Violet Radcliffe
Violet Radcliffe (20 August 1904, Niagara Falls - 4 May 1965, Los Angeles) was a child actress active during Hollywood's silent era. She appeared in several dozen films for Fine Arts, Fox, and Pathe, and was frequently cast as a villain or as a little boy.[1][2] One of her best-known roles was as Dirty Face Dan in a number of serials. BiographyAccording to several US censuses, Violet Bonita Radcliffe was born August 20, 1904, in Niagara Falls, New York, to Harry Belmont Radcliffe and Ida F. Davenport.[3][4] However, during her career she was said to be four years younger, resulting in an assumption she was born in 1908.[5] She began performing when she was only two months old, and she was quite young when she appeared in her first film, 1913's Quo Vadis.[6] She played boys role in at least eighteen films between 1915 and 1917.[5] She specialized in comedies and fairy tales in which all the actors were supposedly under the age of ten.[5] She played a series of lovable villains for Majestic, including the character Dan in The Straw Man, Bilie's Goat, The Little Cupids and The Little Life Guard (1915).[5] She then went to Fox role of Al-Talib in Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) and Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1918).[5] She played Prince Rudolpho in Jack and the Beanstalk along Francis Carpenter, Virginia Lee Corbin and Carmen De Rue.[7] She became regular with Carmen De Rue in the Fox Kiddie Features.[8] She left the movies in 1918, aged supposedly ten.[5] Little was known of what became of her after her career in Hollywood ended, and she was assumed to have died in 1926, aged supposedly 18.[4] In 1922, she married Samuel Maddox, and in 1927, Archie Lee Sims, both in Los Angeles; in 1935, Eugene Woodford, in Vancouver, Washington;[4][3] and in 1940, George O. Beiriger, in Las Vegas, Nevada.[9] In 1950 she was an inmate in Stockton State Hospital, a mental institution.[10] She died May 4, 1965, in Los Angeles, named Violet Bonita Beiringer.[4][11] Selected filmography
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