Portrait of Miriam Cooper

Miriam Cooper

Acting

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miriam Cooper (November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including Birth of a Nation and Intolerance for D.W. Griffith and The Honor System and Evangeline for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1923 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Miriam Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: November 6, 1891

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Filmography

2019
1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

1923
The Broken Wing

as Inez Villera

1923
1923
Is Money Everything?

as Marion Brand

1923
The Hero

as Martha Baker

1922
Kindred of the Dust

as Nan of the Sawdust Pile

1921
Serenade

as Maria del Carmen

1920
The Deep Purple

as Doris Moore

1919
1919
Evangeline

as Evangeline

1919
The Mother and the Law

as The Friendly One

1918
The Prussian Cur

as Rosie O'Grady

1918
The Woman and the Law

as Blanquetta La Salle

1917
The Innocent Sinner

as Mary Ellen Ellis

1917
1915
The Birth of a Nation

as Margaret Cameron

1914
Home, Sweet Home

as The Fiancee

1913
Uncle Tom's Cabin

as Topsy - Aunt Ophelia's Slave

1913
A Railroad Wooing

as Alice Holmes - Jim's Sweetheart

1913
Shenandoah

as Madeline West