Belle Adair (actress)

Belle Louise Adair was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She also performed on stage and in vaudeville.^[2]

Belle Adair
Adair, c. 1914
Born	Belle Louise Adair (1889-02-07)February 7, 1889 San Jose, California, U.S.
Died	May 4, 1926(1926-05-04) (aged 37) Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
Burial place	Glens Falls Cemetery, Glens Falls, New York[1]
Other names	Belle Adair Buchal
Education	Brooklyn Teachers Training College
Spouse	Ewald F. Buchal

Biography

Adair was born in San Jose, California, but moved from there at age 4.^[2] She was educated at Immaculate Heart convent in Locust Gap, Pennsylvania,^[3] and moved to New York City to study at Brooklyn Teachers Training College.

Two days after she left Immaculate Heart, she debuted in an amateur performance on a U. S. Naval Reserve boat on which her brother served. Her vaudeville debut came at Poli's Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1912, she performed as a singing comedienne at the Orpheum Theatre in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.^[3]

While in New York she appeared in several films before marrying Ewald F. Buchal of Passaic, New Jersey. She died in 1926 after a period of poor health.^[4][5]

Selected filmography

• The Burden Bearer (1915)
• For the Mastery of the World (1914)
• Man of the Hour (1914)
• Mother (1914)
• Son (1914)
• Adventures in Diplomacy (1914)
• Boy (1914)
• The Character Woman (1914)
• Moonlight (1914)
• Duty (1914)
• The Greatest of These (1914)
• Wife (1914)
• The Drug Traffic (1914)
• At the Court of Prince Make Believe (1914)
• The Diamond Master (1914)
• The Good in the Worst of Us (1914)
• Coming Home (1914)
• The Case of Cherry Purcelle (1914)
• Cue and Mis-Cue (1914)