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Gale Henry (1893–1972)

Actress | Writer | Miscellaneous Crew

Eccentric, big-nosed, lugubrious-faced purveyor of silent screen slapstick, at one time billed as 'the elongated comedienne'. She was even suggested to have served as the model for 'Olive Oyl' of Popeye comic strip fame. An actual cartoon version of her was in fact featured in the British publication Film Fun... See full bio »

Born:

Gale Trowbridge
in Bear Valley, California, USA

Died:

(age 79) in Palmdale, California, USA
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1933 Luncheon at Twelve (short)
Mrs. Greta Van Geldt
 
1932 Mr. Bride (short)
Mrs. Cecil's Daughter (uncredited)
 
1932 Now We'll Tell One (short)
Mortified Vocalist
 
1931 Skip the Maloo! (short)
Miss Henry
 
1929 Darkened Rooms
Madame Silvara
 
1929 The Big Squawk (short)
Leader of Girls
 
1929 The Love Doctor
Lucy
 
1928 All Parts (short)
 
1928 The Wild West Show
Zella
 
1928 Long Hose (short)
 
1927 Stranded
Lucille Lareaux
 
1927 What Women Did for Me (short)
 
1927 Bigger and Better Blondes (short)
 
1927 A One Mama Man (short)
Miss Glutz
 
1927 Two-Time Mama (short)
Nora aka Snoopy, the Maid
 
1927 Break Away (short)
 
1926 Galloping Ghosts (short)
 
1926 Mighty Like a Moose (short)
Wallflower at Party
 
1925 His Wooden Wedding (short)
Woman on Ship
 
1925 All Tied Up (short)
 
1925 Soup to Nuts (short)
 
1925 Youth's Gamble
Winifred Elaine Thomas
 
1925 Declassée
Timmins
 
1925 New Lives for Old
Berthe
 
1924 All Wet (short)
 
1924 Along Came Ruth
Min (hired girl)
 
1924 Open All Night
Isabelle Fèvre
 
1924 Merton of the Movies
Tessie Kearns
 
1924 The Fire Patrol
Alice Masters
 
1923 The Sheik of Hollywood (short)
 
1923 Held to Answer
The Maid
 
1923 Tea: With a Kick!
Hesperis McGowan
 
1922 Quincy Adams Sawyer
Samanthey
 
1922 Night Life in Hollywood
Carrie
 
1922 Easy Pickin' (short)
 
1922 West Is Worst (short)
 
1921 The Hunch
Minnie Stubbs
 
1920 Her First Flame (short)
Lizzie Hap
 
1920 Chicken a la King (short)
 
1920 Don't Chase Your Wife (short)
 
1920 Heirlooms (short)
 
1920 Help (short)
 
1920 Kids (short)
 
1920 The Champeen (short)
 
1920 The Movies (short)
 
1920/II This Way Out (short)
 
1920 What! No Spinach? (short)
 
1919 A Model Husband (short)
 
1919 Wild Woman (short)
 
1919 Her Honor, the Scrublady (short)
The Scrublady
 
1919 Pants (short)
 
1919 Stung (short)
 
1919 The Detectress (short)
Lizzie
 
1918 The Borrowed Baby (short)
 
1918 Butter Again (short)
 
1918 Who's Your Wife? (short)
 
1918 Her Movie Madness (short)
 
1918 It's a Cruel World (short)
 
1918 A Rural Riot (short)
 
1918 Saved from a Vamp (short)
 
1918 Gowns and Girls (short)
 
1918 Nothing But Nerve (short)
 
1918 Cooks and Crooks (short)
 
1918 A Flyer in Folly (short)
 
1918 Who's to Blame? (short)
 
1918 Cave Man Stuff (short)
 
1917 Secret Servants (short)
 
1917 Water on the Brain (short)
 
1917 The Shame of the Bullcon (short)
 
1917 I Quit! (short)
 
1917 The Tightwad (short)
 
1917 The Cross Eyed Submarine (short)
 
1917 Who Done It? (short)
 
1917 The Wart on the Wire (short)
 
1917 Her Naughty Choice (short)
 
1917 The Masked Marvels (short)
 
1917 Marble Heads (short)
 
1917 The Fountain of Trouble (short)
 
1917 Circus Sarah (short)
 
1917 Hawaiian Nuts (short)
 
1917 Nearly a Queen (short)
 
1917 Short Skirts and Deep Water (short)
 
1917 A Gale of Verse (short)
 
1917 Busting Into Society (short)
Lizzie
 
1917 Mrs. Madam, Manager (short)
 
1917 The Vamp of the Camp (short)
 
1917 Back to the Kitchen (short)
 
1917 The Stinger Stung (short)
 
1917 The Soubrette (short)
 
1917 Some Nurse (short)
 
1917 Kitchenella (short)
 
1917 The Twitching Hour (short)
Cleopatra
 
1917 A Burglar's Bride (short)
 
1917 One Damp Day (short)
 
1917 Simple Sapho (short)
 
1917 The Boss of the Family (short)
 
1917 The Last Scent (short)
 
1917 The Man with a Package (short)
 
1917 Left in the Soup (short)
 
1917 Take Back Your Wife (short)
Johns wife
 
1917 The Careless Cop (short)
The Lovesick Suitor
 
1917 A Boob for Luck (short)
 
1917 What the ---? (short)
 
1917/I Whose Baby? (short)
 
1917 Art Aches (short)
 
1917 Wanta Make a Dollar? (short)
Gale
 
1917 Passing the Grip (short)
 
1917 Rosie's Rancho (short)
Rosie
 
1917 Mule Mates (short)
 
1917 Out for the Dough (short)
 
1917 His Coming Out Party (short)
 
1917 Love Me, Love My Biscuits (short)
 
1917 Barred from the Bar (short)
Leader of the Anti-Saloon League
 
1917 Mines and Matrimony (short)
 
1917 When Damon Fell for Phyllis (short)
 
1917 Love in Suspense (short)
 
1916 A Tale of a Turk (short)
 
1916 Jags and Jealousy (short)
 
1916 Their Dark Secret (short)
 
1916 The Tramp Chef (short)
 
1916 Scrappily Married (short)
Mrs. Keen
 
1916 A Janitor's Vendetta (short)
 
1916 Their First Arrest (short)
 
1916 In Love with a Fireman (short)
 
1916 A Shadowed Shadow (short)
 
1916 A Crooked Mix-Up (short)
 
1916 Beans and Bullets (short)
 
1916 Father Gets in Wrong (short)
 
1916 The Inspector's Double (short)
 
1916 Musical Madness (short)
 
1916 In Onion There Is Strength (short)
 
1916 The Deacon Stops the Show (short)
 
1916 The Elixir of Life (short)
 
1916 A Marriage for Revenge (short)
 
1916 You Want Something (short)
 
1916 Soup and Nuts (short)
 
1916 She Wrote a Play and Played It (short)
 
1916 Kate's Lover's Knots (short)
 
1916 I've Got Yer Number (short)
 
1916 She Was Some Vampire (short)
 
1916 The Harem Scarem Deacon (short)
Miss Crobar
 
1916 An All Around Cure (short)
 
1916 Bashful Charley's Proposal (short)
 
1916 The Fall of Deacon Stillwaters (short)
 
1916 Love Quarantined (short)
 
1916 A Dark Suspicion (short)
Mrs. Binks
 
1916 A Stage Villain (short)
 
1916 A Raffle for a Husband (short)
 
1916 A Wife for a Ransom (short)
 
1916 Perfect Match, or: 1 Plus 1 Equals 2 (short)
 
1916 The Jitney Driver's Romance (short)
 
1916/I Hubby Puts One Over (short)
 
1916 His Highness, the Janitor (short)
Lizzie - the Scrub Girl
 
1916 It Nearly Happened (short)
 
1916 Muchly Married (short)
 
1916 Love Laughs at the Law (short)
 
1916 Leap and Look Thereafter (short)
 
1916 Mrs. Green's Mistake (short)
 
1916 Those Female Haters (short)
Widow
 
1916 Lemonade Aids Cupid (short)
 
1915 Stage Struck (short)
 
1915 Slightly Mistaken (short)
Susan, the cook
 
1915 Mrs. Prune's Boarding House (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Kidnapping the King's Kids (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Chills and Chickens (short)
 
1915 His Twentieth Century Susie (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in The Lost Roll (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Pete's Awful Crime (short)
 
1915 A Millionaire for a Minute (short)
 
1915 No Babies Allowed (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Ore Mystery (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 He Couldn't Support His Wife (short)
 
1915 He Couldn't Fool His Mother-in-Law (short)
 
1915 At the Beach Incognito (short)
Mrs. Reggie Astorbilt
 
1915 When Hiram Went to the City (short)
 
1915 The Bravest of the Brave (short)
Mrs. Brown
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 A Dip in the Water (short)
The Wealthy Widow
 
1915 Their Bewitched Elopement (short)
Sally
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Saved by a Scent (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 The Village Smithy (short)
The Village Widow
 
1915 A Duel at Dawn (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Signal of the Three Socks (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Freaks (short)
Yum Yum
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Right Off the Reel (short)
The Wealthy Widow
 
1915 The Wrong Label (short)
Mary Grey
 
1915 When Schultz Led the Orchestra (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 18 Carrot Mystery (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 At the Bingville Booster's Barbecue (short)
Indigestio's Wife
 
1915 A Duke for a Day (short)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 How Billy Got His Raise (short)
The Boss's Wife
 
1915 The Lover's Lucky Predicament (short)
Dolly - the Sheriff's Daughter
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery (short)
Lady Baffles
 
1915 Hiram's Inheritance (short)
Tillie - the Maid
 
1915 The Lady Doctor of Grizzly Gulch (short)
Dr. Helen Hurtmore
 
1915 A Day at the San Diego Fair (short)
Ma Schultz
 
1915 The Runaway Auto (short)
 
1915 Cy Perkins in the City of Delusion (short)
Cy's Daughter
 
1915 Over the Bounding Waves (short)
 
1915 The Fatal Kiss (short)
Mrs. Schultz
 
1915 The Way He Won the Widow (short)
Aggie - the Widow
 
1915 Wedding Bells Shall Ring (short)
Mrs. Richsnop
 
1915 The Rejuvenation of Liza Jane (short)
 
1915 Schultz's Lady Friend (short)
Gail
 
1915 Back to School Days (short)
The Widow
 
1915 The Water Cure (short)
 
1915 Saved by a Shower (short)
 
1915/I Love and Law (short)
 
1915 Fooling Father (short)
 
1915 Won with Dynamite (short)
 
1915 The Plumber Wins the Girl (short)
 
1915 Wanted -- A Piano Tuner (short)
 
1915 The Blank Note (short)
 
1915 He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (short)
 
1915 Fools and Pajamas (short)
 
1915 Hubby's Cure (short)
Mrs. Brown
 
1914 Love Disguised (short)
Mandy's Mother
 
1914 A Dream of a Painting (short)
Mrs. Henry Peck
 
1914 Battle of the Nations (short)
 
1914 The De-feet of Father (short)
Trickie Tread
 
1914 When Their Wives Joined the Regiment (short)
 
1914 Across the Court (short)
Miss Prime
 
1914 Cruel, Cruel World! (short)
 
1914 The Baseball Fans of Fanville (short)
 
1914 In the Clutches of the Villain (short)
 
1914 Jam and Jealousy (short)
 
1914 Oh! What's the Use? (short)
 
1914 Well! Well! (short)
 
1914 The Diamond Nippers (short)
 
1914 What Happened to Schultz? (short)
 
1914 That's Fair Enough (short)
 
1914 Wifie's Busy Day (short)
 
1914 The Polo Champions (short)
 
1914 His Wife's Family (short)
 
1914 Love, Roses and Trousers (short)
 
1914 Captain Kidd's Priceless Treasure (short)
Hezekiah's Wife
 
1914 Love and Electricity (short)
 
1914 The Fatal Letter (short)
 
1914 Universal Ike Junior Is Kept from Being an Actor (short)
 
1914 Schultz the Barber (short)
 
1914 When Universal Ike Set (short)
The Wealthy Widow
 
1914 Universal Ike Has His Ups and Downs (short)
 
1914 The Tender Hearted Sheriff (short)
 
1914 The Chicken Chasers (short)
 
1914 The Midnight Alarm (short)
 
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1917 The Masked Marvels (short) (story)
 
1916 A Raffle for a Husband (short) (scenario)
 
1916 His Highness, the Janitor (short) (scenario)
 
1916 Lemonade Aids Cupid (short) (scenario)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Kidnapping the King's Kids (short) (story)
 
1915 Chills and Chickens (short) (scenario)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in When the Wets Went Dry (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Ore Mystery (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Dread Society of the Sacred Sausage (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Saved by a Scent (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Signal of the Three Socks (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in Baffles Aids Cupid (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the 18 Carrot Mystery (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Sign of the Sacred Safety Pin (short) (story)
 
1915 Lady Baffles and Detective Duck in the Great Egg Robbery (short) (story)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1937 45 Fathers (dog owner - uncredited)
 
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1919 The Detectress (short)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1923 Hollywood
Herself
 
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