Caroline Frances Cooke

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(b. Illinois, 29/12/1875 – d. Los Angeles, 08/07/1962). American actress. Sometimes credited as Frances Cooke, this American actress was born on 29 December 1875. She was married to Lorimer Johnston and acted in some 30 of the shorts her husband directed for the American Film Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara. When, late in 1915, he was engaged by I.W. Schlesinger, she accompanied him to South Africa and acted in five of the films he produced for African Film Productions, usually in motherly roles: A Story of the Rand (1916), A Zulu’s Devotion (1916), The Splendid Waster, (1916) Gloria (1916) and Sonny’s Little Bit (1917). After their return to the United States she acted in only two more films, namely James Young’s The Bells (1926) and Rowland V. Lee’s Son of Frankenstein (1939). She died in Los Angeles on 8 July 1962. (FO)


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