Helen Howard

Helen Howard (born Helen Wister Davis) was an American actress who appeared in a string of B-movie westerns in the late 1910s and the 1920s.[1][2]

Helen Howard
Born
Helen Wister Davis

December 29, 1897
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
DiedSeptember 26, 1957
Los Angeles, California, USA
OccupationActress
FamilyDavid Howard (brother)

Biography

Helen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to David Davis and Laurel Hewlett. Her father died when she was young, and she ended up taking her stepfather Charles Howard's surname. As a teenager living in Santa Barbara, California, she began appearing in films made by the local American Film Manufacturing Company, where her older brother David Howard worked as a director.[3]

After AFMC (aka Flying "A") went under in 1921, she and David appear to have both followed the industry to Los Angeles. Helen received much notice from the press for her performance in the 1922 film My Wild Irish Rose, and David went on to direct more than dozens of films in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Little is known about what happened to her after the 1920s.

Selected filmography

References
  1. "Off to Broadway". Los Angeles Evening Express. 8 May 1920. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  2. Lawton Lindsay, Estelle (16 Mar 1923). "The Log of the Good Ship Marriage". Los Angeles Evening Express. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  3. "Santa Barbara Girl in Film at Lloyd's". The Santa Barbara Daily News. 3 Nov 1917. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  4. "Sun Spots". The San Bernardino County Sun. 3 May 1921. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  5. "London Drama to Handle Woman Enigma". Oakland Tribune. 20 Mar 1921. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  6. "Strand Today and Sunday". The San Bernardino County Sun. 23 Oct 1920. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
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