Ethel Clayton
Age: N/A | From: Champaign, Illinois, USA
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Champaign, Illinois, USA
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Movie Involvements: 37
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Most Famous Work
Make Way for Tomorrow
(1937) Customer (uncredited)
If I Were King
(1938) Old Woman
Wells Fargo
(1937) Pioneer Woman
Secrets
(1933) Audrey Carlton
The Hidden Scar
(1916) Janet Hall
Men with Wings
(1938) Woman
Hold 'Em Navy
(1937) Girl
Thrill of Youth
(1932) Alice FenwickActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Woman (uncredited) | |
| Mardi Gras Woman | ||
| Woman (uncredited) | ||
| 1942 | Ball Guest (uncredited) | |
| Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited) | ||
| 1941 | (uncredited) | |
| Nurse | ||
| 1940 | Minor Role | |
| 1939 | N/A | |
| Mrs. Wallace | ||
| Woman | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1938 | Bit Part (uncredited) | |
| Bit Part | ||
| Old Woman | ||
| Woman | ||
| Undetermined Role | ||
| 1937 | Pioneer Woman | |
| Girl | ||
| N/A | ||
| Seamtress (uncredited) | ||
| Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited) | ||
| Customer (uncredited) | ||
| Tourist (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Blair | ||
| 1936 | N/A | |
| Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited) | ||
| 1933 | Star | |
| Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited) | ||
| Audrey Carlton | ||
| 1932 | Mrs. Bowen | |
| Yvonne | ||
| Alice Fenwick | ||
| 1930 | N/A | |
| 1929 | Mrs. Payne | |
| 1927 | Mrs. O'Brien | |
| 1926 | Mrs. Stoughton | |
| Cissy Cason | ||
| The Hunter's Wife | ||
| 1925 | Margaret Davis | |
| 1922 | Ruth Townley | |
| N/A | ||
| Margaret Harvey | ||
| Mildred Carr | ||
| 1921 | Avis Langley | |
| Katherine Van Riper | ||
| Helen Carston | ||
| 1920 | Roseanne Ozanne | |
| Milly West | ||
| Gail Ellis | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1919 | Carey Brent | |
| 1918 | N/A | |
| Diana Lester | ||
| 1917 | Self - Cameo Appearance | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Polly Pollard | ||
| Violet Galloway | ||
| Grace Miller | ||
| Vesta Wheatley | ||
| 1916 | Georgia Gwynne, as an adult | |
| Janet Hall | ||
| Doris Baker | ||
| Marion Livingston | ||
| Helen Barton | ||
| 1915 | Ruth Jordan | |
| 1914 | Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green | |
| N/A | ||
| 1913 | Dora Sims | |
| 1912 | Ethel Walters | |
| 1910 | Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter | |
| Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
