Acting

Ethel Wales

Born 1878-04-04

Passaic, New Jersey, USA

Department: Acting

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.

1923

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (104 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Tarnished	Ida Baker	Movie	1950
Blonde Alibi	Landlady (Uncredited)	Movie	1946
Lumberjack	Abbey Peters	Movie	1944
Border Vigilantes	Aunt Jenifer	Movie	1941
Young Bill Hickok	Mrs. Stout	Movie	1940
Wyoming	Mrs. Bronson	Movie	1940
Hidden Gold	Matilda Purdy	Movie	1940
Dark Command	Townswoman	Movie	1940
Days of Jesse James	Mrs. Martha Samuels	Movie	1939
In Old Caliente	Aunt Felicia Vargas	Movie	1939
Frontier Pony Express	Mrs. Murphy	Movie	1939
Sudden Money	Miss Perkins	Movie	1939
Let Us Live	Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)	Movie	1939
The Cowboy and the Lady	Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)	Movie	1938
We Who Are About to Die	Travel Bureau Customer (uncredited)	Movie	1937
Women Are Trouble	Hatchet-Faced Woman	Movie	1936
Another Face	Aunt Hattie (uncredited)	Movie	1935
Bar 20 Rides Again	Clary Peters	Movie	1935
The Merry Frinks	United Charities Worker	Movie	1934
The Crime Doctor	Miss Farnum, Gifford's Secretary (uncredited)	Movie	1934
The Big Bluff	Self / Appearance	Movie	1933
Female	Alison's Secretary (Uncredited)	Movie	1933
The Fighting Parson	Betsy Larkin	Movie	1933
The Important Witness	Bride	Movie	1933
The Eleventh Commandment	Mabel Moore	Movie	1933
The Racing Strain	Aunt Judy	Movie	1932
Tangled Destinies	Prudence Daggott	Movie	1932
Klondike	Sadie Jones	Movie	1932
Love Me Tonight	Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)	Movie	1932
The Thirteenth Guest	Jane Thornton	Movie	1932
A Man's Land	Aunt Flossie Doolittle	Movie	1932
Love in High Gear	Arabella Heath	Movie	1932
The Trial of Vivienne Ware	Gossip (uncredited)	Movie	1932
Never the Twins Shall Meet	Mrs. Guppy	Movie	1932
Maker of Men	Aunt Martha	Movie	1931
Honeymoon Lane	Mrs. Gotrocks	Movie	1931
Gold Dust Gertie	Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)	Movie	1931
Subway Express	Mrs. Cotton	Movie	1931
The Flood	Aunt Constance	Movie	1931
The Criminal Code	Katie Ryan	Movie	1931
Tom Sawyer	Mrs. Harper	Movie	1930
Under Montana Skies	Martha Jenkins	Movie	1930
Love Among the Millionaires	Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)	Movie	1930
The Dude Wrangler	Mattie	Movie	1930
Loose Ankles	Aunt Katherine Harper	Movie	1930
The Saturday Night Kid	Lily Woodruff	Movie	1929
The Girl in the Show	Mrs. Truxton	Movie	1929
The Donovan Affair	Mrs. Lindsey	Movie	1929
Blue Skies	Matron (episode 1)	Movie	1929
Furnace Trouble	Self / Appearance	Movie	1929
The Doctor's Secret	Mrs. Redding	Movie	1929
Taxi 13	Mrs. Mactavish	Movie	1928
The Masks of the Devil	Virginia's Aunt	Movie	1928
Craig's Wife	Eliza	Movie	1928
Tenth Avenue	Ma Mason	Movie	1928
The Perfect Crime	Mrs. Frisbie	Movie	1928
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath	Mrs. Spivers	Movie	1928
On to Reno	Mrs. Holmes	Movie	1928
Almost Human	Katie	Movie	1927
My Friend from India	Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith	Movie	1927
The Wreck of the Hesperus	Deborah Slocum	Movie	1927
The Girl in the Pullman	Mrs. Jones	Movie	1927
The Country Doctor	Redora Bump	Movie	1927
The Satin Woman	'Countess' Debris	Movie	1927
Cradle Snatchers	Ethel Drake	Movie	1927
Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl	Mrs. Sloan	Movie	1926
Ladies at Play	Aunt Sarah	Movie	1926
Take It from Me	Miss Abbott	Movie	1926
Wandering Footsteps	Matilda	Movie	1926
Made for Love	Lady Diana Trent	Movie	1926
The Wedding Song	Auntie	Movie	1925
Don't	Mrs. Moffat	Movie	1925
When Husbands Flirt	Mrs. Wilbur Belcher	Movie	1925
The Overland Limited	Mrs. Barton	Movie	1925
Shattered Lives	Elizabeth Trent	Movie	1925
Beggar on Horseback	Mrs. Cady	Movie	1925
Go Straight!	Mamie	Movie	1925
The Monster	Mrs. Watson	Movie	1925
The Rag Man	Mrs. Bernard	Movie	1925
Let Women Alone	Ma Benham	Movie	1925
Merton of the Movies	Mrs. Montague	Movie	1924
Lovers' Lane	Aunt Melissy	Movie	1924
Revelation	Madame Hofer	Movie	1924
Which Shall It Be?	Mrs. Moore	Movie	1924
The Bedroom Window	Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)	Movie	1924
Icebound	Ella Jordan	Movie	1924
The White Sin	Aunt Cynthia	Movie	1924
Loving Lies	Penny Wise	Movie	1924
The Grail	Self / Appearance	Movie	1923
The Marriage Maker	Mrs. Hope-Clarke	Movie	1923
Stepping Fast	Miss Higgins	Movie	1923
The Covered Wagon	Mrs. Wingate	Movie	1923
The Fog	Mrs. Forge	Movie	1923
The Old Homestead	Aunt Matilda	Movie	1922
Manslaughter	Prisoner	Movie	1922
The Bonded Woman	Lucita	Movie	1922
Nice People	Mrs. Heyfer	Movie	1922
Our Leading Citizen	Eudora Mawdle	Movie	1922
Is Matrimony a Failure?	Mrs. Skinner	Movie	1922
Saturday Night	Party Guest	Movie	1922
Bobbed Hair	Mrs. Lamont	Movie	1922
Miss Lulu Bett	Grandma Bett	Movie	1921
After the Show	Landlady	Movie	1921
Midsummer Madness	Mrs. Hicks	Movie	1921