Florence Lawrence
Actor
- Born
- January 1, 1886 · Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- December 28, 1938 (age 52)
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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.
Known for
The Lonely Villa
June 10, 1909
Those Awful Hats
January 25, 1909
Night Must Fall
April 30, 1937
The Country Doctor
July 8, 1909
The Mended Lute
August 5, 1909
Man on the Flying Trapeze
August 3, 1935
So Big!
April 30, 1932
The Old-Fashioned Way
July 13, 1934
Secrets
March 16, 1933
The Curtain Pole
February 15, 1909
Sinners in the Sun
May 13, 1932
What Drink Did
May 31, 1909
Acting265
- 1998Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists as Self (archive footage)
- 1995The Casting Couch
- 1937Night Must Fall
- 1936Yellow Dust
- 1935Man on the Flying Trapeze as (uncredited)
- 1934The Old-Fashioned Way as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- 1933Secrets as Undetermined Role (uncredited)
- 1932Sinners in the Sun
- 1932So Big! as Mina (uncredited)
- 1931The Hard Hombre as The Sister
- 1931