[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Daisy Campbell, English actress born around the mid-1850s. popular on the London theatre from the 1880s. often appeared in films from 1921-1929 usually as an aristocratic white-haired matron, lady or duchess, a great forgotten character star in more than 20 British silent movies, making her film debut as Mrs. Waltham in Denison Clift's “Demos” starring Milton Rosmer for the Ideal Film Company in 1921, perhaps she will be best remembered as Countess of Strangeways in Arthur Maude's “Poppies of Flanders” with Jameson Thomas for the BIP Film Co in 1927, her final screen appearance as Mrs. McPhillip in “The Informer” directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti and Lar Hanson in 1929.
Campbell was also an accomplished writer and screenwriter who wrote under the name Mary O’Connor. Which one of these names may be her real name is a mystery to me.
CAMPBELL, Daisy (aka Mary O’Connor) [185?, England,
U.K. – 19??] – author, writer, theater, film actress.
Hurricane Hutch in Many Adventures – 1924 (Mrs. Mitchell)
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