Ethel Wales

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.

Known For

Prisoner

Manslaughter

Dinner Party Guest (uncredited)

The Cowboy and the Lady

Mrs. Lamont

Bobbed Hair

Mrs. Cotton

Subway Express

Mrs. Redding

The Doctor's Secret

Mrs. Lindsey

The Donovan Affair

Mattie

The Dude Wrangler

Miss Higgins

Stepping Fast

'Countess' Debris

The Satin Woman

Aunt Flossie Doolittle

A Man's Land

Katie Ryan

The Criminal Code

Aunt Judy

The Racing Strain

Mrs. Frisbie

The Perfect Crime

Ma Benham

Let Women Alone

Miss Farnum, Gifford's Secretary (uncredited)

The Crime Doctor

Mrs. Sloan

Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl

Madame Dutoit - Dressmaker (uncredited)

Love Me Tonight

Aunt Matilda

The Old Homestead

Auntie

The Wedding Song

Mamie

Go Straight!

Penny Wise

Loving Lies

Madame Hofer

Revelation

Furnace Trouble

Sadie Jones

Klondike

Lily Woodruff

The Saturday Night Kid

Matild Jones (aka Rufus Rome)

The Bedroom Window

Arabella Mott / Bedelia Smith

My Friend from India

Mrs. Gotrocks

Honeymoon Lane

Ethel Drake

Cradle Snatchers

The Big Bluff

Mabel Moore

The Eleventh Commandment

Betsy Larkin

The Fighting Parson

Miss Abbott

Take It from Me

Mrs. Moffat

Don't

Arabella Heath

Love in High Gear

Mrs. Spivers

Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath

Virginia's Aunt

The Masks of the Devil

Bride

The Important Witness

Mrs. Heyfer

Nice People

Mrs. Hicks

Midsummer Madness

Ella Jordan

Icebound

Eliza

Craig's Wife

Ma Mason

Tenth Avenue

Aunt Katherine Harper

Loose Ankles

Redora Bump

The Country Doctor

Mrs. Cady

Beggar on Horseback

Deborah Slocum

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Katie

Almost Human

Lady Diana Trent

Made for Love

Martha Jenkins

Under Montana Skies

Disapproving Dowager (uncredited)

Love Among the Millionaires

Mrs. Bernard

The Rag Man

Travel Bureau Customer (uncredited)

We Who Are About to Die

Arnold's Secretary (uncredited)

Gold Dust Gertie

Mrs. Truxton

The Girl in the Show

Mrs. Wingate

The Covered Wagon

Hatchet-Faced Woman

Women Are Trouble

Theatre Scrubwoman - Ella (uncredited)

Let Us Live

Mrs. Murphy

Frontier Pony Express

Aunt Felicia Vargas

In Old Caliente

Party Guest

Saturday Night

Mrs. Martha Samuels

Days of Jesse James

Clary Peters

Bar 20 Rides Again

Which Shall It Be?

Mrs. Mactavish

Taxi 13

Aunt Martha

Maker of Men

Mrs. Bronson

Wyoming

Mrs. Stout

Young Bill Hickok

Matilda Purdy

Hidden Gold

Townswoman

Dark Command

Abbey Peters

Lumberjack

Prudence Daggott

Tangled Destinies

Aunt Jenifer

Border Vigilantes

Mrs. Harper

Tom Sawyer

Miss Perkins

Sudden Money

Alison's Secretary (Uncredited)

Female

Mrs. Hope-Clarke

The Marriage Maker

Aunt Sarah

Ladies at Play

Grandma Bett

Miss Lulu Bett

Mrs. Jones

The Girl in the Pullman

Aunt Cynthia

The White Sin

Jane Thornton

The Thirteenth Guest

Matron (episode 1)

Blue Skies

Landlady (Uncredited)

Blonde Alibi

Mrs. Holmes

On to Reno

Matilda

Wandering Footsteps

United Charities Worker

The Merry Frinks

Aunt Hattie (uncredited)

Another Face

Mrs. Barton

The Overland Limited

Lucita

The Bonded Woman

Mrs. Montague

Merton of the Movies

Mrs. Forge

The Fog

Ida Baker

Tarnished

Landlady

After the Show

Mrs. Watson

The Monster

Aunt Melissy

Lovers' Lane

Eudora Mawdle

Our Leading Citizen

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

97

Gender

Female

Birthday

1878-04-04

Place of Birth

Passaic, New Jersey, USA

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