Florence Lawrence
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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
Acting
Movie
The Lonely Villa
1909
Movie
Those Awful Hats
as Theatre Audience
1909
Movie
Night Must Fall
1937
Movie
The Country Doctor
as Mrs. Harcourt
1909
Movie
The Mended Lute
as Rising Moon
1909
Movie
Man on the Flying Trapeze
as (uncredited)
1935
Movie
The Old-Fashioned Way
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1934
Movie
So Big!
as Mina (uncredited)
1932
Movie
Secrets
as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1933
Movie
The Curtain Pole
as Mrs. Edwards
1909
Movie
What Drink Did
as Mrs. Alfred Lucas
1909
Movie
A Drunkard's Reformation
as Woman in the Play
1909
Movie
Sinners in the Sun
1932
Movie
Lady Helen's Escapade
as Lady Helen
1909
Movie
The Zulu's Heart
as The Boer's Wife
1908
Movie
The Hard Hombre
as The Sister
1931
Movie
Money Mad
as Bank Customer / Landlady
1908
Movie
The Song of the Shirt
as Woman
1908
Movie
Yellow Dust
1936
Movie
The Taming of the Shrew
as Katharina
1908
Movie
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
as Calpurnia
1908
Movie
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
1909
Movie
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
as Mrs. Jones
1909
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Betrayed by a Handprint
as Myrtle Vane
1908