Barbara Bedford
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 19, 1903, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA
- Died
- October 25, 1981
- Movies
- 157
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Barbara Bedford (born Violet May Rose; July 19, 1903 – October 25, 1981) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of silent movies. Her career declined after the introduction of sound, but she continued to appear in small roles until 1945.
After high school she set out for Hollywood. She had written many fan letters to actor William S. Hart, and he helped her get a small role in his 1920 movie The Cradle of Courage. While working as an extra that same year on The White Circle, she was noticed by fellow cast member John Gilbert, who recommended her to director Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur cast her alongside Gilbert in Deep Waters. Tourneur also cast her in The Last of the Mohicans, where she was the love interest for Alan Roscoe, whom she later married in real life.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1945 | Girls of the Big House | Visitors Matron |
| 1944 | Meet the People | Ritz Patron (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Lost Angel | Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Best Foot Forward | Chaperone at Dance |
| 1943 | Du Barry Was a Lady | Ambrose's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Seeing Hands | Ben's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Presenting Lily Mars | Assistant Boardinghouse Manager |
| 1943 | Family Troubles | |
| 1943 | Slightly Dangerous | Customer (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Who's Superstitious? | Wife |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Mme. Vigouroux (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Tortilla Flat | Nun |
| 1942 | Ship Ahoy | Mrs. Loring |
| 1942 | The Lady or the Tiger? | Lady Behind the Door |
| 1942 | Nazi Agent | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Born to Sing | Woman at Accident Scene (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Flag of Mercy | Nurse |
| 1942 | Inflation | Woman in Close-Out Sale Montage (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Wedding Worries | Miss Douglas (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Main Street on the March! | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Come Back, Miss Pipps | Angry Parent (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Honky Tonk | Salvation Army Woman (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Whistling in the Dark | Cult Members / Telephone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Sucker List | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Love Crazy | Renny's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1941 | 1-2-3-Go! | Nurse |
| 1941 | Maisie Was a Lady | Nurse (Uncredited) |
| 1940 | Go West | Baby's Mother on Stagecoach (uncredited) |
| 1940 | You, the People | Rooming House Diner |
| 1940 | American Spoken Here | Corset Buyer (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Little Nellie Kelly | Miss Wilson (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Third Finger, Left Hand | Woman at Railroad Station |
| 1940 | Sky Murder | Grand's Maid |
| 1940 | Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Carew's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Boom Town | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1940 | I Love You Again | Miss Stingecombe - Larry's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Gold Rush Maisie | Mrs. Hartley (Uncredited) |
| 1940 | We Who Are Young | Hospital Phone Operator (uncredited) |
| 1940 | A Way in the Wilderness | Sick Farmer's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Women in Hiding | Head Nurse Miss Townsend (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Florian | Kingston's Secretary |
| 1940 | Bubbling Troubles | Alfalfa's Mom (uncredited) |
| 1940 | The Domineering Male | Party Hostess (uncredited) |
| 1940 | All About Hash | Alfalfa's Mother |
| 1940 | Pound Foolish | Mayor's Secretary |
| 1940 | That Inferior Feeling | Bride (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Alfalfa's Double | Alfalfa's Mother |
| 1940 | The Earl of Chicago | Ramsey's Secretary Martha Jackson (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President | Neighbor |
| 1939 | Dancing Co-Ed | Secretary (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever | Miss Howard (uncredited) |
| 1939 | On Borrowed Time | Mrs. James Northrup (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Stronger Than Desire | Miss Watson - Flagg's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Angel of Mercy | Wife (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Radio Hams | Mrs. Crane |
| 1939 | Calling Dr. Kildare | Dr. Carew's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Broadway Serenade | Gracie (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Nurse |
| 1939 | Within the Law | Sarah - Gilder's Secretary |
| 1939 | Tiny Troubles | Alfalfa's mother |
| 1939 | Four Girls in White | Nurse Behind Counter |
| 1939 | Idiot's Delight | Nurse #1 |
| 1939 | Burn 'Em Up O'Connor | Woman in Movie House (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Alfalfa's Aunt | Martha Switzer |
| 1938 | Men in Fright | Sonny's Mother (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Young Dr. Kildare | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Too Hot to Handle | MacArthur's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Boys Town | Nun (uncredited) |
| 1938 | How to Read | Dental Patient (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Rich Man, Poor Girl | Kate |
| 1938 | The Chaser | Brandon's Secretary |
| 1938 | Fast Company | MacMillen's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Woman Against Woman | Nurse Sherwood |
| 1938 | That Mothers Might Live | Nun Reading Book (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Miracle Money | Miss Grant (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The First Hundred Years | Sadie (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Navy Blue and Gold | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Big City | Woman Who Screams (uncredited) |
| 1937 | It May Happen to You | Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Song of Revolt | Peasant Woman (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Grand Bounce | Doctor's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Born to Dance | Hector's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1936 | The Public Pays | Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Easy Money | Mrs. Ada Turner |
| 1936 | The Mine with the Iron Door | Secretary |
| 1936 | Brilliant Marriage | Brenda |
| 1936 | Ring Around the Moon | Carol Anderson |
| 1936 | Three on a Limb | Addie |
| 1935 | Forced Landing | Mrs. Margaret Byrd |
| 1935 | Midnight Phantom | Kathleen Ryan |
| 1935 | 3 Kids and a Queen | Nurse |
| 1935 | The Spanish Cape Mystery | Mrs. Munn |
| 1935 | Condemned to Live | Martha Kristan |
| 1935 | The Keeper of the Bees | Nurse |
| 1935 | On Probation | Mable Gordon |
| 1935 | Circumstantial Evidence | Mrs. Goodwin (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Sons of Steel | Miss Peters |
| 1934 | A Girl of the Limberlost | Elvira Carney |
| 1934 | Tomorrow's Youth | Miss Booth |
| 1933 | Found Alive | Edith Roberts |
| 1932 | The Death Kiss | Script Girl |
| 1931 | The Lady from Nowhere | Mollie Carter |
| 1931 | Brothers | Doris LaRue |
| 1931 | Desert Vengeance | Anne Dixon |
| 1930 | The Lash | Lupe |
| 1930 | Tol'able David | Rose Kinemon |
| 1930 | Sunny | Margaret Manners |
| 1930 | The Love Trader | Luane |
| 1929 | Smoke Bellew | Joy Gastrell |
| 1928 | Fashion News | Self |
| 1928 | The Haunted House | Nancy |
| 1928 | The Cavalier | Lucia D'Arquista |
| 1928 | Bitter Sweets | Bett Kingston |
| 1928 | The Port of Missing Girls | Ruth King |
| 1928 | Marry the Girl | Elinor |
| 1928 | The Broken Mask | Caricia |
| 1927 | The Girl from Gay Paree | Mary Davis |
| 1927 | A Man's Past | Yvonne Fontaine |
| 1927 | Mockery | Countess Tatiana Alexandrova |
| 1927 | Backstage | Julia Joyce |
| 1927 | The Notorious Lady | Mary Marlowe / Mary Brownlee |
| 1927 | Life of an Actress | Nora Dowen |
| 1926 | Sunshine of Paradise Alley | Sunshine O'Day |
| 1926 | Devil’s Dice | |
| 1926 | The Sporting Lover | |
| 1926 | Old Loves and New | Marny |
| 1925 | Tumbleweeds | Molly Lassiter |
| 1925 | What Fools Men | Jenny McFarlan |
| 1925 | The Talker | Barbara Farley |
| 1925 | Percy | Imogene Chandler |
| 1925 | The Mad Whirl | Margie Taylor |
| 1925 | Champion of Lost Causes | Beatrice Charles |
| 1924 | Women Who Give | Emily Swift |
| 1924 | Pagan Passions | Shirley Dangerfield |
| 1924 | The Whipping Boss | Grace Woodward |
| 1923 | The Acquittal | Edith Craig |
| 1923 | The Spoilers | Helen Chester |
| 1923 | The Forbidden Lover | Maria Almada |
| 1923 | Souls for Sale | Self - Celebrity Actress in Commissary |
| 1923 | The Tie That Binds | Mary Ellen Gray |
| 1923 | Romance Land | Nan Harvess |
| 1922 | Another Man's Shoes | Mercia Solano |
| 1922 | Arabia | Janice Terhune |
| 1922 | Man Under Cover | Margaret Langdon |
| 1922 | The Power of Love | Maria Almeda |
| 1922 | Alias Julius Caesar | Helen |
| 1922 | Out of the Silent North | Marcette Vallois |
| 1922 | Step on It! | Lorraine Leighton |
| 1922 | Arabian Love | Nadine Fortier |
| 1922 | The Unfoldment | Martha Osborne |
| 1921 | Cinderella of the Hills | Norris Gradley |
| 1921 | The Face of the World | Thora |
| 1921 | The Big Punch | Hope Standish |
| 1920 | The Last of the Mohicans | Cora Munro |
| 1920 | Deep Waters | Betty West |
| 1920 | The Cradle of Courage | Nora |
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