Violet Heming

British actress
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish actress
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasActor Film actor
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Female
Birth27 January 1895, Leeds, United Kingdom
Death4 July 1981New York City, USA (aged 86 years)
Star signAquarius
The details

Biography

Violet Heming (January 27, 1895 – July 4, 1981) was an English stage and screen actress. Born Violet Hemming in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming who appeared in silent films and Mabel Allen. She began a stage career in 1908 while in her early teens and also appeared in her first motion picture, a short film for Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with George Arliss in the play Disraeli.

In September 1925, Variety reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.

Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades, she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.

She died July 4, 1981.

Partial filmography

  • The Woman Hater (1910 short)
  • Tempest and Sunshine (1910 short)
  • Lena Rivers (1910 short)
  • The Mermaid (1910)
  • Paul and Virginia (1910 film)
  • The Running Fight (1915), extant in the Library of Congress
  • The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
  • The Common Cause (1919)
  • Everywoman (1919)
  • The Cost (1920)
  • When the Desert Calls (1922)
  • The Knife (1929 short), made in Fox Movietone
  • The Man Who Played God (1932)
  • Almost Married (1932)
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 04 May 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.