Theda Bara
Known for
Acting
Life
1885 – 1955 (aged 69)
Born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Credits
View on IMDb45 acting credits
Biography
From Wikipedia
Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost because the 1937 Fox vault fire destroyed most of her films.
After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film.
Bara died of stomach cancer in 1955 at the age of 69.
Known For
A Fool There Was
12 Jan 1915
The Unchastened Woman
15 Nov 1925
Cleopatra
14 Oct 1917
East Lynne
18 Jun 1916
Madame Mystery
12 Mar 1926
Kreutzer Sonata
01 Mar 1915
The Casting Couch
01 Jan 1995
The Clemenceau Case
12 Apr 1915
Photos
Filmography
2006
- The Woman with the Hungry Eyesas Archival Footage
1933
- The Film Paradeas (archive footage) (uncredited)
1926
- Madame Mysteryas Madame Mysterieux
1925
- The Unchastened Womanas Caroline Knollys
1919
- Lure of Ambitionas Olga Dolan
- La belle Russeas Fleurette Sackton
- Kathleen Mavourneenas Kathleen Mavourneen
- A Woman There Wasas Princess Zara
- The Siren's Songas Marie Bernais
- When Men Desireas Marie Lohr
- The Lightas Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
1918
- The She Devilas Lolette
- When a Woman Sinsas Lilian Marchard
- Salomeas Salome
- Under the Yokeas Maria Valverda
- The Soul of Buddhaas Bava
- The Forbidden Pathas Mary Lynde
1917
- Madame du Barryas Madame du Barry
- The Rose Of Bloodas Lisza Tapenka
- Cleopatraas Cleopatra
- Camilleas Marguerite Gautier
- Heart and Soulas Jess
- Her Greatest Loveas Vera Herbert
- The Tiger Womanas Princess Petrovitch
- The Darling of Parisas Esmeralda
1916
- The Vixenas Elsie Drummond
- Romeo and Julietas Juliet
- Her Double Lifeas Mary Doone
- Under Two Flagsas Cigarette
- East Lynneas Lady Isabel Carlisle
- The Eternal Saphoas Laura Bruffins
- Gold and the Womanas Juliet DeCordova
- The Serpentas Vania Lazar
1915
- Destructionas Ferdinande Martin
- The Galley Slaveas Francesca Brabaut
- Carmenas Carmen
- Sinas Rosa
- The Two Orphansas Henriette
- Lady Audley's Secretas Helen Talboys
- The Devil's Daughteras La Gioconda
- The Clemenceau Caseas Iza
- Kreutzer Sonataas Celia Friedlander
- A Fool There Wasas The Vampire
1914
- The Stainas Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)