Violet Heming (27 January 1895 – 4 July 1981) was an English stage and screen
actress. Her name sometimes appeared as Violet Hemming in newspapers.
Biography
Born Violet Hemming in
Leeds,
Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming who appeared in
silent films and Mabel Allen.
Heming began a stage career in 1908, appearing as Carrie Crews in ''Fluffy Ruffles''.
She appeared in her first motion picture, a
short film for
Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with
George Arliss in the play ''
Disraeli''.
In September 1925, ''Variety'' reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the
De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.
Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades, she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.
[''Silent Film Necrology'', 2nd Edit. by Eugene Michael Vazzana, p.238; c.2001(mention of mother being Mabel Allen)]
She died on 4 July 1981.
Partial filmography
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The Woman Hater
''The Woman Hater, or, The Hungry Courtier'' is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. One of the earliest of their collaborations, it was the first of their plays to appear in print, in 1607.
Date ...
'' (1910 short)
*''Tempest and Sunshine'' (1910 short)
*''Lena Rivers'' (1910 short)
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The Mermaid'' (1910)
*''Paul and Virginia'' (1910 film)
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The Running Fight
''The Running Fight'' is a 1915 silent film drama, directed by James Durkin and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a novel by William Hamilton Osborne, and stars Violet Heming.
Preservation status
The film is preserved today ...
'' (1915), extant in the
Library of Congress
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The Danger Trail'' (1917)
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The Turn of the Wheel
''The Turn of the Wheel'' is a lost film, lost 1918 American silent film, silent romantic drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures. Reginald Barker directed and Geraldine Farrar starred.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Rosalie ...
'' (1918)
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The Common Cause'' (1919)
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Everywoman
The everyman is a stock character of fiction. An ordinary and humble character, the everyman is generally a protagonist whose benign conduct fosters the audience's identification with them.
Origin
The term ''everyman'' was used as early as ...
'' (1919)
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The Cost'' (1920)
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When the Desert Calls
''When the Desert Calls'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Violet Heming, Robert Frazer and Huntley Gordon.Connelly p.432
Cast
* Violet Heming as Louise Caldwell
* Robert Frazer as Eldred Caldwell / ...
'' (1922)
*''The Knife'' (1929 short), made in
Fox Movietone
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The Man Who Played God'' (1932)
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Almost Married'' (1932)
References
External links
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*baby picture; Violet Hemin
aged 3
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1895 births
1981 deaths
Actresses from Leeds
English film actresses
English silent film actresses
20th-century English actresses
British emigrants to the United States