Emily Fitzroy
Appearance
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Born | London, England | 24 May 1860
Died | 3 March 1954 | (aged 93)
Occupation(s) | Film and theatre actress |
Years active | 1913-1944 |
Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen.
She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut in sound films came in Show Boat (1929).[1]
She retired in 1944, with exactly 100 films to her resume.[citation needed] Her last film was The White Cliffs of Dover (1944).[1]
Fitzroy's Broadway credits include What the Public Wants (1922), I. O. U. (1918), Rich Man, Poor Man (1916), Lady Luxury (1914), Never Say Die (1912), Lady Patricia (1912), and Just to Get Married (1912).[2]
Partial filmography
- East Lynne (1916)
- The Climbers (1919)
- The Man Who Lost Himself (1920)
- The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920)
- The New York Idea (1920)
- Way Down East (1920)
- Out of the Chorus (1921)
- Straight Is the Way (1921)
- Find the Woman (1922)
- Fascination (1922)
- No Trespassing (1922)
- Driven (1923)
- The Purple Highway (1923)
- Strangers of the Night (1923)
- Secrets (1924)
- The Red Lily (1924)
- His Hour (1924)
- Her Night of Romance (1924)
- The Man Who Came Back (1924)
- Zander the Great (1925)
- Are Parents People? (1925)
- Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925)
- Bobbed Hair (1925)
- The Red Kimono (1925)
- Outwitted (1925)
- Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
- The Bat (1926)
- [[[Marriage License?]] (1926)
- Hard Boiled (1926)
- The Cheerful Fraud (1927)
- Mockery (1927)
- One Increasing Purpose (1927)
- Love (1927)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
- No Babies Wanted (1928)
- The Trail of '98 (1928)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
- Show Boat (1929)
- The Man from Blankley's (1930)
- She's My Weakness (1930)
- Misbehaving Ladies (1931)
- Aren't We All? (1932)
- Timbuctoo (1933)
- Don Quixote (1933)
- The Man with Two Faces (1934)
- The Bold Caballero (1936)
- The Frontiersmen (1938)
- Vigil in the Night (1940)
- Two-Faced Woman (1941)
- The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
References
- ^ a b Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9780786427468. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ "Emily Fitzroy". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Emily Fitzroy.
- Works by or about Emily Fitzroy at the Internet Archive
- Emily Fitzroy at IMDb
- Emily Fitzroy at the Internet Broadway Database
- Emily Fitzroy at Find a Grave
- Fitzroy as a young woman at age 30 on the November 15, 1890 cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine