Ruth King (September 10, 1898 – February 27, 1946) was an American
film 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 ...
. She played a mixture of
lead
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and
supporting role
A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storyline, but is important to the plot/protagonist, and appears or is mentioned in the story enough to be more than just a minor character or a cameo a ...
s including starring in several
Essanay Studios
Essanay Studios, officially the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago by George Kirke Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, originally as the Peerless Film Manufactu ...
films directed by
W.S. Van Dyke.
King was married to actor
Tom Forman. They were divorced in 1917.
She later married Ward Hamilton.
In 1928, King was sued for $200,000 for alienation of affections. Verda Sherwood charged that her husband, George Sherwood, "had become infatuated with Miss King".
Selected filmography
* ''
The Land of Long Shadows'' (1917)
* ''
Open Places'' (1917)
* ''
The Evil Eye'' (1917)
* ''
The Range Boss'' (1917)
* ''
The Blood of His Fathers'' (1917)
* ''
Men of the Desert'' (1917)
* ''
The Devil's Pass Key'' (1920)
* ''
Dangerous Love'' (1920)
* ''
Alias Miss Dodd'' (1920)
* ''
A Beggar in Purple'' (1920)
* ''
For the Soul of Rafael
''For the Soul of Rafael'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Harry Garson and starring Clara Kimball Young, Bertram Grassby and Eugenie Besserer.Connelly p.350
Plot
Cast
* Clara Kimball Young as Marta Raquel Estevan
* Bertra ...
'' (1920)
* ''
Fifty Candles
''Fifty Candles'' is a 1921 American silent mystery film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Bertram Grassby, Marjorie Daw and Ruth King.Munden p.236
Plot
Cast
* Bertram Grassby as Hung Chin Chung
* Marjorie Daw as Mary-Will Tellfair
* ...
'' (1921)
* ''
The Cheater Reformed'' (1921)
* ''
Silent Years'' (1921)
* ''
A Cafe in Cairo'' (1924)
* ''
He Who Gets Slapped'' (1924)
* ''
The Dixie Handicap'' (1924)
* ''
Scandal Proof'' (1925)
* ''
The Lady from Hell'' (1926)
* ''
Driftin' Thru'' (1926)
References
External links
*
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
1898 births
1946 deaths
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
20th-century American actresses
People from Sioux City, Iowa
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