Betty Ross Clarke

Who was Betty Ross Clarke?

Betty Ross Clarke, was an American actress. She appeared in 33 films between 1920 and 1940. Her most noteworthy silent film was the 1920 Fox Film If I Were King with William Farnum. This film is preserved at the Library of Congress.

She was born in Langdon, North Dakota, USA and died in Los Angeles, California.

in the early 1900s she was one of a number of starlets who featured on cards given away by the Hignett cigarette company of England in their CHESS cigarette packets, she was number 29 in the set.

Before her cinema career, Clarke had made her first stage appearance in a stock company at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later stock engagements were at Pittsburgh, Haverhill, Sioux City, Iowa. On Sept. 19, 1917 she made her Broadway debut at the Comedy Theatre in the play The Family Exit playing Evelyn de Gascoigne. During the later course of her movie career she made her London debut June 2, 1924 at the Royalty Theatre in Bachelor Husbands. Other English theatres she played in were the St. Martin's Theatre Dec. 1924 in No Man's Land, The Little Theatre Sept. 1925 in The Monkey Talks and the Prince of Wales Theatre January 1926 in The House of Glass. Later in 1926 Clarke went to Australia and appeared in the play The Ghost Train.