Lucy Beaumont

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Lucy Beaumont (May 18, 1873 - April 24, 1937) was an English actress of the stage and screen from Bristol, England. She was the daughter of Sir Albert and Helen Coles. She was educated at Young Ladies College in Bath, England.

On the American stage Lucy played opposite Walter Connolly in The Bishop Misbehaves and Leslie Howard in Berkeley Square. Later she appeared in the motion picture version of Berkeley Square. During the 1914-1915 season Beaumont was in My Lady's Dress at the Playhouse in New York City. The following season she was featured in Quinneys, for part of the play's run. In 1916 she appeared with Frances Starr in Little Lady in Blue.

Miss Beaumont played mostly mother parts on the screen. Some of her motion pictures are The Greater Glory (1926), with Conway Tearle, The Man Without A Country (1925), with Pauline Starke, Torrent (1926), with Ricardo Cortez, The Beloved Rogue, with John Barrymore, Resurrection (1927), with Dolores del Rio, The Crowd (1928), with Eleanor Boardman, and Maid of Salem (1937), (her final motion picture), with Claudette Colbert.

Lucy Beaumont was married to Captain Douglas Arthur Harris. Her final professional appearance was in April 1937 on the Robert L. Ripley radio program. She died in 1937 at the Hotel Royalton, 44 West Forty-fourth Street, New York City. She had been in America for twenty years prior to her death.