Mini-Biography:
Barbara Castleton was born on September 14, 1894 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She was an American Schauspielerinin, 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.
Biographical Notes
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.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1923: The Net (Darsteller: Allayne Norman ), Directed by J. Gordon Edwards, with Raymond Bloomer, Alan Roscoe, ,
1922: My Friend the Devil (Darsteller: Anna Ryder ), Directed by Harry F. Millarde, with Charles Richman, , ,
1922: The Streets of New York (Darsteller: Lucy Bloodgood ), Directed by Burton L. King, with Anders Randolf, Leslie King,
1922: What's Wrong with the Women (Darsteller: Janet Lee), Directed by Roy William Neill, with Wilton Lackaye, Constance Bennett, Montagu Love,
1922: False Fronts (Darsteller: Helen Baxter ), Directed by Samuel R. Bradley, with Edward Earle, Madelyn Clare, Frank Losee,
1921: Shams of Society (Darsteller: Helen Porter), Directed by Thomas B. Walsh, with Montagu Love, Edwards Davis,
1921: The Child thou gavest me (Darsteller: Norma Huntley ), Directed by John M. Stahl, with Adele Farrington, Winter Hall,
1920: The Branding Iron (Darsteller: Joan Carver ), Directed by Reginald Barker, with James Kirkwood, Russell Simpson,
1920: Out of the Storm (Darsteller: Margaret Hill), Directed by William Parke, with John Bowers, Sidney Ainsworth,
1920: Dangerous Days (Darsteller: Audrey Valentine ), Directed by Reginald Barker, with Lawson Butt, Clarissa Selwynne, Rowland V. Lee,
1919: Dangerous Hours (Darsteller: May Weston), Directed by Fred Niblo, with Lloyd Hughes, Claire du Brey,
1919: Peg o' My Heart (Darsteller: Ethel Chicester ), Directed by William C. de Mille, with Wanda Hawley, Thomas Meighan,
1919: The Man Who Turned White (Darsteller), Directed by Park Frame, with Wedgwood Nowell, H.B. Warner,
1919: The Rough Neck (Darsteller: Frances), Directed by Oscar Apfel, with Montagu Love, Robert Broderick, George De Carlton,
1919: The Silver King (Darsteller), Directed by George Irving, with William Faversham, Lawrence Johnson,
1919: What Love Forgives (Darsteller), Directed by Perry N. Vekroff, with John Bowers, , Bobby Connelly,
1918: Just Sylvia (Darsteller: Sylvia), Directed by Travers Vale, with Gertrude Berkeley, Eloise Clement,
1918: Heredity (Darsteller: Nedda Trevor, as an adult ), Directed by William P.S. Earle, with Madge Evans, Jennie Ellison,
1918: Empty Pockets (Darsteller: Muriel Schuyler), Directed by Herbert Brenon, with Bert Lytell, ,
1918: The Heart of a Girl (Darsteller: Betty Lansing), Directed by John G. Adolfi, with Irving Cummings, Charles Wellesley,
1918: Vengeance (Darsteller: Lady Elsie Drillingcourt), Directed by Travers Vale, with Montagu Love, George MacQuarrie,
1917: Sins of Ambition (Darsteller: Ruth Maxwell ), Directed by Ivan Abramson, with Wilfred Lucas, James Morrison, Anders Randolf,
1917: For the Freedom of the World (Darsteller: Betty Milburn), Directed by Romaine Fielding, with E.K. Lincoln, Romaine Fielding,
1917: Parentage (Darsteller: Agnes Melton ), Directed by Hobart Henley, with Anna Lehr, Hobart Henley,
1917: On Trial (Darsteller: Mrs. Strickland), Directed by James Young, with Sidney Ainsworth, Mary McAllister,
1917: God's Man (Darsteller: Bertie ), Directed by George Irving, with H.B. Warner, Kate Lester, Albert Tavernier,
1917: Her Good Name (Darsteller: Agnes Gurnee ), Directed by George Terwilliger, with Jean Sothern, William H. Turner, Earl Metcalfe,
1916: War Brides (Darsteller: (--??--)), Directed by Herbert Brenon, with Alla Nazimova, Charles Hutchison, Charles Bryant,
1916: When Hands Are Idle (Darsteller), Directed by N. N.,
1916: A Daughter of the Gods (Darsteller), Directed by Herbert Brenon, with Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal de Forest,
1914: The Ordeal (Darsteller: Prologue & Epilogue), Directed by Will S. Davis, with , Anna Laughlin, ,
Bibliography
- The Motion Picture World, May 21, 1921, pg 325
- Motography, October 13, 1917, pg 776
- Motography, October 27, 1917, pg 895
- Filmlexicon degli Autori e delle Opere, Vol. I, pp 1178-79