Elsie MacLeod

{{Short description|American film actress}}

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| name = Elsie MacLeod

| image = Actress Elsie MacLeod.jpg

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| birth_date = 1890 or 1894

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| othername = Elsie McLeod

| occupation = Film actress

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Elsie MacLeod(1890 or 1894 - date of death unknown), also noted as Elsie McLeod, was an American film actress who worked in Hollywood in the 1910s and early 1920s. She was primarily known for her starring roles in short Edison comedies,{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/63464233/?terms=%22elsie+mcleod%22|title=Theater Manager Finds Cousin|last=|first=|date=23 Apr 1915|website=The Courier-Gazette|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-29}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-YxYZ8trNwC&q=%22elsie+mcleod%22+actress&pg=PA73|title=J.P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood Pioneer|last=McGowan|first=John J.|date=2005-01-01|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1994-4|language=en}} as a co-star in the Bungles Vim Comedy Company series, and for her roles in some of the Hazards of Helen film series episodes.

Biography

According to contemporaneous reporters, Elsie began acting at the age of 5 before going to drama school and honing her craft. She then began performing in vaudeville.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/299238798/?terms=%22elsie+macleod%22|title=Elsie MacLeod's Climb into Filmdom|last=|first=|date=7 Jun 1913|website=The News-Herald|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-29}} She signed with Edison around 1910 and began acting in the studio's short films.

She was in the Bungles film series.{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDZ1DwAAQBAJ&dq=elsie.mcleod&pg=PT514 | title=Lame Brains and Lunatics | last1=Massa | first1=Steve | date=7 May 2013 }}

Selected filmography

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