Barbara Castleton

Barbara Castleton (September 14, 1894 – December 23, 1978) was an American silent film actress. Castleton appeared in motion pictures from 1914 through 1923, accumulating 28 screen credits.

Career Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Castleton was one of the lower echelon stars who made films for Samuel Goldwyn Studio, along with Cullen Landis, James Kirkwood, and Rowland Lee. The company's major stars were Madge Kennedy, Geraldine Farrar, Will Rogers, and Tom Moore. Her first performance as a film actress came in The Ordeal (1914). She had the lead in Branding Iron (1920), a film directed by Reginald Barker.

Personal life and death Her first husband was George W. Zimmerman, an attorney from Vancouver, British Columbia. Castleton won a divorce suit from Zimmerman in October 1921 in Reno, Nevada. She contended that he gambled and lived beyond his income. The decree was granted on grounds of cruelty.

Castleton was a collector of furniture. In March 1923, she purchased a pair of early 17th century blue velvet armchairs with Van Dyke fringe and a 17th century octagonal walnut center table with an elaborately carved base. The pieces were purchased at the Dabissi sale of fine old furniture held at the American Art Galleries in New York City.

Castleton died in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978.

Filmography

Still from The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921) with Barbara Castleton (left) and Richard Headrick as the child Bobby. YearTitleRoleNotes 1914 The Ordeal Alternative title: The Mothers of Liberty 1916 A Daughter of the Gods1917 For the Freedom of the World Betty Milburn Her Good Name Agnes Gurnee God's Man Bertie On Trial Mrs. Robert Strickland Parentage Agnes Melton Sins of Ambition Ruth Maxwell1918 Empty Pockets Muriel Schuyler Vengeance Lady Elsie Drillingcourt The Heart of a Girl Betty Lansing Heredity Nedda Trevor, as an adult Alternative title: The Blood of the Trevors Just Sylvia Sylvia1919 Peg o' My Heart Ethel Chicester *first filmed version of famous play produced by Famous Players–Lasky. It was never released due to copyright conflict with J. Hartley Manners and his wife Laurette Taylor. Taylor starred in a permitted version in 1922 for Metro Pictures directed by King Vidor What Love Forgives The Silver King The Rough Neck Frances Alternative title: The Roughneck The Man Who Turned White Dangerous Hours May Weston1920 Dangerous Days Audrey Valentine Out of the Storm Margaret Hill The Branding Iron Joan Carver 1921 The Child Thou Gavest Me Norma Huntley1922 False Fronts Helen Baxter What's Wrong with the Women? Janet Lee The Streets of New York Lucy Bloodgood My Friend the Devil Anna Ryder 1923 The Net Allayne Norman