1733) Gloria DeHaven

Gloria Mildred DeHaven (1925 – 2016). American actress and singer who was a contract star for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).

DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936) and was then signed to a contract with MGM. 

She was also cast as a singer in many of her films including I'll Get By, So This Is Paris and The Girl Rush. In the 1950s, DeHaven often appeared at the El Rancho Vegas, the first full service hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 

She also appeared in many TV shows as well.

- "Her forte was romantic musical comedy — Technicolor fare in which her golden red hair glistened for the camera..."   https://web.archive.org/web/20160802232553/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/gloria-dehaven-actress-in-1940s-hollywood-musical-comedies-dies-at-91/2016/08/01/de86f874-57ed-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html

1706) Chuck Norris

Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (1940 – 2026). American martial artist, actor, screenwriter, and author. He held black belts in karate, taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and judo. After serving in the United States Air Force, he won numerous martial arts championships and later founded his own discipline, Chun Kuk Do. Norris began working in the American film industry as a martial arts instructor for celebrities before making his screen debut with a minor role in The Wrecking Crew (1968). Friend and fellow martial artist Bruce Lee invited him to play one of the main villains in The Way of the Dragon (1972). While Norris continued acting, friend and student Steve McQueen suggested he take it seriously. Norris took the starring role in the action film Breaker! Breaker! (1977), which turned a profit. His second lead, Good Guys Wear Black (1978), became a hit, and he soon became a popular action film star.

His mother was of Irish ancestry, while his father had German, British, and distant Cherokee roots.

- ""My hair was always this color," Norris says "reddish-brown, and when I did the Bruce Lee movie in '72, `Return of the Dragon,' I looked at my hair and I thought, `That's kind of a bland color. I think I'll dye it blond.' " https://www.roundhouseroulette.com/episodes/b11

- "Chuck Norris’s red hair is not the type where you call him ginger to make him feel upset."   https://ogrenjackson.medium.com/ginger-superstars-e11f23428ff7

1686) Clive Revill

Clive Selsby Revill (1930 – 2025). New Zealand actor, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and television programmes, often in character parts. He was a two-time Tony Award nominee, as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Irma La Douce and Best Actor in a Musical for Oliver! He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972).
His roles also included voicing Emperor Palpatine in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

 

- "Revill was stocky and pugnacious, with a Mr Punch-style nose, piercing blue eyes and red hair..." https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/apr/04/clive-revill-obituary 

 

- "Revill's red hair and distinctive Mr. Punch-like features often saw him cast as comic eccentrics in a number of British films..." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Clive_Revill

 

1685) Samantha Eggar

Samantha Eggar (born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar, 1939 – 2025). English actress.
After beginning her career in Shakespearean theatre, she rose to fame for her performance in William Wyler's thriller The Collector (1965), which earned her a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Eggar later appeared as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle (1967) and the American drama The Molly Maguires (1970). In the early 1970s she moved to the United States and Canada, where she later starred in several horror films, including The Dead Are Alive (1972), The Uncanny (1977) and David Cronenberg's cult thriller The Brood (1979).
Eggar also worked as a voice actress, as Hera in Disney's Hercules (1997) and in several video games, including Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned and 007: Nightfire. Her television work included roles on Fantasy Island and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane in the soap opera All My Children in 2000.

 

- "Such a beautiful and talented actress with the must radiant red hair." https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2122914/dead-cary-grant-co-star

 

- "But when the cinematographer did a black-and-white test of Eggar he also did a color one that captured the magnificence of her red hair and skin." https://themagnificent60s.com/tag/samantha-eggar/

 

 

1682) Pinky Tomlin

Truman Virgil "Pinky" Tomlin (1907 – 1987). American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor of the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to performing in occasional motion pictures, he wrote and published 22 songs, several of which were in the top ten on the "Hit Parade". A song he had written in 1938, "In Ole Oklahoma", was named as Oklahoma's state song by the Oklahoma State Junior Chamber of Commerce.

 

- "Sporting a crop of red hair as a boy, he got his nickname "Pinky" because his fair skin sunburned easily." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinky_Tomlin 

 

1676) Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (1936 – 2025). American actor, director, and producer. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award amd five Golden Globe Awards.
He achieved stardom with Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). His subsequent performances in Downhill Racer (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), and The Sting (1973) established him as one of Hollywood’s leading actors, with the latter earning him an Academy Award nomination.
Redford made his directorial debut with the family drama Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. His later directing credits include The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). A major advocate for independent cinema, Redford co-founded the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival in 1978.
Redford was of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry.

 

- "With Irish red hair and a wrinkled face from a very young age, Redford was perfect in every role..." https://www.unionesarda.it/en/robert-redford-has-died-the-film-icon-was-89-cil09syg

 

- "Redford, with his freckled face and red hair stood out and not just for his striking looks but also for the kind of cinema he was associated to." https://www.wionews.com/photos/rembering-robert-redford-1936-2025-7-films-of-the-iconic-actor-director-that-you-must-watch-1758031548909/1758031548911

 

- " I recall talking to an old friend of Redford’s on the phone once, a guy he used to hang out with in Van Nuys, and this guy told me that Redford’s high-school nickname at the time was “Red.” But eventually he let the blonde thing go. I know that he walked around as a natural copperhead when he was hosting the Sundance Film Festival in the ’90s." https://hollywood-elsewhere.com/robert-redford-james-cagney-no-one-else/

 

 - "My hair was red and unmanageable and I had cowlicks going all over the place. I had freckles and my teeth were too big..." https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/16/style/fashion-robert-redford-intl-scli

 

 

1664) Dorothy Hart

Dorothy Hart (1922 – 2004). American actress, mostly in supporting roles.
In 1946, Hart signed a contract with Columbia Pictures.[ Her first big movie break came, starring alongside Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton in the western Gunfighters (1947).
Hart made Larceny (1948), with Shelley Winters and The Countess of Monte Cristo (also 1948) with Sonja Henie, both for Universal Pictures. She co-starred in The Naked City, starring Barry Fitzgerald (1948) and played the bad girl who double crosses her fiancé in William Castle's Undertow (1949).
She became the tenth actress to portray Jane when she appeared opposite Lex Barker as Tarzan in Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952). Hart also co-starred in Outside the Wall (1950) and I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951), playing a Communist schoolteacher who eventually repudiates the party.
In 1952, Hart left acting to work with the American Association for the United Nations in New York. The organization's first female entertainer, she spoke at the United Nations and was an observer at the 1957-1958 meeting of the World Federation of United Nations in Geneva.

 

- "A beautiful Cleveland native with green eyes and auburn hair..." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-16-me-hart16-story.html

 

1662) Patricia Laffan

Patricia Alice Laffan (1919 – 2014). English stage, film, television and radio actress and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario.
She was the daughter of Irish-born Arthur Charles Laffan and London-born Elvira Alice Vitali.
Laffan is best known for her film roles as the Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis (1951) and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (1954).
She had a sizeable supporting role as Miss Alice MacDonald in 20th Century Fox's CinemaScope mystery thriller 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956). By the 1960s she appeared mainly on radio and television, including performances in Anna Karenina, The Aspern Papers, and Rembrandt, and panel game shows such as Petticoat Line and Call My Bluff. In the late 1960s and 1970s she produced and choreographed fashion shows around the world.

 

- "She was five feet, six inches tall, with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Laffan

 

1661) Jack Warden

Jack Warden (born John Warden Lebzelter Jr, 1920 – 2006). American actor who worked in film and television. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He received a BAFTA nomination for Shampoo, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in Brian's Song (1971).
Warden's breakthrough film role was Juror No. 7, a salesman who wants a quick decision in a murder case, in 12 Angry Men. He also had notable roles in Bye Bye Braverman, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, All the President's Men, The White Buffalo, ...And Justice for All, Being There, Used Cars (in which he played dual roles), Death on the Nile, The Verdict, Problem Child and its sequel, as well as While You Were Sleeping, Guilty as Sin and the Norm Macdonald comedy Dirty Work. His final film was The Replacements in 2000, opposite Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves. 

 

- "The redhead was born September 18, 1920, in Newark, New Jersey, though he spent his childhood in Kentucky." https://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2007-Pu-Z/Warden-Jack.html

 

1626) Van Heflin

Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin Jr. (1908 – 1971). American theatre, radio, and film actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. Heflin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942). He also had memorable roles in Westerns such as Shane (1953), 3:10 to Yuma (1957), and Gunman's Walk (1958).

Heflin was the grandfather of actor Ben O'Brien and actress Eleanor O'Brien. He was also the uncle of Marta Heflin and Mady Kaplan, both actresses, and director Jonathan Kaplan. 

 

- "If you prefer your leading men to be conventionally handsome and “by-the numbers” actors, then Heflin, with his unruly red hair and restless protruding eyes, probably won’t appeal." https://filmstruck.tumblr.com/.../fall-in-love-with-van...

 

 

1617) Madeline Kahn

Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; 1942 – 1999). American actress, comedian, and singer.
She is known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated role in Paper Moon (1973).
Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995).
Kahn was born in Boston, the daughter of Bernard B. Wolfson, a garment manufacturer, and his wife Freda (née Goldberg). She was raised in a nonobservant Jewish family. Her parents divorced when Kahn was two, and she moved with her mother to New York City. In 1953, Freda married Hiller Kahn, who later adopted Madeline; Freda eventually changed her own name to Paula Kahn.

- "She had beautiful skin and auburn hair, high cheekbones." https://moviestvnetwork.com/lists/mel-brooks-remembers-young-frankenstein

- "She was in her early 50s at the time, her red hair was curled and styled, not long..." https://madeline-kahn-being-the-music.blogspot.com/2009/ 

- "In the school-of-Brooks comedy, The Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), directed and starring Gene Wilder, she was a red-haired mystery woman..." https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/dec/06/guardianobituaries2

 

 

1616) Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie (1918 – 2008). Scottish-American actress.
She was born Eileen Isobel Herlihy to an Irish Catholic father, Patrick Herlihy, and a Scottish Protestant mother, Isobel Cowden, in Glasgow, Scotland. She was trained as a theatre actress. Among her West End London theatre successes were The Eagle Has Two Heads by Jean Cocteau. She was married twice, to Philip Barrett (m 1942) and Witold Kuncewicz (m 1951), both marriages ending in divorce. She had no children. In 1955 she moved permanently to the United States, where she lived and worked for the last fifty-three years of her life.
In 1942 she moved to England to work as a professional actress. Her first role in the London theatre in 1942 was as the second Mrs de Winter in Daphne du Maurier's stage adaptation of her own novel Rebecca.
In 1951 she made her first television appearance in the leading role of Regina in a BBC TV adaptation of Lillian Hellman's stage play The Little Foxes.
Herlie's first big film break was being cast by Laurence Olivier in his screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, shot in 1947. She played Hamlet's mother, Gertrude, for the second time. On this occasion, at 29, she was eleven years younger than her 40-year-old stage son (Olivier).
Herlie's other American film appearances in the 1960s were roles in Freud: The Secret Passion (1962), and The Sea Gull (1968), the first major film version in English of Anton Chekhov's celebrated play. (The second was her last feature film.)
In 1955, Herlie made her Broadway debut as Irene Molloy in The Matchmaker (which was later made into the musical Hello, Dolly!). In 1960, she was nominated for a Tony Award as 'Best Actress in a Musical' for Take Me Along, an adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!
In May 1976, Herlie made the move to television soap operas in the role of Myrtle Fargate on All My Children, playing the role for virtually the rest of her life. In the 1980s, Herlie was nominated for three consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards (1984, 1985 and 1986). 

- ”I’m sure Eileen is lighting up the skies in heaven with her flaming red hair and lovely Scottish accent,” says Lucci, who’s also currently a contestant on Dancing With the Stars." https://ew.com/.../soap-watch-amc-stars-remember-eileen.../

 
- "The feisty, flaming red-haired Scot took her first Broadway bow in 1955..." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0379047/

 

1613) Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; 1932 – 2023). American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

She received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. She is also known for her performances as Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and as Catherine Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.

She was born in Detroit, the younger of two children (both girls) of Alfred Jacobs, a furniture dealer, and his wife, Charlotte Sadie (née Alperin) Jacobs. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Poland and her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.

 

- "But it was her red hair, pinup good looks and husky voice — even more than her precocious command of Tennessee Williams — that propelled her to a contract at 18 with Universal International Studios."  https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/10/14/piper-laurie-actress-dead/

 

- "The sun was in back of Piper accenting the copper in her hair. “What a lovely color your hair is,” I commented. “It’s natural,” Piper said, “and at one time was a great problem to me because my eyelashes and eyebrows were red, too, and you couldn’t see them." https://neglectedvenus.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/piper-laurie/

 

- "American actor Piper Laurie, named the prettiest red-head of the year in 1954." https://www.today.com/news/news/piper-laurie-dies-rcna120451

 

- "Piper was a beautiful flame-haired teen living in the heart of the flourishing 1940s Hollywood film industry." https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/07/19/silent-star-the-life-and-career-of-piper-laurie/?utm_content=cmp-true

 

 

1609) William Lucking

William Lucking (1941 – 2021). American film, television, and stage actor, best known for his role as Piney Winston in Sons of Anarchy (2008–2011), and for his movie roles in The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), and The Rundown (2003). He was also known for his portrayal of Col. Lynch in the first season of the 1980s TV show The A-Team.
Lucking graduated from UCLA and the Pasadena Playhouse with degrees in literature and theater. In 1986, with fellow actor and Michigan native Dana Elcar, he co-founded the Santa Paula Theater Center.

- "Stocky, rough-hewn, red-haired actor often seen in biker and hippie films of the late 1960s and early 1970s."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524747/trivia/

- "Besides motorcycle club members, the big & burly Lucking, with his rough-hewn face and red hair, played a slew of sheriffs, detectives, patrolmen..." https://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2021/11/rest-in-peace-william-lucking-big-bill.html

 

1608) Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (1898 – 1968). American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced the sisters to director D. W. Griffith, and they began performing as extras at the Biograph Studios in New York. Dorothy and her sister debuted in Griffith's 1912 production An Unseen Enemy. She would ultimately perform in over 100 short films and features, many times with Lillian.
From 1930 (the beginning of talking pictures) until her death, she only performed in five more movies. Her final film role was in 1963 in the Otto Preminger production, The Cardinal, in which she plays the mother of the title character.
Television in the 1950s, however, offered many stage and film actors the opportunity to perform in plays broadcast live. Dorothy ventured into the new medium, appearing on NBC's Lux Video Theatre on the evening of November 24, 1955, in a production of Miss Susie Slagle's.
In 1920, Dorothy Gish married James Malachi Rennie (1890–1965), a Canadian-born actor who co-starred with her in two productions in that same year. Gish and Rennie remained together until their divorce in 1935. Dorothy never married again.

- "Lillian, a fair, sedate little lass, was delighted when Dorothy arrived—fat, rosy, red-haired—full of fun and mischief, almost from the beginning... Ruddy-haired Dorothy was lovelier than any doll." https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55169/pg55169-images.html

 

1607) Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh (born Mary Warne Marsh; 1894 – 1968). American film actress whose career spanned over 50 years.
Marsh worked as a salesgirl and loitered around the Hollywood sets and locations while her older sister Marguerite worked on a film, observing the progress of her sister’s performance. She first started as an extra in various movies, and played her first substantial role in the film Ramona (1910) at the age of 15.
She then worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith, sometimes appearing in eight movies per year and often paired with fellow Sennett protégé Robert Harron in romantic roles, such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).
March signed a lucrative contract with Samuel Goldwyn after Intolerance, but none of the films she made with him were particularly successful. After her marriage to Lee Arms, a publicity agent for Goldwyn, in 1918, her film output decreased to about one per year.
Marsh returned from retirement to appear in sound films and played a role in Henry King’s remake of Over the Hill (1931). She gravitated toward character roles, and worked in this manner for the next several decades. Marsh appeared in numerous popular films, such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and Little Man, What Now? (1934). She also became a favorite of director John Ford, appearing in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), 3 Godfathers (1948), and The Searchers (1956).

- "The petite, auburn-haired, blue-eyed actress appeared in several films before being cast as Flora." https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mae-marsh/index.html

- "... making a complete contrast to the brilliant shock of Mae Marsh’s red hair and the golflen blonde of Lillian Gish." https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NEL19160101.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

 

1606) Hope Hampton

Hope Hampton (Mae Elizabeth Hampton; 1897 – 1982). American silent motion picture actress and producer, who was noted for her seemingly effortless incarnation of siren and flapper types in silent-picture roles during the 1920s.
She was discovered by U.S. silent cinema pioneer Jules Brulatour while working as an extra for director Maurice Tourneur. She made her screen debut in 1920's A Modern Salome, and went on to feature prominently in several Brulatour-financed films. Her last starring role was in The Road to Reno (1938). In 1923, Hampton wed her manager Brulatour, and they remained married until his death in 1946.

- "She is five feet, three inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, and has auburn hair and dark blue eyes." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hope_Hampton_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg

- "Miss Hampton hastily up her glorious red hair..." https://www.newspapers.com/article/127801467/new-york-tribune/

- "I don't know much about Hope Hampton, except that she was a Texas girl and boasts auburn hair and very blue eyes, and she's one of the most earnest little actresses I've seen for a long time." https://www.newspapers.com/article/85261455/the-bait/

 

1605) Mary Thurman

Mary Thurman (née Christiansen; 1895 – 1925). American actress of the silent film era.
She was one of seven children raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her parents were both Danish.
She attended the University of Utah and became a teacher before turning to acting.
In 1915, she married Victor E. Thurman, son of Utah Supreme Court justice Samuel R. Thurman, but divorced in 1919.
Thurman's film career began with roles in the comedies of Mack Sennett, as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and featured appearances in Bombs! (1916) and The Fool (1925). Her greatest success came when she started working with director Allan Dwan. They collaborated on several critically acclaimed films including The Sin of Martha Queed (1921) and A Broken Doll (1921). Off screen Thurman and Dwan were engaged for several years. She appeared in nearly sixty Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathé Studios.
In 1920 she adopted the Dutch bob hairstyle, thus becoming the first celebrity with the style that became a craze among young fashionable women known as "flappers" during the 1920s and early 1930s.

- "Red-headed former schoolteacher, who was discovered by a Mack Sennett talent scout, while on vacation in California." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862197/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

1604) Stuart Holmes

Stuart Holmes (born Joseph Liebchen; 1884 – 1971). American actor and sculptor whose career spanned seven decades. He appeared in almost 450 films between 1909 and 1964, sometimes credited as Stewart Holmes.
For 20 years, Holmes performed in vaudeville and on stage, with the latter often being in Shakespeare's plays. His work in the theater included a stint in Germany.
Holmes's film career began in 1911 and ended with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
As a sculptor, Holmes created work for at least three California United States post offices — in Oceanside (1936), Claremont (1937), and Bell (1937).

- "Stuart Holmes, whose sardonic smile and auburn hair are looked upon as the last word in aids to screen villainy..." https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuart_Holmes_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg

- "... auburn hair and hazel eyes..."  https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm1929exhi/motionpicturealm1929exhi_djvu.txt

 

1603) Betty Brice

Rosetta Dewart Brice, known professionally as Betty Brice  (1888 –  1935). American actress in many silent films.
After some time on the stage with stock companies, Brice began acting in silent films, under contract to the Lubin studio in Philadelphia.
Films featuring Brice, many of them short films and serials that highlighted Brice's athleticism in stunts, riding, and swimming scenes, included Michael Strogoff (1914), The Fortune Hunter (1914), The Road o' Strife (1915), The Sporting Duchess (1915), The Phantom Happiness (1915), The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch (1915), The Meddlesome Darling (1915), A Man's Making (1915), The Gods of Fate (1916), Her Bleeding Heart (1916), Love's Toll (1916), Loyalty (1917), Humility (1918), and Beau Brummel (1924).

- "A red-haired and green-eyed beauty, she was a star of the early silent film era." https://it.findagrave.com/memorial/138006190/betty-brice

- "Red-haired, green-eyed leading lady, with Lubin in the 1910s." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108503/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

- "A striking young woman with Titian-red hair, green eyes, and a petite 5'6", 124 lb. figure, Miss Brice showed considerable dramatic talent in her youth..." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108503/