Irene Rich

Acting · 0.9 popularity

Age

134

Movies

105

Born: October 11, 1891 – April 22, 1988
From: Buffalo, New York, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies, as well as radio. Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother: She was the mother of Gail Russell's character in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman (1947); in John Ford's cavalry story Fort Apache (1948) she portrayed Mrs. O'Rourke, the wife of Sergeant O'Rourke (Ward Bond). In the 1930s, Rich did much work in radio. From 1933 to 1944, she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized mini-dramas, Dear John (aka The Irene Rich Show). Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon (who later played Lucille Ball's apoplectic boss "Mr. Mooney" on TV). Rich appeared in stage productions, including Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) which starred George M. Cohan, the creator of the play, and later As the Girls Go in 1948. Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard.

Works

105 films

Fort Apache

19487.0

Joan of Arc

19486.2

Angel and the Badman

19476.4

Everybody's Hobby

19396.3

The Mortal Storm

19407.3

The Champ

19317.1

A Lost Lady

192410.0

Defying Destiny

19236.7

That Certain Age

19385.5

Check and Double Check

19305.7

My Official Wife

19268.0

Lady Windermere's Fan

19256.8

Beware of Married Men

19283.7

Dearie

19278.0

Five and Ten

19316.1

Compromise

19257.0

The Trap

19225.8

The Lady in Question

19406.7

So This Is London

19307.0

Keeping Company

19406.7

The Ropin' Fool

19227.0

Wicked

19315.5

Beau Brummel

19247.0

What the Butler Saw

19247.0

The Silver Slave

19279.0

New Orleans

19476.6

Eve's Lover

19257.0

One Clear Call

19227.0

A Law Unto Herself

19189.0

The Silver Girl

191910.0

This Time for Keeps

19428.0

The Honeymoon Express

19268.0

Hollywood Handicap

19384.8

Craig's Wife

19287.0

Beau Ideal

19314.5

The Strange Boarder

192010.0

The Climbers

19279.0

Michael O'Halloran

192310.0

Down To Earth

19327.5

Pal o' Mine

19249.0

Strangers May Kiss

19315.2

My Wife and I

19258.0

Daughters of Desire

19298.0

Three Sons o' Guns

19417.0

Stop Thief

19207.0

Diane of the Green Van

19199.0

This Woman

19249.0

Captain January

19246.8

A Tale of Two Worlds

19216.3

Boy of Mine

19239.0

Godless Men

19204.0

A Woman Who Sinned

19245.0

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

The Yosemite Trail

202610.0

The Call of Home

19228.0

Queen of the Yukon

19406.0

Castles in the Air

1919

Her Mad Night

19323.8

Yesterday's Wife

192310.0

The Right Way

19399.0

Cytherea

19248.0

Snowdrift

19238.0

Father's Son

19319.0

Brass

19235.0

A Fool There Was

192210.0

On Your Back

19308.0

Just Out of College

192010.0

The Perfect Crime

19289.0

Lucretia Lombard

19237.0

Manhattan Tower

19326.0

One Man in a Million

19218.0

Calendar Girl

19475.6

The Exalted Flapper

19298.0

Shanghai Rose

192910.0

Jes' Call Me Jim

19206.0

Rosita

19236.6

Ned McCobb's Daughter

19289.0

Hearts Aflame

19239.0

Don't Tell the Wife

19279.0

The Man Without a Conscience

192510.0

Being Respectable

19249.0

The Desired Woman

192710.0

The Spite Bride

19199.0

The Sneak

19197.0

They Had to See Paris

19296.4

Her Purchase Price

19199.0

A Voice in the Dark

19218.0

The Poverty of Riches

19217.0

Silken Shackles

19268.0

Desperate Trails

19217.0

Dangerous Trails

192310.0

The Pleasure Buyers

19253.7

The Street Called Straight

19209.0

Boys Will Be Boys

19218.0

Water, Water, Everywhere

19207.0

The Blue Bonnet

1919

The Lone Star Ranger

19199.0

Brawn of the North

19228.0

A Man in the Open

191910.0

Women They Talk About

19287.0

Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'

1928

Powder My Back

192810.0

The Girl in His House

191810.0

Wolves of the Night

19197.0

The Mad Parade

19317.0