
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank ro
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935-12-06
Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to
Which Shall It Be?
1924-06-15
Taxi 13
1928-11-18
A crime caper featuring the 'first family of Hollywood' - the Watsons.
Maker of Men
1931-08-03
Bob plays football badly so his father Coach Dudley, his girlfriend Dorothy and his school reject hi
Wyoming
1940-09-13
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nic
Young Bill Hickok
1940-10-21
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are tryi
Hidden Gold
1940-06-07
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking
Dark Command
1940-04-15
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place,
Lumberjack
1944-04-28
Julie's husband has been murdered and land agents want her to sign away her property rights. Hoppy w
Tangled Destinies
1932-10-17
An airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert. The passengers and crew take refuge in a
Border Vigilantes
1941-04-18
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante commit
Tom Sawyer
1930-12-19
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pal
Sudden Money
1939-03-31
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney a
Female
1933-11-11
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of bu
The Marriage Maker
1923-09-30
A matchmaker sets out to have a rich woman marry the not-so-rich boy she loves, and tries to persuad
Ladies at Play
1926-11-15
Ann Martin will inherit six-million dollars if she marries a man her two spinster-aunts approve of,
Miss Lulu Bett
1921-11-01
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, w
The Girl in the Pullman
1927-10-31
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turni
The White Sin
1924-02-24
Wealthy playboy Grant Van Gore means to have his way with his beautiful maid, the innocent Hattie Lo
The Thirteenth Guest
1932-08-09
Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining gu
Blue Skies
1929-03-16
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances
Blonde Alibi
1946-03-01
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic
On to Reno
1928-01-01
This is a farce, concerning itself with a young husband and a wife who are becoming stranged over mo
Wandering Footsteps
1926-06-14
Hal Whitney, an irresponsible young millionaire, befriends Timothy Payne, a wise old college profess
The Merry Frinks
1934-05-26
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Another Face
1935-12-20
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new
The Overland Limited
1925-07-14
David Barton (Malcolm McGregor) is a train engineer with big ideas who falls in love with beautiful
The Bonded Woman
1922-08-21
Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers.
Merton of the Movies
1924-11-03
A wannabe film star journeys to Hollywood, but soon finds his dreams do not pan out. This film is lo
The Fog
1923-01-18
Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a gir
Tarnished
1950-02-28
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a
After the Show
1921-10-30
After the Show was adapted from Rita Weiman's story "The Stage Door." Lila Lee plays Eileen, a starr
The Monster
1925-03-16
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place
Lovers' Lane
1924-08-10
Silent film comedy drama...
Our Leading Citizen
1922-06-14
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
The Grail
1923-10-14
Texas Ranger Chic Shelby is sent to capture James Trammel and his son, John--two outlaws hiding in t
Is Matrimony a Failure?
1922-04-16
Mr. and Mrs. Amos Saxby's silver wedding anniversary is interrupted by the surprise elopement of the