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Actress
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
1867(Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.A.)
Death:
19 December 1936(Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.)
Family:
Spouse(s):
Hobart Bosworth
The details
Biography
Introduction
Adele Farrington (1867 – 19 December 1936) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Farrington was a stage actress before appearing in 74 films between 1914 and 1926. She was a relatively old actress for the silent film era, being 47 at the beginning of her film career. She appeared in many films directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Her husband was film director and actor Hobart Bosworth, in whose films she also often appeared. They divorced and Bosworth remarried to a younger woman and had a small child by 1920. She died in Los Angeles, California.
Selected filmography
- False Colors (1914)
- It's No Laughing Matter (1915)
- Hypocrites (1915)
- The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917)
- The House of Silence (1918)
- Such a Little Pirate (1918)
- Putting It Over (1919)
- In Old Kentucky (1919)
- Too Much Johnson (1919)
- The Mollycoddle (1920)
- One Hour Before Dawn (1920)
- Black Beauty (1921)
- The Charm School (1921)
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)
- A Gentleman of Leisure (1923)
- Shadow of the Law (1926)