Ruth Stonehouse
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ruth Stonehouse.
Born: August 28, 1892
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Known For
Love Aflame
Jack Calvert bets four friends that he can travel from New York to Constantinople without a cent.
The Masked Rider
The setting of the story is Mexico. Violent bandit and cattle rustler Pancho, his rude henchman Santas and a group of raiders have sworn to drive the settlers out of the Border country. In the conflict that follows, Harry's father Bill is mortally wounded, and Pancho's hands are crushed, supposedly by the ranchers, though the act is actually committed by his traitorous and vengeful lieutenant Santas and his equally slimy compatriot Rodriguez, whom Pancho has offended by denying one his daughter's hand, and the other permission to pursue Rancher's daughter Ruth Chadwick. Pancho swears bitter revenge on the Burrels and the two factions resolve to destroy each other.
The Master Mystery
In this action-packed serial, government agent Quentin Locke infiltrates a corrupt patents company, only to run into the gleaming terror of its robot protector, the Automaton. In order to save the beautiful Eva Brent and find a cure for the dreaded Madagascar Madness, Locke suffers an inhuman array of tortures and physical restraints. He is chained, tied with barbed wire, padlocked in a crate and thrown in the water, tied beneath a descending elevator, strapped to an electric chair, and bound in an elaborate Oriental torture chamber.
The Laird of McGillicuddy
Comedy in which Charles retaliates when Louise breaks off their engagement. Louise breaks off her engagement to Charles. Out of revenge, Charles and his friends turn Kees the milkman into a Scottish lord, who is meant to make a big impression at the ball. He dances very rudely with Louise, and out of nervousness admits that he is only a milkman. Charles responds angrily, and pretends that this was a joke that his friends had arranged; he then tries to hit Kees and his friends. Louise stops him, and they kiss, once again in love.
A Wolf Among Lambs
Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run away with him. Valeska, the sister, finds a note on the table the following morning, telling her that Giulia has gone, never to return. Months later, however, Giulia returns to her home, having been deserted by her unfaithful lover. Giulia enters the convent. The sister meets Don Fernando some time later. He tries to influence the girl to marry him. Don Fernando's life is saved by Sister Valencia, who interferes just as Valeska is about to stab the villain. Valeska is later thrown into a dungeon by Fernando, who declares he will '"have her." The pretty Spanish girl does not stay in her prison long. Sister Valencia, discovering Valeska's whereabouts, gets her out of her prison in a clever way. Valeska then enters the convent, where her sister is overjoyed at the happy meeting, and ending.
Dawn and Twilight
A blind violinist's sight is restored by an operation paid for by a young woman who loves him, but the fickleness of fate strikes them further tragic blows.
From the Submerged
A destitute man ready to drown himself is rescued by a caring passing woman. Soon thereafter forgiven by his dying father, he inherits great wealth and becomes engaged to a society woman. When she only laughs at the poor on a slumming trip, he remembers his own past and the woman who saved him.
The Gilded Cage
The Gilded Cage is a simple tale about two sisters: the pampered favorite and the put-upon, younger stepdaughter, played by Stonehouse. When the elder spurns her lover to marry wealth, she learns the error of her ways.
Broken Barriers
A young girl is forced to give up college when her father loses all his money. She soon meets and falls for a young man at a party, only to discover that he's married. As if that weren't bad enough, he is soon seriously injured in an automobile accident, and doctors say that he may never walk again.
Fifth Avenue Models
A model in an expensive clothing shop quarrels with another model, and an expensive gown is ruined. In order to pay for it, she asks her father, an artist, for the money. In order to get the money, the father gets mixed up with art thieves
Filmography
as Claire
as Katherine Warren / Texas Kate
as Mrs. Custer
as Mrs. Fisk (credit only)
as Midge Blair
as Mary Snowden
as Ethel Durland
as 'Hairpin' Annie
as The Wife of Rameriz
as Jacqueline Ray
as Joan Doubleday
as London Hattie
as 'The Lady'
as Nancy Lee
as Ruby Joyce
as Olive Waltburn
as Mary Hogan
as Ruth Chadwick
as Zita Dane
as Jessie Wilcox
as Nancy Glenn
as Hilda Swanson
as Jane Lee
as Betty Mason
as Sylvia
as Cecile, the Woman
as Marguerite Clairon
as Marie
as Stephana Martin
as Princess Kalora
as Helen Darrel
as Kitty Bradley
as Celia Thayer
as The Woman of Mystery
as Mrs. Sloane
as Dorothy Borriegh
as Helen Hamilton
as "The Darling Young Person"
as The Little "He"
as Jane
as Mrs. Dixon - the Wife
as Her Daughter
as His Wife
as Mary Waters
as Harriet Gorman - the Bride
as Bess
as Alice Williams
as Ellen, an heiress
as Mrs. Russell
as Miss Groves
as Mrs. George Watson
as Kathleen Clifford
as Ruth Remington
as Valeska
as Ruth
as 2nd Egyptian Lady
as Charlie's Rescuer