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