Bessie Barriscale
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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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5146 |
| Birthday | 1884-09-30 |
| Place of Birth | Hoboken, New Jersey, USA |
| Also Known As |
1920
The Broken Gate
8/1
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her...
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The Broken Gate
1919
The Woman Michael Married
9/1
Mira Sacky (Bessie Barriscale) will inherit a fortune if she is able to come up with ten thousand dollars for lawyers' fees. Since she has no money of...
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The Woman Michael Married
1919
Kitty Kelly, M.D.
8/1
Kitty Kelly (Bessie Barriscale) has just graduated from medical school and she decides to set up business in a Western mining camp. Because she is pre...
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Kitty Kelly, M.D.
1915
The Cup of Life
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Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechan...
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The Cup of Life
1915
The Reward
0/0
A poor young boy falls for a chorus girl after he finds out that she is not like the "loose women" she works with. He determines to get her to leave t...
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The Reward
1916
Home
10/1
Bessie Wheaton returns from Europe to find her nouveau riche family has adopted and magnified the worst characteristics of the upper class. Her father...
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Home
1920
Life's Twist
9/1
Socially prominent but penniless Stephen De Koven marries Muriel Chester, a woman whose loveliness he admires but whose money he really desires. Disco...
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Life's Twist
1917
Borrowed Plumage
7/2
The Earl of Selkirk and his family learn of the impending arrival of American pirate John Paul Jones, they flee their castle, leaving behind Nora, the...
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Borrowed Plumage
1928
Show Folks
7/2
Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody bu...
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Show Folks
1917
The Hater of Men
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Convinced that her impending marriage to fellow reporter Billy Williams will result in a loss of her freedom, Janice breaks her engagement and enters...
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The Hater of Men
1918
Rose o' Paradise
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Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up...
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Rose o' Paradise
1918
Madam Who
0/0
During the Civil War, Jeanne Beaufort becomes a secret service agent for the South....
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Madam Who
1918
Patriotism
10/1
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Patriotism
1918
Maid o' the Storm
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Maid o' the Storm
1918
The White Lie
9/1
Gordon Kingsley lives happily with his wife Dorothy and little daughter Mary Jane. On visiting the home of San Francisco architect Frank Mason, he is...
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The White Lie
1914
The Making of Bobby Burnit
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The Making of Bobby Burnit
1933
Secrets
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In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortu...
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Secrets
1914
The Rose of the Rancho
4/1
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off...
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The Rose of the Rancho
1916
Plain Jane
0/0
Young John Adams is working his way through college and lives in a boarding house where Jane, a hardworking and unassuming maid, falls deeply in love...
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Plain Jane
1919
Josselyn's Wife
7/1
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an artist...
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Josselyn's Wife
1918
The Heart of Rachael
8/1
Rachael (Bessie Barriscale) marries Clarence Breckenridge (Hershel Mayall) a widower much older than herself. Although she tries to be a good wife, he...
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The Heart of Rachael
1915
The Devil
0/0
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The Devil
1916
Honor's Altar
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Honor's Altar
1914
Ready Money
0/0
Edward Abeles and Theodore Roberts as a couple of prospectors who get involved with greedy city types on a business trip to New York.
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Ready Money
1934
Beloved
9/1
Story about four generations in a family of musicians.
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Beloved
1919
Hearts Asleep
7/1
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Hearts Asleep
1916
Bullets and Brown Eyes
0/0
Countess Olga and Prince Carl, although from two European countries that have been longtime enemies, are madly in love with each other. Olga's brother...
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Bullets and Brown Eyes
1920
The Luck of Geraldine Laird
7/1
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The Luck of Geraldine Laird
1919
All of a Sudden Norma
7/1
Norma Brisbane has a taste for the finer things in life, but learns after her father's suicide that she is penniless. Resolved to recover her fortune...
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All of a Sudden Norma
1918
Two-Gun Betty
8/1
Ranch owner Jack Kennedy is in need of some cowhands. Young Betty Craig, a friend of Jack's sister Florence, bets her that she can disguise herself as...
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Two-Gun Betty
1916
The Green Swamp
0/0
Most of the patients of Dr. Ward Allison are women, and his wife Margery is becoming increasingly jealous of all the time he spends with them. One day...
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The Green Swamp
1921
The Breaking Point
9/1
Ruth Marshall's dire financial situation forces her to marry Richard Janeway, a wealthy but drunken playboy who cheats on her. Not only that, but on t...
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The Breaking Point
1919
Beckoning Roads
7/1
When Marquita Shay, the adopted daughter of Canadian farmer John Grayson, reaches womanhood, Grayson enrolls her in a St. Louis boarding school where...
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Beckoning Roads
1919
Her Purchase Price
9/1
Hamid-Ali, an Arab chieftain and bandit, captures an English baby during a raid on a caravan and, naming her Sheka, puts her in a harem to be prepared...
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Her Purchase Price
1920
The Notorious Mrs. Sands
8/1
Member of a socially prominent but impoverished family, Mary Ware, is in love with the equally poor Ronald Cliffe, but Mary's mother convinces her to...
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The Notorious Mrs. Sands
1933
Above the Clouds
6.5/2
Robert Armstrong stars as Scoop Adams, an ace newsreel cameraman whose love affair with the bottle all but destroys him professionally. Scoop manages...
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Above the Clouds
1917
Wooden Shoes
0/0
Pampy lives in a quaint little Dutch village, where she supports her invalid father by selling flowers to tourists. Pampy is so beautiful that she pro...
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Wooden Shoes
1916
A Corner in Colleens
10/1
When a distant Irish relative dies, a young American travels to Ireland to obtain his inheritance. He gets far more than he bargained for when a beaut...
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A Corner in Colleens
1920
A Woman Who Understood
3/2
Sculptress Madge Graham sacrifices her art career to nurture violinist Robert Knight whom she marries and with whom she has two children.
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A Woman Who Understood
1919
A Trick of Fate
8/1
After her father dies and a banker, to whom he owed $5,000, insults the family's honor, dancing instructor Mary Lee, the last of a long line of Southe...
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