Florence Lawrence
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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as "The First Movie Star", and was the first film actor to be named publicly. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as "The Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. Lawrence appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Birthday
January 1886
Homicide Squad
8
Sweeping Against the Winds
7
The Necklace
4
Night Must Fall
6.989
The Curtain Pole
4.5
The Hard Hombre
3.833
The Mended Lute
4.6
Those Awful Hats
6.073
Lady Helen's Escapade
4.1
Money Mad
4.8
The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals
3.8
Betrayed by a Handprint
2.9
The Song of the Shirt
3.6
A Drunkard's Reformation
5.5
Resurrection
4.9
Confidence
4.1
After Many Years
2.5
Her First Biscuits
3
Yellow Dust
4.5
The Taming of the Shrew
4.9
An Awful Moment
2.8
The Lure of the Gown
3.7
Sinners in the Sun
4.9
The Girl and the Outlaw
3
Behind the Scenes: Where All Is Not Gold That Glitters
2
The Red Girl
3.5
The Heart of O Yama
1.5
Where the Breakers Roar
3.2
At the Altar
3.8
A Smoked Husband
4
Father Gets in the Game
3.3
Romance of a Jewess
4.1
The Call of the Wild
3.1
Concealing a Burglar
3
The Clubman and the Tramp
4
The Valet's Wife
3.5
The Feud and the Turkey
2
The Reckoning
4
The Test of Friendship
4
The Country Doctor
6.2
The Way of Man
4
Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy
4.7
Flo's Discipline
7
The Christmas Burglars
2
Mr. Jones at the Ball
4.1
The Helping Hand
2
One Touch of Nature
3
The Honor of Thieves
1.5
The Sacrifice
4
The Criminal Hypnotist
2
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
3
The Salvation Army Lass
4
The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
8
The Cardinal's Conspiracy
3.7
Her Child's Honor
9
The Old-Fashioned Way
7.188
Man on the Flying Trapeze
6.235
The Automobile Thieves
9
The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen
3
Two Memories
4.2
Sweet and Twenty
3.8
Secrets
5.214
Trying to Get Arrested
3.5
Not Like Other Girls
10
The Peachbasket Hat
4.2
The Slave
4.2
The Zulu's Heart
4.3
Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian
2.5
Elusive Isabel
0
Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
10
So Big!
5.688
Mrs. Jones Entertains
3.2
Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America
9
The Bandit's Waterloo: The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora
2.5
Ingomar, the Barbarian
3
The Devil
1.5
The Ingrate
2
The Pirate's Gold
4.5
The Planter's Wife
5
1776, or The Hessian Renegades
5.2
The Vaquero's Vow
3.5
Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet
3.5
Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils
10
The Stolen Jewels
4
A Woman's Way
3.5
The Awakening of Bess
9
A Baby's Shoe
2
The Brahma Diamond
1.5
The Deception
2
Lucky Jim
3
The Girls and Daddy
3
Drive for a Life
1.5
Eloping with Auntie
2.5
Eradicating Aunty
0.5
His Ward's Love
2.5
His Wife's Mother
2
Jealousy and the Man
2.5
The Jilt
0.5
Jones and His New Neighbors
2.5
The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines
8
The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance
7
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
2.5
Mr. Jones’ Burglar
1
The Medicine Bottle
1
Mrs. Jones' Lover or, I Want My Hat
0.5
The Note in the Shoe
1
The Broken Oath
9
The Call of the Circus
10
The Count of Montebello
10
Debt
10
The Eternal Triangle
7
A Game for Two
8
The Governor’s Pardon
7
His Second Wife
7
The Irony of Fate
8
Jane and the Stranger
8
The Politician's Love Story
4.3
The Prussian Spy
5
The Unfoldment
9
The Life Saver
8
The Maniac
10
The Matchmaker
9
Nan’s Diplomacy
8
One on Reno
7
Opportunity and the Man
9
The Professor’s Ward
9
A Show Girl’s Strategem
8
The Snare of Society
7
The Slavey’s Affinity
7
The State Line
8
The Story of Rosie’s Rose
8
That Awful Brother
7
Through Jealous Eyes
8
The Road to the Heart
5
The Roue’s Heart
4.5
Schneider’s Anti-Noise Crusade
3.5
Vanity and Its Cure
10
The Wife’s Awakening
7
The Surgeon’s Heroism
9
A Village Romance
10
The Face on the Screen
7
The Love Craze
10
Those Boys!
4.5
Tis an Ill Wind That Blows No Good
2.5
A Troublesome Satchel
3.5
The Winning Coat
5
The Wooden Leg
4
A Wreath in Time
4
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens
8
The Blind Man’s Tact
9
Justice in the Far North
10
The Maelstrom
9
The Miser’s Daughter
8
The Mistake
8
Mother Love
10
The New Shawl
8
The Nichols on a Vacation
10
Old Heads and Young Hearts
9
Once Upon a Time
7
Pressed Roses
8
A Reno Romance
9
The Right Girl
8
The Right of Love
10
The Senator’s Double
8
The Stage Note
9
The Taming of Jane
10
The Tide of Fortune
7
Transfusion
0
Two Men
0
The Winning Punch
9
The Satin Girl
10
Gambling Wives
10
The Advent of Jane
7
After All
8
The Actress and the Singer
7
Age Versus Youth
7
Always a Way
10
Art Versus Music
9
All for Love
9
The Angel of the Studio
4
Betty’s Nightmare
7
The Chance Shot
7
Her Cousin Fred
8
In Swift Waters
0
The Lady Leone
9
The Mill Buyers
10
The Players
10
The Redemption of Riverton
7
Sisters
9
Tangled Relations
8
The Winning Punch
10
The Closed Door
9
A Girl and Her Money
9
The Girl O’ the Woods
8
His Wife’s Child
9
Influence of Sympathy
8
The Rosary
10
The Little Rebel
8
The Two Fathers
0
Taking a Chance
7
Aunt Jane’s Legacy
9
Duke de Ribbon Counter
7
The Doctor's Perfidy
8
The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain
10
Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance
9
Macbeth, Shakespeare’s Sublime Tragedy
4
Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy
3
The Forest Ranger’s Daughter
9
Her Generous Way
9
Lest We Forget
10
Love's Stratagem
8
All the World’s a Stage
10
During Cherry Time
8
A Fascinating Bachelor
10
A Game of Deception
9
A Good Turn
0
The Spender
8
Suffragettes Parade in Washington
10
Unto the Third Generation
9
The Bribe
9
The Coryphee
7
Counterfeiters
0
Diplomatic Flo
10
The Disenchantment
8
The Doctor’s Testimony
9
The False Bride
8
The Great Universal Mystery
8
Her Ragged Knight
7
The Honeymooners
9
The Honor of the Humble
10
The Law’s Decree
8
The Little Mail Carrier
9
The Mad Man’s Ward
7
The Man Who Was Never Kissed
8
A Mysterious Mystery
9
The Pawns of Destiny
10
The Romance of the Photograph
9
A Singular Cynic
0
The Stepmother
9
The Test
9
A Head for Business
10
Her Artistic Temperament
9
Her Humble Ministry
10
Her Two Sons
0
Higgenses Versus Judsons
10
His Bogus Uncle
8
His Friend, the Burglar
7
His Chorus Girl Wife
8
A Girlish Impulse
7
The Hoyden
7
A Rebellious Blossom
10
Romance of Pond Cove
9
A Rural Conqueror
8
The Sheriff and the Man
9
The Cord of Life
3.5
What Drink Did
4.5
Tragic Love
4
Nursing a Viper
4.2
I Did It
2.5
The Time-Lock Safe
0
Saul and David
0
The Lonely Villa
6
Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
4.167
The Judgment of Solomon
9
Tender Hearts
3
The Casting Couch
8.333