Elinor Hancock

Elinor Hancock, sometimes spelled as Eleanor Hancock,[1] (fl. 1917 – c. 1923) was an American silent film actress active from 1917 through 1923. She mainly played supporting character roles. While she worked for many different studios in Hollywood, she was most active with Paramount Pictures (1917-1920) and Universal Studios (1920-1923).

Career

According to silent film historian Eugene Michael Vazzana, there is no known information about Elinor Hancock's birth or death or background prior to working as a silent film actress.[1] One of her first films was the Triangle Film Corporation movie Master of His Home in which she played the role of Mrs. Drake.[2] In her early career she appeared in several supporting roles for films released by Paramount Pictures; including parts in The Spirit of Romance (1917, Mrs. Rollins),[3] A Kiss for Susie (1917, Mrs. Burnham),[4] The Fair Barbarian (1917, Lady Barold),[5] A Desert Wooing (1918, as Mrs. Bereton),[6] A Petticoat Pilot (1918),[7] Love Me (1918, as Mrs. Appleby),[8] Mirandy Smiles (1918, as Mrs. White),[9] Little Comrade (1919, as Mrs. Hale), and The Rookie's Return (1920, as Mrs. Radcliffe).[10]

Hancock worked for a variety of studios in 1919; appearing as The Dowager Lady St. Aubrey in the The Splendid Sin for the Fox Film Corporation;[11] Mrs. Palmer in Cheating Cheaters for Select Pictures;[12] and as the mother of Jack Holt's character, Roger, in A Midnight Romance for First National Pictures.[13] She also appeared in an uncredited role in The Better Wife (1919) with Clara Kimball Young.[14] In 1920 she worked for Monroe Salisbury's film company as Mrs. Heatherton in the movie The Barbarian,[15] and made two films with Goldwyn Pictures: Out of the Storm (as Mrs. Cutting)[16] and The Cup of Fury (as Mrs. Prothero).[17]

Hancock made several pictures with Universal Studios. Her first film for this organization was A Tokio Siren (1920) in which she portrayed Mrs Chandler.[18] Other silent films she appeared in for Universal Studios included The Rage of Paris (1921, as Mrs. Coolidge),[19] Tiger True (1921, as Mrs. Lodge),[20] The Fighting Lover (1921, as Mrs. Lydia Graham),[21] Playing with Fire (1921, as Mrs. Taylor),[22] The Golden Gallows (1922, as Mrs. Galliner),[23] Forsaking All Others (1922, as Enid Morton),[24][25] and Out of Luck (1923, as Aunt Edith Bristol).[3]

Her other film work included two films for First National Pictures, Not Guilty (1921, as Mrs. Ellison)[26] and The Cave Girl (1921, as Mrs. Georgia Case);[27] the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation film Come On Over (1922, as Mrs. Van Dusen);[28] and the Metro Pictures movie Cordelia the Magnificent (1923, as Mrs. Marlowe).[29]

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Vazzana 2001, p. 225.
  2. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 597.
  3. ^ a b Connelly 1998, p. 203.
  4. ^ Connelly 1998, p. 140.
  5. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 258.
  6. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 206.
  7. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 712.
  8. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 550.
  9. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 615.
  10. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 785.
  11. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 877.
  12. ^ Bogdanovich 1971, p. 181.
  13. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 609.
  14. ^ "Scene still with Lillian Walker, Kathlyn Williams, Irving Cummings, Ben Alexander, Clara Kimball Young, and Elinor Hancock – Photograph". Wisconsin Historical Society. December 1, 2003.
  15. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 45.
  16. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 687.
  17. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 178.
  18. ^ American Film Institute 1988, p. 938.
  19. ^ Connelly 1998, p. 226.
  20. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 813.
  21. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 242.
  22. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 606.
  23. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 303.
  24. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 269.
  25. ^ "Elinor Hancock". BFI. Archived from the original on April 15, 2019.
  26. ^ Connelly 1998, p. 189.
  27. ^ Gevinson 1997, p. 178.
  28. ^ Gevinson 1997, p. 220.
  29. ^ American Film Institute 1971, p. 146.

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