Dorothy Bernard

Nora Dorothy Bernard (June 25, 1890 to William H Bernard and Roy Elizabeth Ayrd. Her father was from Auckland, New Zealand, and her mother was born in Sligo, Ireland. (Bernard said that her father "was English and partly Jewish" and her mother was Scotch-Irish.) Her grandfather was Joseph Bernard Simmons, drama critic for The Times of London.

Personal life and death She was married to actor A.H. Van Buren on July 5, 1909, in Washington D.C., and they had a daughter named Marjorie "Midge" Van Buren born in Jamaica, New York.

Bernard died of a heart attack at her Hollywood home on December 15, 1955, aged 65.

Selected filmography

A Woman's Way (1908) An Awful Moment (1908) The Cord of Life (1909) The Girls and Daddy (1909) The Woman from Mellon's (1910) A Flash of Light (1910) Ramona (1910) The Two Paths (1911) His Trust Fulfilled (1911) His Trust (1911) For His Son (1912) The Root of Evil (1912) A Sister's Love (1912) A String of Pearls (1912) The Girl and Her Trust (1912) The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912) One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912) An Outcast Among Outcasts (1912) The House of Darkness (1913) The Sheriff's Baby (1913) Near to Earth (1913) A Chance Deception (1913) The Little Tease (1913) The Song of Hate (1915) The Little Gypsy (1915) A Soldier's Oath (1915) A Man of Sorrow (1916) The Bondman (1916) The Final Payment (1917) The Rainbow (1917) The Accomplice (1917) Little Women (1918) The Great Shadow (1920)