Barbara Bedford
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Bedford (born Violet May Rose; July 19, 1903 – October 25, 1981) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945. After high school she set out for Hollywood. She had written many fan letters to actor William S. Hart, and he helped her get a small role in his 1920 movie The Cradle of Courage. While working as an extra that same year on The White Circle, she was noticed by fellow cast member John Gilbert, who recommended her to director Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur cast her alongside Gilbert in Deep Waters. Tourneur also cast her in The Last of the Mohicans, where she was the love interest for Alan Roscoe, whom she later married in real life. In 1925 she appeared opposite Hart in his final film, Tumbleweeds, a key western of the silent period. She starred in the 1926 silent film Old Loves and New and in Mockery with Lon Chaney the following year. When her career declined after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appearance was in 1945.
Known for
Credits
Go West (1940)
as Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited)
Boys Town (1938)
as Nun (uncredited)
Deep Waters (1920)
as Betty West
Brilliant Marriage (1936)
as Brenda
Boom Town (1940)
as Nurse (uncredited)
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)
as Ambrose's Wife (uncredited)
Bitter Sweets (1928)
as Bett Kingston
I Love You Again (1940)
as Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited)
Love Crazy (1941)
as Renny's Secretary (uncredited)
Honky Tonk (1941)
as Salvation Army Woman (uncredited)
The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
as Cora Munro
Presenting Lily Mars (1943)
as Assistant Boardinghouse Manager
Idiot's Delight (1939)
as Nurse #1
Pagan Passions (1924)
as Shirley Dangerfield
Arabian Love (1922)
as Nadine Fortier
Tortilla Flat (1942)
as Nun
The Death Kiss (1932)
as Script Girl
Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
as Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
Born to Dance (1936)
as Hector's Secretary (uncredited)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
as MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited)
Backstage (1927)
as Julia Joyce
Radio Hams (1939)
as Mrs. Crane
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Gracie (uncredited)
Reunion in France (1942)
as Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited)
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
as Customer (uncredited)
On Borrowed Time (1939)
as Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited)
Souls for Sale (1923)
as Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary
Maisie Was a Lady (1941)
as Nurse (Uncredited)
Nazi Agent (1942)
as Woman (uncredited)
Navy Blue and Gold (1937)
as Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
as Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited)
Fast Company (1938)
as MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited)
The Chaser (1938)
as Brandon's Secretary
Sergeant Madden (1939)
as Nurse
Meet the People (1944)
as Ritz Patron (uncredited)
Ring Around the Moon (1936)
as Carol Anderson
Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
as Miss Wilson (uncredited)
It May Happen to You (1937)
as Nurse (uncredited)
All About Hash (1940)
as Alfalfa's Mother
Young Dr. Kildare (1938)
as Nurse (uncredited)
Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
as Secretary (voice) (uncredited)
Ship Ahoy (1942)
as Mrs. Loring
Lost Angel (1943)
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
as Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Cinderella of the Hills (1921)
as Norris Gradley
Stronger Than Desire (1939)
as Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited)
The Spoilers (1923)
as Helen Chester
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
as Neighbor
Big City (1937)
as Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
as Miss Howard (uncredited)
Four Girls in White (1939)
as Nurse Behind Counter
Forced Landing (1935)
as Mrs. Margaret Byrd
American Spoken Here (1940)
as Corset Buyer (uncredited)
We Who Are Young (1940)
as Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited)
The Whipping Boss (1924)
as Grace Woodward
The Public Pays (1936)
as Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
Sky Murder (1940)
as Grand's Maid
Tol'able David (1930)
as Rose Kinemon
That Mothers Might Live (1938)
as Nun Reading Book (uncredited)
Florian (1940)
as Kingston's Secretary
Old Loves and New (1926)
as Marny
Alias Julius Caesar (1922)
as Helen
Gold Rush Maisie (1940)
as Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited)
Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
as Woman at Railroad Station
You, the People (1940)
as Rooming House Diner
The Domineering Male (1940)
as Party Hostess (uncredited)
Born to Sing (1942)
as Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited)
The Talker (1925)
as Barbara Farley
The Lash (1930)
as Lupe
Within the Law (1939)
as Sarah - Gilder's Secretary
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
as Mrs. Munn
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Sadie (uncredited)
Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
as Carew's Secretary (uncredited)
Best Foot Forward (1943)
as Chaperone at Dance
The Big Punch (1921)
as Hope Standish
Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
as Kate
Girls of the Big House (1945)
as Visitors Matron
Inflation (1942)
as Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited)
Percy (1925)
as Imogene Chandler
Man Under Cover (1922)
as Margaret Langdon
Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
as Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited)
The Mad Whirl (1925)
as Margie Taylor
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Nurse Sherwood
Men in Fright (1938)
as Sonny's Mother (uncredited)
Alfalfa's Aunt (1939)
as Martha Switzer
The Forbidden Lover (1923)
as Maria Almada
Marry the Girl (1928)
as Elinor
Three on a Limb (1936)
as Addie
Sons of Steel (1934)
as Miss Peters
Family Troubles (1943)
Actor
Tumbleweeds (1925)
as Molly Lassiter
Another Man's Shoes (1922)
as Mercia Solano
Angel of Mercy (1939)
as Wife (uncredited)
The Sporting Lover (1926)
Actor
Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)
as Secretary (uncredited)
Mockery (1927)
as Countess Tatiana Alexandrova
Song of Revolt (1937)
as Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Easy Money (1936)
as Mrs. Ada Turner
Sucker List (1941)
as Secretary (uncredited)
1-2-3-Go! (1941)
as Nurse
Tomorrow's Youth (1934)
as Miss Booth
Brothers (1931)
as Doris LaRue
Tiny Troubles (1939)
as Alfalfa's mother
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)
as Woman in Movie House (uncredited)
The Keeper of the Bees (1935)
as Nurse
The Miracle of Salt Lake (—)
as Pioneer Woman (Uncredited)
Out of the Silent North (1922)
as Marcette Vallois
The Cradle of Courage (1920)
as Nora
The Lady or the Tiger? (1942)
as Lady Behind the Door
Women in Hiding (1940)
as Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited)
The Acquittal (1923)
as Edith Craig
Wedding Worries (1941)
as Miss Douglas (uncredited)
Pound Foolish (1940)
as Mayor's Secretary
Midnight Phantom (1935)
as Kathleen Ryan
Sunny (1930)
as Margaret Manners
The Haunted House (1928)
as Nancy
Condemned to Live (1935)
as Martha Kristan
The Mine with the Iron Door (1936)
as Secretary
3 Kids and a Queen (1935)
as Nurse
Who's Superstitious? (1943)
as Wife
Miracle Money (1938)
as Miss Grant (uncredited)
That Inferior Feeling (1940)
as Bride (uncredited)
The Love Trader (1930)
as Luane
On Probation (1935)
as Mable Gordon
The Tie That Binds (1923)
as Mary Ellen Gray
A Man's Past (1927)
as Yvonne Fontaine
The Girl from Gay Paree (1927)
as Mary Davis
The Grand Bounce (1937)
as Doctor's Secretary (uncredited)
Main Street on the March! (1941)
as Nurse (uncredited)
What Fools Men (1925)
as Jenny McFarlan
The Cavalier (1928)
as Lucia D'Arquista
The Face of the World (1921)
as Thora
Champion of Lost Causes (1925)
as Beatrice Charles
Desert Vengeance (1931)
as Anne Dixon
Seeing Hands (1943)
as Ben's Mother (uncredited)
The Notorious Lady (1927)
as Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee
The Lady from Nowhere (1931)
as Mollie Carter
Found Alive (1933)
as Edith Roberts
Smoke Bellew (1929)
as Joy Gastrell
How to Read (1938)
as Dental Patient (uncredited)
A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
as Elvira Carney
A Way in the Wilderness (1940)
as Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited)
Alfalfa's Double (1940)
as Alfalfa's Mother
Come Back, Miss Pipps (1941)
as Angry Parent (uncredited)
The Broken Mask (1928)
as Caricia
Bubbling Troubles (1940)
as Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited)
The Power of Love (1922)
as Maria Almeda
Step on It! (1922)
as Lorraine Leighton
Women Who Give (1924)
as Emily Swift
Flag of Mercy (1942)
as Nurse
Romance Land (1923)
as Nan Harvess
Devil’s Dice (1926)
Actor
The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
as Ruth King
The Unfoldment (1922)
as Martha Osborne
Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926)
as Sunshine O'Day
Life of an Actress (1927)
as Nora Dowen
Arabia (1922)
as Janice Terhune
Fashion News (1928)
as Self