Eugenie Besserer was an American actress who appeared in supporting roles, typically portraying a mother or grandmother, in films of the Silent and early talkies eras.

Eugenie Besserer Biography / Wiki
Name | Eugenie Besserer |
Also Know | |
Gender | Female |
Known For | Acting |
Place of Birth | Watertown, New York, USA |
Date of Birth | 1868-12-25 |
Age(as in 2022) | 65 |
Deathday | 1934-05-28 |
Eugenie Besserer Acting Movies
Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
The Circular Staircase | 1915-09-20 | … | |
The Way of a Woman’s Heart | Rose March aka Rosalind Ayre | 1915-08-30 | While on a tour a theatrical company meets with small success and is forced to close early in the season. Claude Harris and Rose Marsh, two members of… |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Aunt Em | 1910-03-24 | An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel…. |
Scarlet Days | Mrs. Nell Winters aka Rosie Nell | 1919-11-18 | Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Bec… |
When the Night Call Came | Nell Delaney | 1914-06-12 | When the night call came, it found a young woman struggling with great emotions, the better impulses of her sex battling against the perverted sordid … |
Fickle Women | 1920-08-09 | … | |
Indian Summer | Virginia | 1913-05-22 | A Confederate soldier battles with amnesia, vagrants, and tramps as he makes his way back home and to his sweetheart, Virginia…. |
A Just Punishment | Mrs. Preston – Bob’s Wife | 1914-09-23 | Uncle Preston, a financial “wizard,” discovers that his nephew, Bob Preston, is a rogue, a gambler and a swindler, who is promoting a mythical mining … |
Greater Wealth | Mrs. John Sharon | 1913-01-01 | John Sharon, a steel magnate is immensely successful from the worldly point of view, while Ed Young, his humble employee, views himself as a failure b… |
Lilac Time | Madame Berthelot | 1928-10-18 | In France during World War I, a charming farm girl keeps a squadron of English pilots in good spirits as best as she can. She falls for a handsome new… |
The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan | Neva Hyde | 1915-04-11 | A silent American short drama… |
For the Soul of Rafael | Dona Luisa | 1920-05-01 | … |
Seeds of Vengeance | Judith Cree | 1920-08-19 | In the mountains of West Virginia, Alderson Cree is mortally wounded in an ambush by Kip Ryerson, after Kip’s wife, Martha, seeks refuge at the Crees’… |
Twisted Trails | Martha, Housekeeper | 1916-12-11 | Ranch foreman Tom Snow is being hounded by sheriff Luke Fisher and his deputy, Brad Foster. The pair are really cattle rustlers, and they’re trying to… |
Friendly Enemies | 1925-05-16 | As youths, Carl Pfeiffer and Henry Block came to America from Germany. Pfeiffer became a wholesale shoe dealer, while Block became a banker. In spite … | |
The Jazz Singer | Sara Rabinowitz | 1927-10-06 | A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first… |
Anna Christie | Marthy | 1923-11-24 | A troubled young woman comes to live with her estranged father on the New York waterfront. A tough sailor falls in love with her, sparking conflict be… |
Kindred of the Dust | Mrs. McKaye | 1922-02-27 | Discovering that her husband is a bigamist, Nan returns with her child to her Puget Sound logging town. She is treated as an outcast by all save Donal… |
The Circle | Lady Catherine ‘Kitty’ Cheney | 1925-09-22 | A comedic deja vu story of runaway young love…. |
Confessions of a Queen | Elanora | 1925-03-30 | The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Tur… |
The Greatest Question | Mrs. Hilton | 1919-12-27 | Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, “Little Miss Yes’m”, as Nelli… |
Little Orphant Annie | Mrs. Goode | 1918-12-31 | Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The… |
The Sea Flower | Kealani | 1918-12-23 | A secret service agent disguises himself as a sailor…. |
Wandering Footsteps | 1926-06-14 | … | |
Almonds and Raisins | 1985-08-09 | This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in … | |
Thou Shalt Not Covet | My Wife | 1916-02-07 | A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually … |
45 Minutes from Broadway | Mrs. David Dean | 1920-08-01 | Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his … |
Turning the Tables | Mrs. Feverill | 1919-11-02 | Doris Pennington is committed to an insane asylum by her aunt, who hopes to take over Doris’s fortune. Upon arrival at the asylum, however, Doris conv… |
A Lady of Chance | Mrs. Crandall | 1928-12-01 | A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama…. |
The Fire Brigade | Mrs.O’Neil | 1926-12-20 | Terry O’Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that he… |
In Gay Madrid | Doña Generosa | 1930-05-17 | Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to ins… |
Mister Antonio | Mrs. Jorny | 1929-10-15 | Antonio Camaradino, florist and street musician, befriends a man robbed of his overcoat and money in a disreputable bar. Tony recognizes the man as Jo… |
What Happened To Rosa? | Madame O’Donnelly | 1920-12-08 | A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman in an earlier life. The girl begins to live the par… |
The Gift Supreme | Martha Vinton | 1920-03-30 | … |
Thunderbolt | Mrs. Moran | 1929-06-20 | A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and wh… |
Drums of Love | Duchess de Alvia | 1928-01-24 | A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother…. |
A Royal Romance | Mother | 1930-03-17 | A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant “Rusty.” He discovers the ‘hauntee’ to be Coun… |
The Rosary | Widow Kathleen Wilson | 1922-01-16 | After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with only some marshland while his nephew, Bruce Wilton, … |
June Madness | 1922-10-23 | … | |
A Hoosier Romance | The Squire’s Wife | 1918-08-18 | Pretty Patience Thompson, a “girl with a singing soul,” lives with her cold-hearted and avaricious father, Jeff Thompson, on their Indiana farm. Her l… |
The Fighting Shepherdess | Jezebel | 1920-03-01 | A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers…. |
Madame X | Rose, Floriot’s Servant | 1929-08-17 | A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her… |
The Yellow Lily | Archduchess | 1928-05-28 | Archduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving ’em and leaving ’em… |
Speedway | Mrs. MacDonald | 1929-10-07 | Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son si… |
The Eyes of Julia Deep | Mrs. Lowe | 1918-08-01 | The Eyes of Julia Deep is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mary Miles Minter, directed by Lloyd Ingraham. The film is based on the short story… |
The Blacksmith’s Love | Mary Brewer Saunders | 1911-08-16 | The Civil War has begun, and Mace Brewer goes to the front, leaving his young wife alone. His friend, Joe Saunders, also has to leave his aged mother … |
Slightly Used | Aunt Lydia | 1927-09-03 | Slightly Used film… |
Bright Lights | Patsy’s Mother | 1925-11-15 | Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and… |
Seven Faces | Madame Vallon | 1929-12-01 | A 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on Decem… |
Who Shall Take My Life? | Mrs. Munroe | 1917-12-01 | A man is found guilty of murdering a woman by way of circumstantial evidence, and is executed. Afterwards, it is discovered that his supposed victim i… |
The Garden of Allah | Lady Rens | 1916-12-25 | When her mother elopes with a lover and her father dies cursing the name of God, Domini Enfilden attempts to forget her pain in Beni Mora, an oasis in… |
Flesh and the Devil | Leo’s Mother | 1926-12-25 | As lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home following completion of their military training, Leo sees stunning Felicitas at the railway statio… |
Illusion | Mrs. Jacob Schmittlap | 1929-09-21 | A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex–circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudev… |
The Scoffer | Boorman’s Wife | 1920-09-01 | Dr. Stannard Wayne — like all “good” men of the times — is a God-fearing soul. He marries the former mistress of his friend, Dr. Arthur Richards, wi… |
Captain Salvation | Mrs. Buxom | 1927-05-14 | A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community…. |
The Voice That Thrilled the World | Herself (segment ‘The Jazz Singer’) (archive footage) | 1943-01-01 | This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott’s experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from ear… |
The Still Alarm | Elinor Fordham | 1911-05-18 | Mistaken identities and backstabbing partners… |
Beware of Strangers | Mary DeLacy | 1917-02-10 | Beware of Strangers is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Colin Campbell… |
Kiki | Landlady (uncredited) | 1926-04-04 | Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she… |
Molly O’ | Antonia Bacigalupi | 1921-11-19 | An Irish washerwoman’s daughter falls in love with one of America’s most eligible bachelors, much to the dismay of the girl’s parents — and the young… |
When a Man Loves | The Landlady (uncredited) | 1927-08-21 | A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan…. |
The Road Through the Dark | Aunt Julie | 1918-11-01 | Gabrielle Jardee, daughter of a conservative Parisian family, is in love with an American, John Morgan, who her parents disapprove of. She is sent awa… |
6 Hours to Live | The Marquisa | 1932-10-15 | A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that … |
Du Barry, Woman of Passion | Rosalie / Prison Matron | 1930-10-10 | Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position as she saunters through the woods, and attracted … |
To the Last Man | Granny Spelvin | 1933-09-15 | In Kentucky just after the Civil War, the Hayden-Colby feud leads to Jed Colby being sent to prison for 15 years for murder. The Haydens head for Neva… |
Scarface | Citizens Committee Member (uncredited) | 1932-04-09 | A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life…. |
The Skyrocket | Wardrobe Mistress | 1926-02-14 | In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are separated when Sharon is placed in an orphanage. … |
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