Ida Waterman

{{short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Ida Waterman

| image = A scene from "Lady Rose's Daughter" (SAYRE 13374).jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Waterman, Elsie Ferguson, and David Powell in Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)

| birth_name = Ida Shaw

| birth_date = {{birth date|1852|3|10}}

| birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|5|22|1852|3|10}}

| death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

| othername =

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1880-1926

| spouse = {{plainlist|

• Joseph Francoeur
• Fred Waterman

}}

}}

Ida Waterman (born Ida Shaw; March 10, 1852 – May 22, 1941)[https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA791 Resting Places:The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons by Scott Wilson; Foreword by Gregory William Mank, pages 791–792 c.2016] Retrieved September 1, 2016 was a stage and screen actress.

Waterman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She appeared in some thirty or more Broadway productions between the late 1880s and early 1920s.{{cite web|url=http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/atho/atho.detail.people.aspx?personcode=per0144925 |title=Ida Waterman: North American Theatre Online |publisher=Asp6new.alexanderstreet.com |date= |access-date=2013-09-19}} She played Elise Claremont in the 1889 farce-comedy Our Flat and the following year Mrs. Kirke in Men and Women opposite Maude Adams. In 1899 she was Mrs. Crawley in Becky Sharp (later made into 1934 film Becky Sharp) and in 1922 closed out her Broadway career playing Mrs. French in Lawful Larceny.A History of the New York Stage, Volume 3 Thomas Allston Brown - 1903 - Page 433 (Google Books){{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=64180 |title=Ida Waterman Internet Broadway Database |publisher=Ibdb.com |date= |access-date=2013-09-19}}

Waterman was popular in numerous silent films in the teens and twenties as a supporting elderly actress much like Kate Lester. After decades of being a Victorian and Edwardian stage actress, Waterman moved into silent films in the 1910s.Silent Film Necrology 2nd edition page 544; by Eugene M. Vazzano c.2001Who Was Who On Screen 3rd edition page 749; by Evelyn Mack Truitt c. 1983 She died in 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio.