Carrie Clark Ward (January 9, 1862 – February 6, 1926) was an American actress of the
silent era
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...
.
Biography
Ward was born in
Virginia City, Nevada
Virginia City is a census-designated place (CDP) that is the county seat of Storey County, Nevada, United States, and the largest community in the county. The city is a part of the Reno, Nevada, Reno–Sparks, Nevada, Sparks Reno, NV Metropolitan ...
,
in 1862.
In 1885 Clark acted in a company at the San Francisco Bush Street Theatre.
Ward appeared in more than 60 films from 1911 to 1925. Ward appeared in numerous silent films in the company of many stars, including her comic turn in the Rudolph Valentino-Clarence Brown directed classic ''
The Eagle'' 1925.
Ward was married to J. Sedley Browne, the first husband of
Henrietta Crosman
Henrietta Foster Crosman (September 2, 1861 – October 31, 1944) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
Crosman was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, Wheeling, Virginia, to George Crosman Jr. a Civil War Major, and Mary B. Wick, ...
. In 1879, she married comedian and actor James M. Ward.
Ward died on February 6, 1926,
in
Hollywood, California
Hollywood, sometimes informally called Tinseltown, is a List of districts and neighborhoods in Los Angeles, neighborhood and district in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles County, California, within the city of Los Angeles. ...
.
Partial filmography
* ''
How Spriggins Took Lodgers
''How Spriggins Took Lodgers'' is a 1911 silent film short produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. It starred J. Sedley Brown, Marc McDermott and Miriam Nesbitt. Released through the General Film Company.
Cast
*J. Sedley Brown - Spriggins ...
'' (1911)
* ''
The Bank'' (1915)
* ''
The Conqueror'' (1917)
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One Touch of Sin'' (1917)
* ''
Under the Yoke'' (1918)
* ''
Cheating the Public'' (1918)
* ''
The Siren's Song'' (1919)
* ''
Daddy-Long-Legs'' (1919)
* ''
Why Smith Left Home'' (1919)
* ''
Wolves of the Night'' (1919)
* ''
The Paliser Case'' (1920)
* ''
Old Lady 31'' (1920)
* ''
The Land of Jazz
''The Land of Jazz'' is a 1920 American silent comedy film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation. Directed by Jules Furthman and written by Barbara La Marr, it starred Eileen Percy and Ruth Stonehouse.
Plot
Cast
* Eileen Percy as ...
'' (1920)
* ''
Sham
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Arabic use
* Al-Sham or Shām (شام), the Arabic term for the Greater Syria region, known in English as the Levant or the eastern Mediterranean, which includes the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus ...
'' (1921)
* ''
Black Roses'' (1921)
* ''
One Wild Week'' (1921)
* ''
Bob Hampton of Placer'' (1921)
* ''
Her Winning Way'' (1921)
* ''
Miss Lulu Bett'' (1921)
* ''
The Top of New York'' (1922)
* ''
Ashes'' (1922)
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Soul of the Beast'' (1923)
* ''
Can a Woman Love Twice?'' (1923)
* ''
Scaramouche
Scaramouche () or Scaramouch (; Italian: Scaramuccia ; ) is a stock clown character of the 16th-century commedia dell'arte (comic theatrical arts of Italian literature). The role combined characteristics of the Zanni (servant) and il Capitan ...
'' (1923)
* ''
Breaking Into Society'' (1923)
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Dante's Inferno
''Inferno'' (; Italian for ' Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem '' The Divine Comedy'', followed by and . The ''Inferno'' describes the journey of a fictionalised version of Dante himsel ...
'' (1924)
* ''
His Hour'' (1924)
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Thundering Hoofs'' (1924)
* ''
The Man in Blue'' (1925)
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The Eagle'' (1925)
* ''
The Golden Cocoon'' (1925)
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Rose of the World'' (1925)
References
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1862 births
1926 deaths
Actresses from Nevada
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
20th-century American actresses