Ruth RolandFilmography

Born:
August 26, 1892 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
The daughter of an actress, Ruth Roland went on the stage herself at the age of three and soon gained some measure of fame in vaudeville as Baby Ruth. By her teens, she was residing with an aunt in Los Angeles and was spotted by a director for the Kalem company, who signed her to a 25...Read More

  • Reno

    Actors: Ruth Roland, Montagu Love, Sam Hardy

    Synopsis: Silent serial queen Ruth Roland made an unsuccessful bid at talking-picture stardom in the low-budget Reno. After six years of marriage to Alexander W. Brett (Montague Love), his wife Felicia (Roland) can stand no more of her husband's brutal bullying. She heads to Reno, establishes the standard Read More

    1930

  • Masked Woman

    Actors: Anna Q. Nilsson, Holbrook Blinn, Charlie Murray, Einar Hansen, Ruth Roland

    Synopsis: The Masked Woman was one of the last screenwriting efforts by June Mathis, who died in 1927. Filmed on location in France, the story concerns a Turkish nobleman, played by Holbrook Blinn, who wants to add Anna Q. Nilsson to his harem. But Nilsson is already married and refuses all of Blinn's Read More

    1927

  • Dollar Down

    Actors: Ruth Roland

    Synopsis: In one of her valiant but unsuccessful attempts to escape the serial grind, action heroine Ruth Roland played Ruth Craig whose wasteful ways almost ruin her family. Although in love with aviator/inventor Grant Elliot (Earl Schenk), Ruth falls in with the wrong crowd and is soon accused of Read More

    1925

  • The Red Circle

    Synopsis: Even as the last chapters of the Pathe serial Neal of the Navy were making the rounds in the neighborhood houses, the studio's newest chapter play The Red Circle was premiering in New York. Ruth Roland -- whose popularity as a serial queen was second only to that of Pearl White and Helen Holmes Read More

    1915

  • The Girl Detective

    Synopsis: Not a continuing serial, The Girl Detective was instead a series of vaguely connected two-reel melodramas (the exact number is unknown) centered around a society girl (Ruth Roland) who obtains a special position within the police due to her unique talents for detective work. A future serial queen Read More

    1915

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