Bessie Barriscale
Date of birth: 1884-09-30
Place of birth: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
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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 Credits
The Broken Gate
1920-12-01
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an
The Woman Michael Married
1919-07-27
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand do
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
1919-10-12
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up bus
The Cup of Life
1915-04-26
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Rut
The Reward
1915-06-24
A poor young boy falls for a chorus girl after he finds out that she is not like the "loose women" s
Home
1916-08-27
Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the wo
Life's Twist
1920-08-11
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness h
Borrowed Plumage
1917-07-29
The Earl of Selkirk and his family learn of the impending arrival of American pirate John Paul Jones
Show Folks
1928-10-20
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault o
The Hater of Men
1917-07-01
Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her
Madam Who
1918-01-01
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
Rose o' Paradise
1918-05-13
Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recover
Patriotism
1918-06-10
During World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for c
Maid o' the Storm
1918-07-27
Scottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a s
The White Lie
1918-09-02
Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the h
The Making of Bobby Burnit
1914-09-17
Bobby Burnit, a naïve young man, inherits $300,000 from his father, a hard-working entrepreneur. Bec
Secrets
1933-03-16
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with cle
The Rose of the Rancho
1914-11-15
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Cast
Josselyn's Wife
1919-05-05
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have sp
Plain Jane
1916-10-08
Young John Adams is working his way through college and lives in a boarding house where Jane, a hard
The Heart of Rachael
1918-10-04
Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than
The Devil
1915-04-01
The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance pa
Honor's Altar
1916-02-14
After building a financial empire, Frederick Mallery feels chained to his wife Winnie, who stood by
Ready Money
1914-11-05
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city type
Beloved
1934-01-22
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
Hearts Asleep
1919-03-31
Bullets and Brown Eyes
1916-03-12
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies,
The Luck of Geraldine Laird
1920-02-01
All of a Sudden Norma
1919-01-05
Norma Brisbane has a taste for the finer things in life, but learns after her father's suicide that
Two-Gun Betty
1918-12-16
Ranch owner Jack Kennedy is in need of some cowhands. Young Betty Craig, a friend of Jack's sister F
The Green Swamp
1916-01-30
Most of the patients of Dr. Ward Allison are women, and his wife Margery is becoming increasingly je
The Breaking Point
1921-02-14
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken
Beckoning Roads
1919-12-21
When Marquita Shay, the adopted daughter of Canadian farmer John Grayson, reaches womanhood, Grayson
Her Purchase Price
1919-09-01
Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, na
The Notorious Mrs. Sands
1920-05-09
Member of a socially prominent but impoverished family, Mary Ware, is in love with the equally poor
Above the Clouds
1933-12-13
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle a
Wooden Shoes
1917-08-20
Pampy lives in a quaint little Dutch village, where she supports her invalid father by selling flowe
A Corner in Colleens
1916-11-05
When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. H
A Woman Who Understood
1920-03-14
Sculptress Madge Graham sacrifices her art career to nurture violinist Robert Knight whom she marrie
A Trick of Fate
1919-02-24
After her father dies and a banker, to whom he owed $5,000, insults the family's honor, dancing inst