Ethel Wales

Ethel Wales
Wales (left) on lobby card for Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath, 1928
Born	(1878-04-04)April 4, 1878 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	February 15, 1952(1952-02-15) (aged 73) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1920–1950
Spouse(s)	1) Wellington E. Wales (died 1966); 1 son (Wellington Charles Wales (1918–1966)) 2) Hal Taliaferro

Ethel Wales (April 4, 1878 – February 15, 1952) was an American actress.

Biography

Born in 1878 in Passaic, New Jersey, Wales appeared in over 130 films during her 30-year career. She was the first wife of Wellington E. Wales (1886–1954), Mary Pickford's business manager during the height of her popularity. The couple had one son, Wellington Charles Wales (1918–1966), an editorial writer for The New York Times who died of a heart attack shortly after his 19-year-old son Samuel was killed in a train mishap. Ethel's second husband was the actor Hal Taliaferro.

She died in 1952 in Hollywood, California.

Partial filmography

• Midsummer Madness (1921)
• After the Show (1921)
• Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
• Our Leading Citizen (1922)
• The Bonded Woman (1922)
• Nice People (1922)
• Manslaughter (1922)
• The Covered Wagon (1923)
• The Marriage Maker (1923)
• Stepping Fast (1923)
• Loving Lies (1924)
• The White Sin (1924)
• Which Shall It Be? (1924)
• The Wedding Song (1925)
• Don't (1925)
• The Monster (1925)
• The Rag Man (1925)
• Steppin' Out (1925)
• Wandering Footsteps (1925)
• Made for Love (1926)
• Take It from Me (1926)
• The Unknown Soldier (1926)
• Cradle Snatchers (1927)
• Stage Kisses (1927)
• The Satin Woman (1927)
• The Girl in the Pullman (1927)
• The Country Doctor (1927)
• The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
• Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
• On to Reno (1928)
• The Perfect Crime (1928)
• Tenth Avenue (1928)
• Craig's Wife (1928)
• Taxi 13 (1928)
• The Donovan Affair (1929)
• The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
• The Dude Wrangler (1930)
• Tom Sawyer (1930) - Mrs. Harper
• The Criminal Code (1931)
• Maker of Men (1931)
• The Fighting Fool (1932)
• Love in High Gear (1932)
• The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
• A Man's Land (1932)
• The Important Witness (1933)
• The Gladiator (1938)
• Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) (uncredited)

External links

• Ethel Wales at IMDb
• Still from The Bedroom Window (1924) with Ethel Wales at gettyimages.com