Mini-Biography:
Barbara Castleton was born on September 14, 1894 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She was an American Herec, 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.
Zivotopisné poznámky (v němčině): 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 Filmografie [Auszug]
1923: [12.02] The Net (Herci: Allayne Norman ), Režie J. Gordon Edwards, with Raymond Bloomer, Alan Roscoe, ,
1922: [11.19] My Friend the Devil (Herci: Anna Ryder ), Režie Harry F. Millarde, with Charles Richman, , ,
1922: [11.15] The Streets of New York (Herci: Lucy Bloodgood ), Režie Burton L. King, with Anders Randolf, Leslie King,
1922: [09.12] What's Wrong with the Women (Herci: Janet Lee), Režie Roy William Neill, with Wilton Lackaye, Constance Bennett, Montagu Love,
1922: [04.30] False Fronts (Herci: Helen Baxter ), Režie Samuel R. Bradley, with Edward Earle, Madelyn Clare, Frank Losee,
1921: [09.18] Shams of Society (Herci: Helen Porter), Režie Thomas B. Walsh, with Montagu Love, Edwards Davis,
1921: [08.20] The Child thou gavest me (Herci: Norma Huntley ), Režie John M. Stahl, with Adele Farrington, Winter Hall,
1920: [11.00] The Branding Iron (Herci: Joan Carver ), Režie Reginald Barker, with James Kirkwood, Russell Simpson,
1920: [06/00] Out of the Storm (Herci: Margaret Hill), Režie William Parke, with John Bowers, Sidney Ainsworth,
1920: [03.14] Dangerous Days (Herci: Audrey Valentine ), Režie Reginald Barker, with Lawson Butt, Clarissa Selwynne, Rowland V. Lee,
1919: [12.00] Dangerous Hours (Herci: May Weston), Režie Fred Niblo, with Lloyd Hughes, Claire du Brey,
1919: [12.00] Peg o' My Heart (Herci: Ethel Chicester ), Režie William C. de Mille, with Wanda Hawley, Thomas Meighan,
1919: [06.01] The Man Who Turned White (Herci), Režie Park Frame, with Wedgwood Nowell, H.B. Warner,
1919: [02.03] The Rough Neck (Herci: Frances), Režie Oscar Apfel, with Montagu Love, Robert Broderick, George De Carlton,
1919: [01.12] The Silver King (Herci), Režie George Irving, with William Faversham, Lawrence Johnson,
1919: [01.06] What Love Forgives (Herci), Režie Perry N. Vekroff, with John Bowers, , Bobby Connelly,
1918: [10.21] Just Sylvia (Herci: Sylvia), Režie Travers Vale, with Gertrude Berkeley, Eloise Clement,
1918: [08.05] Heredity (Herci: Nedda Trevor, as an adult ), Režie William P.S. Earle, with Madge Evans, Jennie Ellison,
1918: [07.06] Empty Pockets (Herci: Muriel Schuyler), Režie Herbert Brenon, with Bert Lytell, ,
1918: [07.01] The Heart of a Girl (Herci: Betty Lansing), Režie John G. Adolfi, with Irving Cummings, Charles Wellesley,
1918: [05.20] Vengeance (Herci: Lady Elsie Drillingcourt), Režie Travers Vale, with Montagu Love, George MacQuarrie,
1917: [09.19] Sins of Ambition (Herci: Ruth Maxwell ), Režie Ivan Abramson, with Wilfred Lucas, James Morrison, Anders Randolf,
1917: [09.10] For the Freedom of the World (Herci: Betty Milburn), Režie Romaine Fielding, with E.K. Lincoln, Romaine Fielding,
1917: [07.08] Parentage (Herci: Agnes Melton ), Režie Hobart Henley, with Anna Lehr, Hobart Henley,
1917: [06.23] On Trial (Herci: Mrs. Strickland), Režie James Young, with Sidney Ainsworth, Mary McAllister,
1917: [04.00] God's Man (Herci: Bertie ), Režie George Irving, with H.B. Warner, Kate Lester, Albert Tavernier,
1917: [01.25] Her Good Name (Herci: Agnes Gurnee ), Režie George Terwilliger, with Jean Sothern, William H. Turner, Earl Metcalfe,
1916: [11.12] War Brides (Herci: (--??--)), Režie Herbert Brenon, with Alla Nazimova, Charles Hutchison, Charles Bryant,
1916: [10.21] When Hands Are Idle (Herci), Režie N. N.,
1916: [10.17] A Daughter of the Gods (Herci), Režie Herbert Brenon, with Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal de Forest,
1914: [11.00] The Ordeal (Herci: Prologue & Epilogue), Režie Will S. Davis, with , Anna Laughlin, ,
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