Irene Rich

Acting · 1.0 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

A Lost Lady

192410.0

The Champ

19317.1

Defying Destiny

19236.7

Compromise

19257.0

That Certain Age

19385.5

The Trap

19225.8

Check and Double Check

19305.7

Lady Windermere's Fan

19256.8

Five and Ten

19316.1

New Orleans

19476.6

The Silver Slave

19279.0

The Honeymoon Express

19268.0

The Silver Girl

191910.0

So This Is London

19307.0

The Lady in Question

19406.7

My Official Wife

19268.0

Dearie

19278.0

One Clear Call

19227.0

Keeping Company

19406.7

This Woman

19249.0

Diane of the Green Van

19199.0

Beware of Married Men

19283.7

Strangers May Kiss

19315.2

Michael O'Halloran

192310.0

Stop Thief

19207.0

Craig's Wife

19287.0

A Law Unto Herself

19189.0

The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted

19257.0

Daughters of Desire

19298.0

The Strange Boarder

192010.0

A Woman Who Sinned

19245.0

Beau Brummel

19247.0

Down To Earth

19327.5

The Ropin' Fool

19227.0

My Wife and I

19258.0

What the Butler Saw

19247.0

Eve's Lover

19257.0

Three Sons o' Guns

19417.0

This Time for Keeps

19428.0

Beau Ideal

19314.5

The Climbers

19279.0

They Had to See Paris

19296.4

Yesterday's Wife

192310.0

One Man in a Million

19218.0

Hollywood Handicap

19384.8

Wicked

19315.5

Calendar Girl

19475.6

Boys Will Be Boys

19218.0

Her Purchase Price

19199.0

Manhattan Tower

19326.0

Her Mad Night

19323.8

Cytherea

19248.0

The Yosemite Trail

202610.0

The Right Way

19399.0

Pal o' Mine

19249.0

The Call of Home

19228.0

Brass

19235.0

Water, Water, Everywhere

19207.0

Lucretia Lombard

19237.0

Just Out of College

192010.0

Queen of the Yukon

19406.0

Boy of Mine

19239.0

Captain January

19246.8

Rosita

19236.6

A Fool There Was

192210.0

Snowdrift

19238.0

Castles in the Air

1919

A Tale of Two Worlds

19216.3

On Your Back

19308.0

A Voice in the Dark

19218.0

The Pleasure Buyers

19253.7

Don't Tell the Wife

19279.0

Shanghai Rose

192910.0

The Desired Woman

192710.0

Desperate Trails

19217.0

Godless Men

19204.0

The Exalted Flapper

19298.0

Jes' Call Me Jim

19206.0

Being Respectable

19249.0

The Sneak

19197.0

The Poverty of Riches

19217.0

Father's Son

19319.0

The Man Without a Conscience

192510.0

The Street Called Straight

19209.0

The Lone Star Ranger

19199.0

Brawn of the North

19228.0

Powder My Back

192810.0

Silken Shackles

19268.0

The Blue Bonnet

1919

The Spite Bride

19199.0

Hearts Aflame

19239.0

Women They Talk About

19287.0

Dangerous Trails

192310.0

A Man in the Open

191910.0

The Perfect Crime

19289.0

The Mad Parade

19317.0

The Girl in His House

191810.0

Ned McCobb's Daughter

19289.0

Wolves of the Night

19197.0

Irene Rich in 'Lead, Kindly Light'

1928