Leah Baird

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Lea Baird, 1923
Lea Baird, 1923

Leah Baird (20 June 1883, Chicago, Illinois - 3 October 1971, Los Angeles, California) was an actress of the silent screen, and a screenwriter. She began her career in 1913 playing several leads in the William F. Brady troupe, opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. In the late 1910s she played in fifteen episodes of the serial Wolves of Kultur. Later, Baird became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. She was married to producer, Arthur F. Beck.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Actress

  • Shadow of a Woman (1946)
  • Busses Roar (1942)
  • Secret Enemies (1942)
  • The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1942)
  • Lady Gangster (1942)
  • Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
  • King Harold (1927)
  • Their Second Honeymoon (1927)
  • The Unnamed Woman (1925)
  • The Radio Flyer (1924)
  • Fangs of the Wolf (1924)
  • The Law Demands (1924)
  • The Miracle Makers (1923)
  • Destroying Angel (1923)
  • Is Divorce a Failure? (1923)
  • When Husbands Deceive (1922)
  • When the Devil Drives (1922)
  • Don't Doubt Your Wife (1922)
  • The Bride's Confession (1921)
  • The Heart Line (1921)
  • Cynthia of the Minute (1920)
  • The Capitol (1919)
  • The Volcano (1919)
  • As a Man Thinks (1919)
  • The Echo of Youth (1919)
  • Wolves of Kultur (1918)
  • Life or Honor? (1918)
  • Moral Suicide (1918)
  • The Fringe of Society (1917)
  • Sins of Ambition (1917)
  • One Law for Both (1917)
  • The Doctor's Deception (1917)
  • A Woman of Clay (1917)
  • Old Faithful (1917)
  • The Devil's Pay Day (1917)
  • A Sunset (1917)
  • Love or an Empire (1916)
  • The Price of Sacrilege (1916)
  • The People Vs. John Doe (1916)
  • The Harbor of Happiness (1916)
  • The Eyes of Love (1916)
  • The Voice Upstairs (1916)
  • The Bond of Blood (1916)
  • Would You Forgive Her? (1916)
  • The Primal Instinct (1916)
  • Lights of New York (1916)
  • A Caliph of the New Bagdad (1916)
  • The Road of Many Turnings (1916)
  • Tried for His Own Murder (1915)
  • A Question of Right or Wrong (1915)
  • Saints and Sinners (1915)
  • The Gods Redeem (1915)
  • The Ruling Power (1915)
  • When Lizzie Went to Sea (1915)
  • Dorothy (1915)
  • The Romance of a Handkerchief (1915)
  • The Dawn of Understanding (1915)
  • The Way of the Transgressor (1915)
  • The Return of Maurice Donnelly (1915)
  • The Radium Thieves (1915)
  • Hearts to Let (1915)
  • For Another's Crime (1915)
  • An Affair for the Police (1914)
  • The Man That Might Have Been (1914)
  • The Senator's Brother (1914)
  • His Wedded Wife (1914)
  • His Dominant Passion (1914)
  • Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds (1914)
  • The Upper Hand (1914)
  • Jim Webb, Senator (1914)
  • When the World Was Silent (1914)
  • The Old Rag Doll (1914)
  • Across the Atlantic (1914)
  • His Last Chance (1914)
  • Love and a Lottery Ticket (1914)
  • On the Chess Board of Fate (1914)
  • Neptune's Daughter (1914)
  • The Silver Loving Cup (1914)
  • The Flaming Diagram (1914)
  • Absinthe (1914)
  • Watch Dog of the Deep (1914)
  • Out of the Far East (1914)
  • Love and a Throne (1913)
  • Mr. and Mrs. Innocence Abroad (1913)
  • Time Is Money (1913)
  • The Child Stealers of Paris (1913)
  • The Anarchist (1913)
  • Ivanhoe (1913)
  • The Kiss of Retribution (1913)
  • The Lady and the Glove (1913)
  • My Lady of Idleness (1913)
  • The Diamond Mystery (1913)
  • The Widower's Quest (1913)
  • The Heart of Mrs. Robins (1913)
  • The Only Veteran in Town (1913)
  • Bunny and the Bunny Hug (1913)
  • Vampire of the Desert (1913)
  • A Soul in Bondage (1913)
  • Hearts of the First Empire (1913)
  • The Stronger Sex (1913)l
  • There's Music in the Hair (1913)
  • Cutey and the Chorus Girls (1913)
  • The Golden Hoard (1913)
  • The House in Suburbia (1913)
  • A Birthday Gift (1913)
  • Red and White Roses (1913)
  • That College Life (1913)
  • When She Was Twenty (1913)
  • The Two Purses (1913)
  • A Woman (1912)
  • Sue Simpkins' Ambition (1912)
  • The Night Before Christmas (1912)
  • A Leap Year Proposal (1912)
  • All for a Girl (1912)
  • Adam and Eve (1912)
  • The Dawning (1912)
  • Lord Browning and Cinderella (1912)
  • The Face or the Voice (1912)
  • The Red Barrier (1912)
  • The Adventure of the Italian Model (1912)
  • An Adamless Eden (1912)
  • The Miracle (1912)
  • The Black Sheep (1912)
  • The Foster Child (1912)
  • The Extension Table (1912)
  • The Gamblers (1912)
  • The Nipper's Lullaby (1912)
  • In the Reign of Terror (1912)
  • The Spider's Web (1912)
  • The Reformation of Mary (1912)
  • Counsel for the Defense (1912)
  • The Way of a Man with a Maid (1912)
  • Working for Hubby (1912)
  • The Old Silver Watch (1912)
  • Mrs. Carter's Necklace (1912)
  • Stenographers Wanted (1912)
  • A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
  • Chumps (1912)
  • The Wooing of Winifred (1911)
  • Jean and the Waif (1910)

[edit] Writer

  • Air Force (1943)
  • Jungle Bride (1933)
  • The Return of Boston Blackie (1927)
  • Stolen Pleasures (1927)
  • Spangles (1926)
  • The False Alarm (1926)
  • Devil's Island (1926)
  • Shadow of the Law (1926)
  • The Unnamed Woman (1925)
  • The Primrose Path (1925)
  • Barriers Burned Away (1925)
  • The Miracle Makers (1923)
  • Destroying Angel (1923)
  • Is Divorce a Failure? (1923)
  • When Husbands Deceive (1922)
  • When the Devil Drives (1922)
  • Don't Doubt Your Wife (1922)
  • Cynthia of the Minute (1920)
  • The Road of Many Turnings (1916)
  • The Kiss of Retribution (1913)
  • The Moulding (1913)
  • A Soul in Bondage (1913)
  • The Stronger Sex (1913)
  • A Woman (1912) (
  • The Dawning (1912)
  • A Humble Hero (1912)

[edit] Producer

  • Shadow of the Law (1926)

[edit] Herself

  • Winning Your Wings (1942)
  • The Great Universal Mystery (1914)

[edit] Death

Baird died of anemia in her Hollywood home. She is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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