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Violet Horner

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Violet Horner (1892 – 1970) was an American silent film actress.{{Cite web|url=https://travsd.wordpress.com/2019/03/25/violet-horner-didnt-sit-in-a-corner/|title=Violet Horner: Didn't Sit in a Corner|date=March 25, 2019}} She had several starring roles including in one of the Lena Rivers films (based on the Mary Jane Holmes novel) released in 1914 and a series of films made with Billy Quirk for Gem Motion Picture Company including Billy's Adventure.

Her father was an engineer and she spent some of her youth living with him in Brazil. She began her career in theater.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jAXAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22violet+horner%22&pg=RA2-PA125 |title=Motion Picture Story Magazine |date=1913 |publisher=Macfadden-Bartell. |language=en}}

She worked for IMP and Fox Film studios.

Filmography

  • How Ned Got the Raise (1912), an extant film
  • The Man from the West (1912)
  • The Bald Headed Club (1912)
  • A Cave Man Wooing (1912)
  • The Castaway (1912 film)
  • The Bridal Room (1912), as Mary Carter
  • Damages in Full (1913){{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUlJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Violet+Horner%22&pg=RA1-PA23|title=To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette|date=February 25, 1913|publisher=Amer. Company, Limited|via=Google Books}}
  • Billy's Adventure (1913), one in a series of films made by actors Billy Quirk and Violet Horner for the Gem Motion Picture Company
  • Bob's Baby (1913), as Mrs. Robert Waring
  • A Modern Romance (1913)
  • She Slept Through It All (1913)
  • Lena Rivers (1914 Whitman film)
  • The Ring and the Man (1914), as Eleanor
  • Shore Acres (1914){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VjkgAgAAQBAJ&q=%22violet+horner%22&pg=PA430|title=Rex Ingram: Hollywood's Rebel of the Silver Screen|first=Leonhard|last=Gmür|date=November 14, 2013|publisher=epubli|isbn=9783844246018|via=Google Books}}
  • The Garden of Lies (1915), as Jessica Mannering
  • The Stolen Voice (1915), an extant film
  • Tillie the Terrible Typist (1915){{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5bde2e|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225000103/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5bde2e|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 25, 2020|title=Violet Horner|website=BFI}}
  • The Girl from Alaska (1915)
  • The Marble Heart (film) (1916){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zospQ7o5u0oC&q=%22violet+horner%22&pg=PA232|title=The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography|first=Aubrey|last=Solomon|date=January 10, 2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786486106|via=Google Books}}
  • A Daughter of the Gods (1916), as Zarrah
  • The Fighting Chance (1916)
  • Enlighten Thy Daughter (1917), as Mrs. Laurence

References

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External links

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Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:1892 births

Category:1970 deaths