Winifred Kingston
Acting
Biography
Winifred Kingston was a British-born American silent film actress. Kingston was educated in Scotland and Belgium. She acted on stage in England before she began acting in the United States. On Broadway, Kingston portrayed Crobyle in Thais, Juliette Corton in The Matrimonial Bed, and Helen Farquhar in Caste
Born: November 11, 1894
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Squaw Man
Blamed for the theft of an orphans fund, Captain James Wynnegate flees to the West where he makes a new life with the Indian woman Nat-U-Rich.
Miss Brewster's Millions
Polly Brewster, a penniless Hollywood model/movie extra inherits one million dollars. But her new lawyer, Tom Hancock, informs her that she has to spend it all within 30 days to inherit $5 million more from her spiteful Uncle Ned Brewster who tries to prevent it from happening.
Brewster's Millions
The first movie adaptation of the famous novel where a young man has to spend a fortune on 60 days to inherit an even larger sum of money. Considered to be a lost film.
The Virginian
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
The Call of the North
Graehme, Ned Stewart's father, was accused of adultery and killed being innocent. Ned decided to avenge his father, but got captured and sent to the long journey to death "la longue traverse".
A Son of Erin
Dennis O'Hara is a poverty-stricken Irishman who believes that if he comes to America he will immediately land a job as a policeman. So he manages to scrape together the funds to get him to Manhattan, and leaves his sweetheart Katie O'Grady behind while he makes his fortune. Naturally he discovers that joining the force isn't as easy as he expected, and when he does finally get in, he winds up in trouble because of the graft collections of his boss.
The Boy and the Bridge
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on the Tower Bridge in London. A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a bad brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up housekeeping there. The atmosphere and life around the bridge are a secondary protagonist in the story, introducing several interesting characters.
The Squaw Man
Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.
The Call of the Cumberlands
An aspiring New York painter returns home to the Kentucky mountains to settle a feud between two rival families.
Davy Crockett
The story of the famous Tennessee frontiersman, soldier, scout, and Congressman who fought and died at the Alamo.
Filmography
as Tourist
as Party Guest
as Gold Digger
as Betty Somers
as Viva Newmarch
as Emile de Lesparre
as Majesty Hammond
as Lady Margaret Blakeney
as Hazel Weir
as Greta Glaum
as Molly Gore
as Katie O'Grady
as Buckskin Liz
as Eleanor Vaughn
as Ada Ingot
as Florence Winthrop
as Sally Spicer
as Helen Sherwood
as Ellen Arsdale
as Eleanor
as Allene Houston
as Adele Randall
as Bess Landor
as Molly Wood
as Virginia
as Peggy Gray
as Lady Diana
as Beth Harris