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Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 8, 1882
Died
June 6, 1966
Place of Birth
Champaign, Illinois, USA
Ethel Clayton
0.2 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia Ethel Clayton (November 8, 1882 — June 6, 1966) was an American actress of the silent film era. Clayton's screen debut came in 1909, in a short called Justified. She jockeyed her early film appearances with a burgeoning stage career. Her pretty blond looks were reminiscent of the famous Gibson Girl drawings by Charles Dana Gibson. On the stage she appeared mainly in musicals or musical reviews such as The Ziegfeld Follies of 1911. These musical appearances indicate a singing talent Clayton may have possessed but went unused in her many silent screen performances. In 1912 she appeared in "The Country Boy" on stage at the Lyceum Theatre in Rochester New York and made her feature length film debut in For the Love of a Girl. The film was directed by Barry O'Neil. She was cast with Harry Myers, Charles Arthur, and Peter Lang. She was also directed by William Demille, Robert G. Vignola, George Melford, Donald Crisp, Dallas M. Fitzgerald, and Clifford Sanforth. Like many silent film actors Clayton's career was hurt by the coming of sound to motion pictures. She continued her career in small parts in movies until she retired in 1948. Her screen credits number more than 180. Clayton was first married to actor-director Joseph Kaufman until his death in 1918 in the Spanish Influenza epidemic. She later married silent film actor and former star Ian Keith twice and they divorced twice. In both cases Clayton cited cruelty and excessive drinking. Clayton and Keith were first married in Minneapolis in 1928 and first separated on January 13, 1931. Ethel Clayton died on June 6, 1966 at St. John's Hospital in Oxnard, California, aged 83. She was buried at Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Ethel Clayton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Known For
6.0
Woman (uncredited)
True to Life
1943
4.0
Mardi Gras Woman
Mardi Gras
1943
3.0
Woman (uncredited)
Dixie
1943
7.0
Ball Guest (uncredited)
The Major and the Minor
1942
0.0
Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942
10.0
(uncredited)
New York Town
1941
6.0
Nurse
West Point Widow
1941
6.5
Minor Role
Love Thy Neighbor
1940
5.0
Geronimo
1939
5.8
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
King of Chinatown
1939
Credits
True to Life
as Woman (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Mardi Gras
as Mardi Gras Woman
1943
4.0
Dixie
as Woman (uncredited)
1943
3.0
The Major and the Minor
as Ball Guest (uncredited)
1942
7.0
Beyond the Blue Horizon
as Guest at Chase's Residence (uncredited)
1942
0.0
New York Town
as (uncredited)
1941
10.0
West Point Widow
as Nurse
1941
6.0
Love Thy Neighbor
as Minor Role
1940
6.5
Geronimo
1939
5.0
King of Chinatown
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
1939
5.8
The Sap Takes a Wrap
as Mrs. Wallace
1939
0.0
Cafe Society
as Woman
1939
6.0
Boy Trouble
1939
5.0
Say It in French
as Bit Part (uncredited)
1938
0.0
Say It in French
as Bit Part
1938
0.0
If I Were King
as Old Woman (uncredited)
1938
6.8
Men with Wings
as Woman
1938
6.0
You and Me
as Employment Agency Clerk (uncredited)
1938
6.7
Cocoanut Grove
as Undetermined Role
1938
0.0
Wells Fargo
as Pioneer Woman
1937
5.2
Hold 'Em Navy
as Girl
1937
3.0
Exclusive
1937
6.0
Artists & Models
as Seamtress (uncredited)
1937
6.0
Easy Living
as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
1937
7.0
Make Way for Tomorrow
as Customer (uncredited)
1937
7.5
Waikiki Wedding
as Tourist (uncredited)
1937
5.5
Rich Relations
as Mrs. Blair
1937
0.0
The Accusing Finger
1936
4.7
Hollywood Boulevard
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1936
2.5
Yours for the Asking
as Casino Patron (uncredited)
1936
1.0
Let's Fall in Love
as Star
1933
7.5
Private Jones
as Mrs. Winthrop (uncredited)
1933
0.0
Secrets
as Audrey Carlton
1933
5.1
The All-American
as Mrs. Bowen
1932
5.0
The Crooked Circle
as Yvonne
1932
4.8
Thrill of Youth
as Alice Fenwick
1932
5.5
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Call of the Circus
1930
0.0
Hit the Deck
as Mrs. Payne
1929
9.0
The Princess from Hoboken
as Mrs. O'Brien
1927
0.0
Risky Business
as Mrs. Stoughton
1926
6.0
Sunny Side Up
as Cissy Cason
1926
0.0
Merry Widower
as The Hunter's Wife
1926
6.0
Lightnin'
as Margaret Davis
1925
5.2
🎬
Wings of Youth
as Katherine Manners
1925
0.0
If I Were Queen
as Ruth Townley
1922
0.0
For the Defense
as Anne Woodstock
1922
0.0
The Cradle
as Margaret Harvey
1922
0.0
Her Own Money
as Mildred Carr
1922
0.0
Beyond
as Avis Langley
1921
0.0
Sham
as Katherine Van Riper
1921
0.0
The Price of Possession
as Helen Carston
1921
0.0
The Sins of Rosanne
as Roseanne Ozanne
1920
0.0
A City Sparrow
as Milly West
1920
0.0
Crooked Streets
as Gail Ellis
1920
0.0
The Ladder of Lies
as Edith Parrish
1920
0.0
🎬
A Lady in Love
as Barbara Martin
1920
0.0
Young Mrs. Winthrop
as Constance Winthrop
1920
1.0
The 13th Commandment
1920
0.0
A Sporting Chance
as Carey Brent
1919
0.0
Men, Women, and Money
as Marcel Middleton
1919
0.0
Maggie Pepper
as Maggie Pepper
1919
0.0
The Mystery Girl
as Countess Therese
1918
0.0
Women's Weapons
as Anne Elliot
1918
0.0
The Witch Woman
as Marie Beaupre
1918
0.0
Stolen Hours
as Diana Lester
1918
1.0
The Volunteer
as Self - Cameo Appearance
1917
0.0
🎬
The Dormant Power
1917
0.0
The Stolen Paradise
1917
0.0
Yankee Pluck
as Polly Pollard
1917
0.0
Man's Woman
as Violet Galloway
1917
0.0
The Web of Desire
as Grace Miller
1917
0.0
The Bondage of Fear
as Vesta Wheatley
1917
0.0
The New South
as Georgia Gwynne, as an adult
1916
0.0
Beyond the Wall
as Helen Carlton
1916
0.0
The Hidden Scar
as Janet Hall
1916
0.0
Husband and Wife
as Doris Baker
1916
1.0
A Woman's Way
as Marion Livingston
1916
0.0
🎬
His Brother's Wife
as Helen Barton
1916
0.0
The Great Divide
as Ruth Jordan
1915
7.0
🎬
The Sporting Duchess
as Lady Muriel Desborough
1915
0.0
🎬
The Unmarried Husband
as Nell - the Actress Wife
1915
0.0
🎬
Here Comes the Bride
as Reed's Stenographer
1915
0.0
🎬
A Woman Went Forth
as Ethel Rogers
1915
0.0
🎬
It All Depends
as Clara Dean
1915
0.0
🎬
His Soul Mate
as Nellie - the Stenographer
1915
0.0
🎬
The House Next Door
as Ulrica Cotswolt
1914
0.0
🎬
The Fortune Hunter
as Betty Graham
1914
0.0
The Wolf
as Jules' Sweetheart
1914
0.0
The Lion and the Mouse
as Shirley Rossmore / Sarah Green
1914
0.0
When the Earth Trembled
as Dora Sims
1913
4.3
🎬
The Price Demanded
as Rose Delane
1913
0.0
Friend John
as Ruth Rogers - the Quaker Maid
1913
0.0
🎬
Just Maine Folks
as Ethel Walters
1912
4.5
Pilgrim's Progress
as Elizabeth - Bunyon's Wife
1912
0.0
🎬
The Tout's Remembrance
as Agnes Dudley - the Storekeeper's Daughter
1910
0.0