Mini-Biography:
Barbara Castleton was born on September 14, 1894 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She was an American Actriz, known for A Daughter of the Gods (1916), War Brides (1916), Dangerous Hours (1919), Barbara Castleton's first movie on record is from 1914. Barbara Castleton died on Dezember 23, 1978 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1923.
Biografia (en Alemán): Actress of the American Silent Screen, one of the first "Pin-Ups" and with Annette Kellerman as semi-dressed bathing beauty in A Daughter of the Gods directed by Herbert Brenon. Brenen directed her in some more pictures.
In 1917 Harry Berg announced Castleton as leading actress in a serie of moviews to be realized, but Beer career came to an abrupt end after it was discoevered he issued false checks and had no financial backings.
Barbara Castleton perforned in aproximately thirty movies, and her career ended in the mid Twenties.
1916
Barbara Castleton Starts Crusade That long-suffering word "movie" as used to described motion picture production, is to be wiped out of the dictionary, (that is if it was ever in there) if Barbara Castleton, the attractive and gifted young leading woman of the Unicorn Film Corporation's new feature, "When Hands Are Idle," has her way. Miss Castleton waxes indignant against the habit "Head" writers and reporters have of referring to her chosen art as the "movies" and is forming acommittee of well-known actresses to call upon New York editors and ask them to discontinue the use of the word. (Motion Picture News, November 18, 1916 pg 3132)
1917
Barbara Castleton Signs with Overland Film It will be of interest to those employed in the state rights field to learn that Harry Berg, of the Overland Film Company, is preparing to place several excellent releases on that market. Mr. Berg has just secured a two-year cintract with Barbara Castleton, who will appear under Berg Productions. (Motography, October 27, 1917, pg 895)
1921
Barbara Castleton has finished her work in the John M. Stahl production, "The Child Thozu Gavest Me," for First National and has returned to New York. (The Motion Picture World, May 21, 1921, pg 325)
Barbara Castleton Filmografia [Auszug]
1923: [12.02] The Net (Interpretación: Allayne Norman ), Dirección J. Gordon Edwards, con Raymond Bloomer, Alan Roscoe, ,
1922: [11.19] My Friend the Devil (Interpretación: Anna Ryder ), Dirección Harry F. Millarde, con Charles Richman, , ,
1922: [11.15] The Streets of New York (Interpretación: Lucy Bloodgood ), Dirección Burton L. King, con Anders Randolf, Leslie King,
1922: [09.12] What's Wrong with the Women (Interpretación: Janet Lee), Dirección Roy William Neill, con Wilton Lackaye, Constance Bennett, Montagu Love,
1922: [04.30] False Fronts (Interpretación: Helen Baxter ), Dirección Samuel R. Bradley, con Edward Earle, Madelyn Clare, Frank Losee,
1921: [09.18] Shams of Society (Interpretación: Helen Porter), Dirección Thomas B. Walsh, con Montagu Love, Edwards Davis,
1921: [08.20] The Child thou gavest me (Interpretación: Norma Huntley ), Dirección John M. Stahl, con Adele Farrington, Winter Hall,
1920: [11.00] The Branding Iron (Interpretación: Joan Carver ), Dirección Reginald Barker, con James Kirkwood, Russell Simpson,
1920: [06/00] Out of the Storm (Interpretación: Margaret Hill), Dirección William Parke, con John Bowers, Sidney Ainsworth,
1920: [03.14] Dangerous Days (Interpretación: Audrey Valentine ), Dirección Reginald Barker, con Lawson Butt, Clarissa Selwynne, Rowland V. Lee,
1919: [12.00] Dangerous Hours (Interpretación: May Weston), Dirección Fred Niblo, con Lloyd Hughes, Claire du Brey,
1919: [12.00] Peg o' My Heart (Interpretación: Ethel Chicester ), Dirección William C. de Mille, con Wanda Hawley, Thomas Meighan,
1919: [06.01] The Man Who Turned White (Interpretación), Dirección Park Frame, con Wedgwood Nowell, H.B. Warner,
1919: [02.03] The Rough Neck (Interpretación: Frances), Dirección Oscar Apfel, con Montagu Love, Robert Broderick, George De Carlton,
1919: [01.12] The Silver King (Interpretación), Dirección George Irving, con William Faversham, Lawrence Johnson,
1919: [01.06] What Love Forgives (Interpretación), Dirección Perry N. Vekroff, con John Bowers, , Bobby Connelly,
1918: [10.21] Just Sylvia (Interpretación: Sylvia), Dirección Travers Vale, con Gertrude Berkeley, Eloise Clement,
1918: [08.05] Heredity (Interpretación: Nedda Trevor, as an adult ), Dirección William P.S. Earle, con Madge Evans, Jennie Ellison,
1918: [07.06] Empty Pockets (Interpretación: Muriel Schuyler), Dirección Herbert Brenon, con Bert Lytell, ,
1918: [07.01] The Heart of a Girl (Interpretación: Betty Lansing), Dirección John G. Adolfi, con Irving Cummings, Charles Wellesley,
1918: [05.20] Vengeance (Interpretación: Lady Elsie Drillingcourt), Dirección Travers Vale, con Montagu Love, George MacQuarrie,
1917: [09.19] Sins of Ambition (Interpretación: Ruth Maxwell ), Dirección Ivan Abramson, con Wilfred Lucas, James Morrison, Anders Randolf,
1917: [09.10] For the Freedom of the World (Interpretación: Betty Milburn), Dirección Romaine Fielding, con E.K. Lincoln, Romaine Fielding,
1917: [07.08] Parentage (Interpretación: Agnes Melton ), Dirección Hobart Henley, con Anna Lehr, Hobart Henley,
1917: [06.23] On Trial (Interpretación: Mrs. Strickland), Dirección James Young, con Sidney Ainsworth, Mary McAllister,
1917: [04.00] God's Man (Interpretación: Bertie ), Dirección George Irving, con H.B. Warner, Kate Lester, Albert Tavernier,
1917: [01.25] Her Good Name (Interpretación: Agnes Gurnee ), Dirección George Terwilliger, con Jean Sothern, William H. Turner, Earl Metcalfe,
1916: [11.12] War Brides (Interpretación: (--??--)), Dirección Herbert Brenon, con Alla Nazimova, Charles Hutchison, Charles Bryant,
1916: [10.21] When Hands Are Idle (Interpretación), Dirección N. N.,
1916: [10.17] A Daughter of the Gods (Interpretación), Dirección Herbert Brenon, con Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal de Forest,
1914: [11.00] The Ordeal (Interpretación: Prologue & Epilogue), Dirección Will S. Davis, con , Anna Laughlin, ,