Florence Turner was an American actress who became known as the "Vitagraph Girl" in early silent films.
Mae Marsh was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.
Clara Kimball Young was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.
Daphne Pollard was an Australian-born vaudeville performer and dancer, active on stage and later in US films, mostly short comedies.
Vivian Martin was an American stage and silent film actress.
Mary Maguire Alden was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.
Louise Lester was an American silent film actress. She was the first female star of Western films.
Eugenie Besserer was an American actress who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion-picture era, beginning in 1910. Her most prominent role is that of the title character's mother in the first talkie film, The Jazz Singer.
William Worthington was an American silent film actor and director.
Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Grandpa in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt [. . .] the greatest character actor of all time."
Elisabeth Risdon was an English film actress. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1913 and 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts.
Claire McDowell was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945.
Josephine Boneparte Crowell was a Canadian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1912 and 1929.
Mary Jane Lee, known professionally as Jennie Lee, was an American actress of the stage and screen.
Vera Lewis was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in more than 180 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis.
Edna Cecil Cunningham was an American film and stage actress, singer, and comedienne.
Miriam Nesbitt was an American stage and film actress.
Julia R. Hurley was an American actress who found popularity in her senior years in silent films. She is best remembered today as the 'landlady with the lamp' in the John Barrymore classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920, a role for which she is uncredited. This film is her most readily available film today.
Robert Gaillard (1868–1941) was an American stage and film actor. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.
Antrim Short was an American stage and film actor, casting director and talent agent. As a juvenile he enjoyed some success on the Broadway stage notably appearing as a boy with Mrs. Fiske and Holbrook Blinn in Salvation Nell in 1908. While in his teens he appeared in silent films playing the kind of roles that were made popular by Jack Pickford.
