Emily Fitzroy
Acting
Biography
England native Emily Fitzroy was an actress in American films from 1913 to 1944.
Born: May 23, 1860
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Fury
Boy Leyton is second mate on board the Lady Spray, the ship on which his father is Captain Leyton. Boy is often chided by his father for his effeminacy and more often beaten. While in port Boy proposes to Minnie and suggests that she go to Glasgow to meet him there to be married. The ship sails and the Captain learns of his son's intention to marry. He calls him in and tells him about his mother, who deserted him, and tries to turn him away from all women, but Boy refuses to listen. The Captain is suddenly taken ill, but before he dies he makes Boy promise that he will not marry until he has found the man who wronged his mother. The Captain is buried at sea and the ship continues on its course. Upon reaching Glasgow Boy tells Minnie what happened. While at the bar, he meets an old woman who comes in begging. During the conversation he discovers that she is his mother, and he forces her to tell him who her betrayer was. A lost film.
Bardelys the Magnificent
Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
Forever and a Day
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
This first cinematic version of the classic book is a part-talkie, although the only surviving print is silent (housed in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY). It is a straight-forward telling of the intermingled lives of a group of strangers doomed to die in a collapsing bridge accident. The Art Direction, paltry and unremarkable, surprisingly won an Oscar over the far more remarkable work nominated in THE IRON MASK. The special effect scene of the lovers plummeting with the bridge into the chasm is unforgettable and remarkably done.
Way Down East
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Mockery
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
The Man with Two Faces
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a theatrical producer she comes home incoherent and Vance is found dead in the vanished producer's hotel suite.
Lazybones
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
The White Cliffs of Dover
American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Her Night of Romance
An impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
Filmography
as Spinster in Boardinghouse (uncredited)
as Ms. Fulcher
as Rhumba Dancer (uncredited)
as Giraud's Cousin Amelia
as Sister Gilson
as Snooksie
as Guest at Banquet (uncredited)
as Lady Isabella's chaperone
as Old Maid
as Party Guest
as Mrs. Higgins (uncredited)
as Mrs. Victoria Griswold
as Mrs. Van Suydam
as Hattie
as Undetermined Role
as Aunt Lydia Raleigh
as Angela
as The Manor Ghost
as Meta Oliver
as Jane Appleby
as Auntie Janie
as Countess Anastasia Strogoff
as Mrs. Oberlander
as Aunt Ida
as Mrs. Tidmarsh
as Parthenia Ann Hawks
as Marquesa
as Frau Hofrat
as Mrs. Bulkey
as Lady Beekman
as Grand Duchess
as The Porter's Wife
as Mrs. Conger
as Mrs. Gaidaroff
as Mrs. Maggs Duxbury
as Mrs. Blom
as Mrs. Enos
as Mrs. Andiron
as Mrs. Bytheway
as Vicomtesse de Lavedan
as Lady Heriot
as The Dowager (uncredited)
as Cornelia Van Gorder
as Mrs. Iffield
as Mrs. Goodly
as The Housekeeper
as Mrs. Fanning
as Madame Muller
as Aunt Celimena Moore
as Ma MacBirney
as Mrs. Pippy
as Margaret
as Maria
as The Matron
as Rena - Mother in Flashback
as Madame Blanche
as Aunt Virginia
as Meg
as Matilda Heath
as Nurse
as Princess Ardacheff
as Mama Bouchard
as Aunt Isabel
as Emily Ardis
as Kate Comstock
as Mrs. Marlowe
as Amanda Stone
as Amaryllis
as Mrs. Pengard
as Mrs. Carney
as Mrs. Tolliver
as Matilda Brent
as The Marquesa de Lisa (her aunt)
as Mrs. Napoli
as Grace Poole
as A newly rich woman of the West
as Mrs. Crabtree
as Mrs. Van Beekman
as Grace Phillimore
as Mrs. Chardley
as Maria Poole - Landlady
as Rochester's Aunt
as Mrs. Martha Stevens
as Mrs. Hunter
as Martha Galt
as Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy
as Cornelia