From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movie | Girls of the Big House | Visitors Matron | 1945-11-02 |
Movie | Meet the People | Ritz Patron (uncredited) | 1944-06-01 |
Movie | Family Troubles | 1943-04-03 | |
Movie | Slightly Dangerous | Customer (uncredited) | 1943-04-01 |
Movie | Who's Superstitious? | Wife | 1943-01-02 |
Movie | Presenting Lily Mars | Assistant Boardinghouse Manager | 1943-04-29 |
Movie | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Secretary (uncredited) | 1943-05-08 |
Movie | Lost Angel | Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 1943-12-23 |
Movie | Best Foot Forward | Chaperone at Dance | 1943-10-08 |
Movie | Du Barry was a Lady | Ambrose's Wife (uncredited) | 1943-08-13 |
Movie | Seeing Hands | Ben's Mother (uncredited) | 1943-07-03 |
Movie | Born to Sing | Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited) | 1942-02-18 |
Movie | Nazi Agent | Woman (uncredited) | 1942-03-01 |
Movie | Inflation | Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited) | 1942-01-01 |
Movie | The Lady or the Tiger? | Lady Behind the Door | 1942-03-28 |
Movie | Reunion in France | Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited) | 1942-12-25 |
Movie | Ship Ahoy | Mrs. Loring | 1942-04-16 |
Movie | Sucker List | Secretary (uncredited) | 1941-07-26 |
Movie | Maisie Was a Lady | Nurse (Uncredited) | 1941-01-10 |
Movie | Whistling in the Dark | Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited) | 1941-08-08 |
Movie | Love Crazy | Renny's Secretary (uncredited) | 1941-05-23 |
Movie | Honky Tonk | Salvation Army Woman | 1941-10-01 |
Movie | Main Street on the March! | Nurse (uncredited) | 1941-12-09 |
Movie | Wedding Worries | Miss Douglas (uncredited) | 1941-12-13 |
Movie | Come Back, Miss Pipps | Angry Parent (uncredited) | 1941-10-24 |
Movie | Florian | Kingston's Secretary | 1940-06-05 |
Movie | Women in Hiding | Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited) | 1940-06-22 |
Movie | Bubbling Troubles | Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited) | 1940-05-25 |
Movie | We Who Are Young | Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited) | 1940-07-19 |
Movie | The Earl of Chicago | Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited) | 1940-01-05 |
Movie | Gold Rush Maisie | Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited) | 1940-07-26 |
Movie | Pound Foolish | Mayor's Secretary | 1940-01-27 |
Movie | The Domineering Male | Party Hostess (uncredited) | 1940-03-30 |
Movie | Sky Murder | Grand's Maid | 1940-09-27 |
Movie | Little Nellie Kelly | Miss Wilson the Nurse with Baby (uncredited) | 1940-11-22 |
Movie | American Spoken Here | Corset Buyer (uncredited) | 1940-11-30 |
Movie | I Love You Again | Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited) | 1940-08-09 |
Movie | Third Finger, Left Hand | Woman at Railroad Station | 1940-10-11 |
Movie | You, the People | Rooming House Diner | 1940-11-30 |
Movie | Boom Town | Nurse (uncredited) | 1940-08-30 |
Movie | Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Carew's Secretary (uncredited) | 1940-09-06 |
Movie | Go West | Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited) | 1940-12-06 |
Movie | Tiny Troubles | Alfalfa's mother | 1939-02-18 |
Movie | Within the Law | Sarah - Gilder's Secretary | 1939-03-17 |
Movie | Four Girls in White | Nurse Behind Counter | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | Woman in Movie House (uncredited) | 1939-01-13 |
Movie | Sergeant Madden | Nurse | 1939-03-24 |
Movie | Alfalfa's Aunt | Martha Switzer | 1939-01-07 |
Movie | Idiot's Delight | Nurse #1 | 1939-01-27 |
Movie | Angel of Mercy | Wife (uncredited) | 1939-05-20 |
Movie | Broadway Serenade | Gracie (uncredited) | 1939-04-07 |
Movie | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | Neighbor | 1939-12-01 |
Movie | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Miss Howard (uncredited) | 1939-07-21 |
Movie | Dancing Co-Ed | Secretary (voice) (uncredited) | 1939-09-29 |
Movie | On Borrowed Time | Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited) | 1939-07-07 |
Movie | Calling Dr. Kildare | Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited) | 1939-04-28 |
Movie | Stronger Than Desire | Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited) | 1939-06-30 |
Movie | Woman Against Woman | Nurse Sherwood | 1938-06-24 |
Movie | That Mothers Might Live | Nun Reading Book (uncredited) | 1938-04-30 |
Movie | The First Hundred Years | Sadie (uncredited) | 1938-03-12 |
Movie | Miracle Money | Miss Grant (uncredited) | 1938-03-26 |
Movie | The Chaser | Brandon's Secretary | 1938-07-29 |
Movie | Boys Town | Nun (uncredited) | 1938-09-08 |
Movie | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Kate | 1938-08-12 |
Movie | Men in Fright | Sonny's Mother (uncredited) | 1938-10-15 |
Movie | Young Dr. Kildare | Nurse (uncredited) | 1938-10-14 |
Movie | How to Read | Dental Patient (uncredited) | 1938-08-27 |
Movie | The Grand Bounce | Doctor's Secretary (uncredited) | 1937-05-22 |
Movie | Song of Revolt | Peasant Woman (uncredited) | 1937-05-29 |
Movie | Big City | Woman Who Screams (uncredited) | 1937-09-03 |
Movie | Navy Blue and Gold | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) | 1937-11-19 |
Movie | Brilliant Marriage | Brenda | 1936-03-25 |
Movie | Ring Around the Moon | Carol Anderson | 1936-02-15 |
Movie | The Mine with the Iron Door | Secretary | 1936-05-06 |
Movie | Three on a Limb | Addie | 1936-01-03 |
Movie | Easy Money | Mrs. Ada Turner | 1936-06-13 |
Movie | Born to Dance | Hector's Secretary (uncredited) | 1936-11-27 |
Movie | The Public Pays | Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited) | 1936-10-10 |
Movie | On Probation | Mable Gordon | 1935-04-01 |
Movie | The Keeper of the Bees | Nurse | 1935-07-14 |
Movie | 3 Kids and a Queen | Nurse | 1935-10-21 |
Movie | Condemned to Live | Martha Kristan | 1935-09-15 |
Movie | Midnight Phantom | Kathleen Ryan | 1935-11-26 |
Movie | Tomorrow's Youth | Miss Booth | 1934-10-14 |
Movie | Sons of Steel | Miss Peters | 1934-12-14 |
Movie | A Girl of the Limberlost | Elvira Carney | 1934-10-14 |
Movie | Found Alive | Edith Roberts | 1933-04-11 |
Movie | The Death Kiss | Script Girl | 1932-12-05 |
Movie | Brothers | Doris LaRue | 1931-05-18 |
Movie | The Lady from Nowhere | Mollie Carter | 1931-08-01 |
Movie | Sunny | Margaret Manners | 1930-11-09 |
Movie | The Love Trader | Luane | 1930-09-25 |
Movie | Tol'able David | Rose Kinemon | 1930-11-15 |
Movie | The Lash | Lupe | 1930-12-14 |
Movie | Smoke Bellew | Joy Gastrell | 1929-01-25 |
Movie | The Broken Mask | Caricia | 1928-01-01 |
Movie | The Port of Missing Girls | Ruth King | 1928-03-19 |
Movie | The Cavalier | 1928-11-01 | |
Movie | Fashion News | Self | 1928-11-06 |
Movie | Life of an Actress | Nora Dowen | 1927-02-15 |
Movie | The Notorious Lady | Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee | 1927-03-26 |
Movie | Mockery | Countess Tatiana Alexandrova | 1927-08-13 |
Movie | Backstage | Julia Joyce | 1927-04-01 |
Movie | A Man's Past | Yvonne Fontaine | 1927-10-01 |
Movie | The Sporting Lover | 1926-06-16 | |
Movie | Sunshine of Paradise Alley | Sunshine O'Day | 1926-12-15 |
Movie | The Mad Whirl | Margie Taylor | 1925-03-02 |
Movie | The Talker | Barbara Farley | 1925-05-24 |
Movie | Tumbleweeds | Molly Lassiter | 1925-12-27 |
Movie | What Fools Men | Jenny McFarlan | 1925-09-13 |
Movie | The Whipping Boss | Grace Woodward | 1924-02-09 |
Movie | Women Who Give | Emily Swift | 1924-03-03 |
Movie | The Spoilers | Helen Chester | 1923-08-26 |
Movie | Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary | 1923-04-22 |
Movie | The Acquittal | Edith Craig | 1923-11-19 |
Movie | The Big Punch | Hope Standish | 1921-02-13 |
Movie | The Face of the World | Thora | 1921-08-01 |
Movie | Cinderella of the Hills | 1921-10-23 | |
Movie | The Cradle of Courage | Nora | 1920-09-19 |
Movie | The Last of the Mohicans | Cora Munro | 1920-11-21 |