Irene Rich
Acting
Born: October 11, 1891 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Died: April 22, 1988 (aged 96)
Highest Rated
Biography
From Wikipedia Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies, as well as radio. Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother: She was the mother of Gail Russell's character in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman (1947); in John Ford's cavalry story Fort Apache (1948) she portrayed Mrs. O'Rourke, the wife of Sergeant O'Rourke (Ward Bond). In the 1930s, Rich did much work in radio. From 1933 to 1944, she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized mini-dramas, Dear John (aka The Irene Rich Show). Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon (who later played Lucille Ball's apoplectic boss "Mr. Mooney" on TV). Rich appeared in stage productions, including Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) which starred George M. Cohan, the creator of the play, and later As the Girls Go in 1948. Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Movies (96)
Fort Apache
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke
The Mortal Storm
Mrs. Roth
Angel and the Badman
Mrs. Worth
Joan of Arc
Catherine le Royer, Joan's friend
The Champ
Linda Carleton
Compromise
Joan Trevore
Everybody's Hobby
Mrs. Myra Leslie
This Woman
Carol Drayton
Hollywood Handicap
Woman at Racetrack
The Climbers
Duchess of Arrogan
Dearie
Sylvia Darling/Dearie
Five and Ten
Jenny Rarick
They Had to See Paris
Idy Peters
Lady Windermere's Fan
Mrs. Erlynne
The Lady in Question
Michele Morestan
The Trap
The Teacher
Keeping Company
Mrs. Thomas
So This Is London
Mrs. Hiram Draper
Down To Earth
Idy Peters
Michael O'Halloran
Nellie Minturn
Strangers May Kiss
Celia
The Strange Boarder
Jane Ingraham
New Orleans
Mrs. Rutledge Smith
One Clear Call
Maggie Thornton
The Silver Slave
Bernice Randall
Yesterday's Wife
Megan Daye
Beau Ideal
Lady Brandon
My Official Wife
Hélène, Countess Orloff
This Time for Keeps
Mrs. Bryant
One Man in a Million
Madame Maureveau
That Certain Age
Mrs. Dorothy Fullerton
Wicked
Mrs. Luther
Beware of Married Men
Myra Martin
Calendar Girl
Lulu Varden
The Honeymoon Express
Mary Lambert
Check and Double Check
Mrs. Blair
My Wife and I
Mrs. James Borden
Rosita
The Queen
Boy of Mine
Ruth Latimer
Beau Brummel
Frederica Charlotte, Duchess of York
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
Mrs. John Mannering
A Lost Lady
Marian Forrester
The Silver Girl
Julia Raymond
Eve's Lover
Eva Burnside
Jes' Call Me Jim
Miss Butterworth
The Ropin' Fool
The Girl
Diane of the Green Van
Keela
Captain January
Isabelle Morton
The Call of Home
Alix Lansing
Stop Thief
Madge Carr
Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig
Just Out of College
Miss Jones
Daughters of Desire
1929
Boys Will Be Boys
Lucy
Queen of the Yukon
Sadie Martin
Three Sons o' Guns
Margaret Patterson
Her Purchase Price
Marda
Manhattan Tower
Ann Burns
Desperate Trails
Mrs. Walker
Pal o' Mine
Julia Montfort
Don't Tell the Wife
Mrs. Cartier
Brass
Mrs. Grotenberg - aka Mrs. G.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Hope Beecher
Father's Son
Ruth Emory
Hearts Aflame
1923
Wolves of the Night
Juanita
Cytherea
Fanny Randon
Snowdrift
Kitty (story)
A Fool There Was
Mrs. Schuyler
A Voice in the Dark
Blanche Walton
The Street Called Straight
Drusilla Fane
Ned McCobb's Daughter
Carol
The Spite Bride
Eileen Moore
The Poverty of Riches
Mrs. Holt
A Man in the Open
Kate
A Tale of Two Worlds
Mrs. Carmichael
The Exalted Flapper
Queen Charlotte of Capra
Lucretia Lombard
Lucretia Morgan
The Desired Woman
Diana Maxwell / Lady Diana Whitney
A Law Unto Herself
Stephanie
Powder My Back
Fritzi Foy
Being Respectable
Suzanne Schuyler
Castles in the Air
Mrs. Owen Pauncefort
The Mad Parade
Mrs. Schuyler
The Pleasure Buyers
Joan Wiswell
Godless Men
'Black Pawl's' Wife
The Lone Star Ranger
Mrs. Laramie
The Blue Bonnet
Martha Drake
Women They Talk About
Irene Mervin Hughes
The Perfect Crime
Stella
Her Mad Night
Joan Manners
The Man Without a Conscience
Shirley Graves
On Your Back
Julianne
Shanghai Rose
Shanghai Rose
Brawn of the North
Marion Wells
The Girl in His House
Betty Burlingham
