
Irene Rooke
Acting
Biography
Irene Rooke was born on 30 May 1874 in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fanny Hawthorne (1927), Pillars of Society (1920) and Lady Windermere's Fan (1916). She was married to Milton Rosmer and Francis Greppo (actor). She died on 14 June 1958 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
Known For

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
High Treason

A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Hindle Wakes

Early silent version of the Oscar Wilde play.
Lady Windermere's Fan
A woman takes the blame for a murder accidentally committed by her half-sister
The Rosary
John Wynn returns to his family after serving time in prison for a crime they believed he didn't commit, or perhaps for an action they had largely moved past. His return creates a "thread" of tension that threatens to unravel the lives his wife, Amelia, and their children have built in his absence. The film focuses on the emotional and societal adjustments required to reintegrate a disgraced family member into a respectable British household.
Threads
A climber throws his fiancée's blackmailer over a cliff and finds all was a dream.
A Romance of Wastdale

Conniving con artist Mrs Oliver targets the family of Mrs Carruthers, seducing her husband and framing her son for the theft of a valuable necklace. With her family facing ruin and disgrace, Mrs Carruthers resorts to increasingly violent measures to protect them.
Collision

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
The Fruitful Vine
A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?
The Priory School
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Running Water
A man escapes from a revolution in Ruritania and saves his beloved princess from her crooked brother.
The Story of the Rosary
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The Street of Adventure
A sailor saves his fiancée from a Spanish don and is blinded whilst fighting the Armada.
Westward Ho!
In Switzerland an architect and a suffragist schoolteacher fall in love at a TB sanatorium.