Violet Radcliffe

Violet Bonita 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. One of her best-known roles was as Dirty Face Dan in a number of serials.

Biography According 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.

She played boys role in at least eighteen films between 1915 and 1917. 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. In 1950 she was an inmate in Stockton State Hospital, a mental institution. She died May 4, 1965, in Los Angeles, named Violet Bonita Beiringer.

Selected filmography Treasure Island (1918) The Babes in the Woods (1917) Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (1917) Jack and the Beanstalk (1917) Cheerful Givers (1917) Everybody's Doing It (1916) A Sister of Six (1916) Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916) The Little School Ma'am (1916) Going Straight (1916) Let Katie Do It (1916) Quo Vadis? (1913)