Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 19, 1903
Place of Birth:
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
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Barbara Bedford
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Girls of the Big House | Visitors Matron |
| 1944 | Meet the People | Ritz Patron (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Family Troubles | |
| 1943 | Seeing Hands | Ben's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Du Barry Was a Lady | Ambrose's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Who's Superstitious? | Wife |
| 1943 | Lost Angel | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Slightly Dangerous | Customer (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Best Foot Forward | Chaperone at Dance |
| 1943 | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Presenting Lily Mars | Assistant Boardinghouse Manager |
| 1942 | Flag of Mercy | Nurse |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Lady or the Tiger? | Lady Behind the Door |
| 1942 | Born to Sing | Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Inflation | Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Ship Ahoy | Mrs. Loring |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Tortilla Flat | Nun |
| 1941 | Come Back, Miss Pipps | Angry Parent (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Renny's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Maisie Was a Lady | Nurse (Uncredited) |
| 1941 | Honky Tonk | Salvation Army Woman |
| 1941 | Main Street on the March! | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Wedding Worries | Miss Douglas (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Sucker List | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Whistling in the Dark | Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1941 | 1-2-3-Go! | Nurse |
| 1940 | A Way in the Wilderness | Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1940 | That Inferior Feeling | Bride (uncredited) |
| 1940 | I Love You Again | Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Go West | Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Women in Hiding | Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited) |
| 1940 | You, the People | Rooming House Diner |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago | Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Pound Foolish | Mayor's Secretary |
| 1940 | Little Nellie Kelly | Miss Wilson (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Florian | Kingston's Secretary |
| 1940 | Sky Murder | Grand's Maid |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Woman at Railroad Station |
| 1940 | Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Carew's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Gold Rush Maisie | Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited) |
| 1940 | Bubbling Troubles | Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited) |
| 1940 | American Spoken Here | Corset Buyer (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Domineering Male | Party Hostess (uncredited) |
| 1940 | We Who Are Young | Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Alfalfa's Double | Alfalfa's Mother |
| 1940 | All About Hash | Alfalfa's Mother |
| 1939 | Tiny Troubles | Alfalfa's mother |
| 1939 | Four Girls in White | Nurse Behind Counter |
| 1939 | Stronger Than Desire | Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Idiot's Delight | Nurse #1 |
| 1939 | Within the Law | Sarah - Gilder's Secretary |
| 1939 | Broadway Serenade | Gracie (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Calling Dr. Kildare | Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | On Borrowed Time | Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Nurse |
| 1939 | Dancing Co-Ed | Secretary (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | Woman in Movie House (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Radio Hams | Mrs. Crane |
| 1939 | Angel of Mercy | Wife (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Miss Howard (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Alfalfa's Aunt | Martha Switzer |
| 1939 | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | Neighbor |
| 1938 | Young Dr. Kildare | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Kate |
| 1938 | That Mothers Might Live | Nun Reading Book (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Woman Against Woman | Nurse Sherwood |
| 1938 | Miracle Money | Miss Grant (uncredited) |
| 1938 | How to Read | Dental Patient (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The First Hundred Years | Sadie (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Boys Town | Nun (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Chaser | Brandon's Secretary |
| 1938 | Men in Fright | Sonny's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Fast Company | MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1937 | It May Happen to You | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Grand Bounce | Doctor's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Navy Blue and Gold | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Big City | Woman Who Screams (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Song of Revolt | Peasant Woman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Three on a Limb | Addie |
| 1936 | The Public Pays | Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Easy Money | Mrs. Ada Turner |
| 1936 | Brilliant Marriage | Brenda |
| 1936 | The Mine with the Iron Door | Secretary |
| 1936 | Ring Around the Moon | Carol Anderson |
| 1936 | Born to Dance | Hector's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Midnight Phantom | Kathleen Ryan |
| 1935 | The Keeper of the Bees | Nurse |
| 1935 | On Probation | Mable Gordon |
| 1935 | Condemned to Live | Martha Kristan |
| 1935 | 3 Kids and a Queen | Nurse |
| 1935 | Forced Landing | Mrs. Margaret Byrd |
| 1935 | Circumstantial Evidence | Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited) |
| 1934 | A Girl of the Limberlost | Elvira Carney |
| 1934 | Sons of Steel | Miss Peters |
| 1934 | Tomorrow's Youth | Miss Booth |
| 1933 | Found Alive | Edith Roberts |
| 1932 | The Death Kiss | Script Girl |
| 1931 | The Lady from Nowhere | Mollie Carter |
| 1931 | Desert Vengeance | Anne Dixon |
| 1931 | Brothers | Doris LaRue |
| 1930 | The Lash | Lupe |
| 1930 | Tol'able David | Rose Kinemon |
| 1930 | Sunny | Margaret Manners |
| 1930 | The Love Trader | Luane |
| 1929 | Smoke Bellew | Joy Gastrell |
| 1928 | The Haunted House | Nancy |
| 1928 | Fashion News | Self |
| 1928 | The Port of Missing Girls | Ruth King |
| 1928 | The Broken Mask | Caricia |
| 1928 | The Cavalier | Lucia D'Arquista |
| 1927 | Mockery | Countess Tatiana Alexandrova |
| 1927 | Life of an Actress | Nora Dowen |
| 1927 | The Girl from Gay Paree | Mary Davis |
| 1927 | A Man's Past | Yvonne Fontaine |
| 1927 | The Notorious Lady | Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee |
| 1927 | Backstage | Julia Joyce |
| 1926 | Sunshine of Paradise Alley | Sunshine O'Day |
| 1926 | The Sporting Lover | |
| 1926 | Old Loves and New | Marny |
| 1925 | Percy | Imogene Chandler |
| 1925 | The Mad Whirl | Margie Taylor |
| 1925 | Tumbleweeds | Molly Lassiter |
| 1925 | What Fools Men | Jenny McFarlan |
| 1925 | The Talker | Barbara Farley |
| 1924 | Women Who Give | Emily Swift |
| 1924 | The Whipping Boss | Grace Woodward |
| 1923 | Romance Land | Nan Harvess |
| 1923 | The Tie That Binds | Mary Ellen Gray |
| 1923 | Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary |
| 1923 | The Acquittal | Edith Craig |
| 1923 | The Spoilers | Helen Chester |
| 1923 | The Forbidden Lover | Maria Almada |
| 1922 | Arabia | Janice Terhune |
| 1922 | Step on It! | Lorraine Leighton |
| 1922 | The Power of Love | Maria Almeda |
| 1922 | Another Man's Shoes | Mercia Solano |
| 1922 | The Unfoldment | Martha Osborne |
| 1921 | Cinderella of the Hills | Norris Gradley |
| 1921 | The Face of the World | Thora |
| 1921 | The Big Punch | Hope Standish |
| 1920 | The Cradle of Courage | Nora |
| 1920 | The Last of the Mohicans | Cora Munro |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
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