Lucy Beaumont (actress)

For the 21st-century comedian, see Lucy Beaumont (comedian).

Lucy Beaumont
Beaumont, c. 1930
Born	Lucy Emily Pinkstone (1869-05-18)18 May 1869 Bristol, England
Died	New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1919–1937; her death
Spouse(s)	Captain Arthur Douglas Vigors Harris (his death) William Alfred Beaumont

Lucy Beaumont (born Lucy Emily Pinkstone; 18 May 1869 – 24 April 1937) was an English actress of the stage and screen from Bristol.

Biography

On Broadway, Beaumont played Lady Emily Lyons in The Bishop Misbehaves (1935) and Mrs. Barwick in Berkeley Square (1925). A 1932 revival of Berkeley Square, featuring Beaumont, Miriam Seegar, George Baxter and Henry Mowbray, was staged in San Francisco by Arthur Greville Collins. During the 1914–15 season Beaumont was in My Lady's Dress at the Playhouse in New York. The following season she was featured in Quinneys, for part of the play's run. In 1916 she appeared with Frances Starr in Little Lady in Blue.

Beaumont played mostly mother parts on the screen. Some of her films are The Greater Glory (1926), with Conway Tearle, The Man Without A Country (1925), with Pauline Starke, Torrent (1926), with Ricardo Cortez, The Beloved Rogue, with John Barrymore, Resurrection (1927), with Dolores del Río, The Crowd (1928), with Eleanor Boardman and Maid of Salem (1937), her final motion picture, with Claudette Colbert. Her final professional appearance was in April 1937 on the Robert L. Ripley radio programme.

Beaumont's films spanned a variety of genres.

Personal life

Beaumont was married to Captain Douglas Vigors until his death. She had no children. She died in 1937 at the Royalton Hotel in New York City. She had been in America for 20 years prior to her death.

Partial filmography

• Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U (1919) - Widow Mackey
• Ashes of Vengeance (1923) - Charlotte
• Lucretia Lombard (1923) - Mrs. Winship
• Enemies of Children (1923)
• Cupid's Fireman (1923) - Mother
• The Good Bad Boy (1924) - Mrs. Benson
• The Last of the Duanes (1924) - Bland's Wife
• The Family Secret (1924) - Miss Abigail Selfridge
• As No Man Has Loved (1925) - Mrs. Nolan
• The Trouble with Wives (1925) - Grace's Mother
• Torrent (1926) - Doña Pepa
• The Greater Glory (1926) - Tante Ilde
• Along Came Auntie (1926, Short) - Aunt Alvira
• Men of the Night (1926) - Mrs. Abbott
• The Old Soak (1926) - Mrs. Hawley
• The Fighting Failure (1926)
• Savage Passions (1926)
• The Love Wager (1927)
• The Beloved Rogue (1927) - Villon's Mother
• Resurrection (1927) - Aunt Sophya
• Closed Gates (1927) - Mary Newell
• Stranded (1927) - Grandmother
• The Thirteenth Hour (1927) - Woman strangled at mansion (uncredited)
• Hook and Ladder No. 9 (1927) - Mother Smith
• Outcast Souls (1928) - Mrs. Mary Davis
• Comrades (1928) - Mrs. Dixon
• The Crowd (1928) - Mother
• The Little Yellow House (1928) - Mrs. Milburn
• A Bit of Heaven (1928) - Aunt Priscilla
• The Branded Man (1928) - The Mother
• Stool Pigeon (1928) - Mrs. Wells
• The Greyhound Limited (1929) - Mrs. Williams - Bill's Mother
• Sonny Boy (1929) - Mother Thorpe
• Hardboiled Rose (1929) - Grandmama Duhamel
• One Splendid Hour (1929) - Mother Kelly
• The Ridin' Demon (1929) - Mrs. Riordan
• The Girl in the Show (1929) - Lorna Montrose
• Scarlet Pages (1930) - Martha, Mary's housekeeper(uncredited)
• A Free Soul (1931) - Grandma Ashe
• Caught Plastered (1931) - Mother Talley
• New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931) - Mrs. Dalrymple - Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
• Three Wise Girls (1932) - Mrs. Barnes, Cassie's Mother
• Cheaters at Play (1932)
• Disorderly Conduct (1932) - Mrs. Fay (uncredited)
• State's Attorney (1932) - Member of the Jury (uncredited)
• The Midnight Lady (1932) - Grandma Austin
• Is My Face Red? (1932) - Geraldine Tucker (uncredited)
• Movie Crazy (1932) - Mrs. Hall
• Thrill of Youth (1932) - Grandma Thayer
• His Double Life (1933) - Mrs. Leek
• Blind Justice (1934) - Mrs. Summers
• Temptation (1934) - Headmistress
• Condemned to Live (1935) - Mother Molly
• False Pretenses (1935) - Miss Milgrim
• The Devil-Doll (1936) - Mme. Lavond
• Maid of Salem (1937) - Rebecca - Nurse (final film role)

Sources

• Lima Daily News, "Along Broadway", 3 October 1917, pg 3.
• The New York Times, Lucy Beaumont Dies; Actress Many Years, 25 April 1937, pg. 42

External links

• Lucy Beaumont at the Internet Broadway Database
• Lucy Beaumont at the Internet Movie Database
• Lucy Beaumont (middle) with Marceline Day and John Barrymore in The Beloved Rogue