Victory Bateman

Victory Bateman
Bateman with Viola Dana in Cinderella's Twin (1920)
Born	Victory Creese (1865-04-06)April 6, 1865 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died	March 2, 1926(1926-03-02) (aged 60) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Film actress
Spouse(s)	Wilfred Clarke Harry Mestayer(1900-05) George Cleveland(m. 1910)[1]

Victory Bateman (April 6, 1865, Philadelphia - March 2, 1926, Los Angeles) was an American silent film actress. Her father, Thomas Creese, and her mother, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Creese, were both actors. On stage, Ms. Bateman appeared in the 1900 tour of "The Man From Mexico" and in the 1919 tour of "Seven Days' Leave".

She was born nine days before Abraham Lincoln was assassinated but was named Victory because of the North's eventual win over the Confederate South finishing the Civil War. In the early 1890s she became embroiled in the divorce proceedings of actors Aubrey Boucicault and Amy Busby. Though later exonerated from all involvement in the case Bateman was forced to resign from an all-woman's group called The Professional Woman's League.^[2] At one time she was married to Wilfred Clarke, a son of John Sleeper Clarke. They were separated for many years at the time of the Boucicault trial.^[3] She was also married, in later years, to Harry Mestayer and to George Cleveland. Cleveland was young enough to be her son. She and her last two husbands were eventually involved in the silent film industry.

Filmography

• The Turmoil (1924) .... Mrs. James Sheridan
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924) .... Joan Durbeyfield
• The Eternal Three (1923) .... Mrs. Tucker
• Human Wreckage (1923) .... Mother Finnegan
• Can a Woman Love Twice? (1923) .... Mary's Landlady
• Captain Fly-by-Night (1922) .... Señora
• If I Were Queen (1922) .... Aunt Ollie
• A Girl's Desire (1922) .... Mrs. Browne
• The Idle Rich (1921) .... Mrs. O'Reilly
• A Trip to Paradise (1921) .... Mrs. Smiley
• Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921) .... Mrs. Henshaw
• Beautifully Trimmed (1920) .... Mrs. Calkins
• Cinderella's Twin (1920) .... Ma Du Geen
• The Service Star (1918) .... Aunt Judith

... aka The Flag of Mothers (USA: copyright title)

• Romeo and Juliet (1916) .... Lady Montague
• The Power of Evil (1916) .... Undetermined Role

Margie (played by Florence Lawrence, far right) is loved by both Rob (Owen Moore, on the left) and Orin (Gladden James, right) in this publicity still from the 1912 Victor production "After All." Margie's widowed mother (played by Victory Bateman) stands on the stoop.

• Freckles (1914)
• The Stronger Hand (1914)
• The Thief and the Book (1914)
• The Ring (1914)
• The Ten of Spades (1914)
• The Hendrick's Divorce (1913)
• The House in the Tree (1913)
• Article 47, L' (1913)
• The Lady Killer (1913)
• For Her Boy's Sake (1913)
• The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1913)
• Her Nephews from Labrador (1913) .... The Aunt
• Tangled Relations (1912) .... The Widow, Florence's Mother
• Her Cousin Fred (1912) .... Victory, Fred's Sister
• Nicholas Nickleby (1912) .... Miss La Creevy

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victory Bateman.

• Victory Bateman at the Internet Movie Database
• Victory Bateman at IBDb.com
• Victory Bateman at AllMovie
• portrait
• Victory Bateman, picture gallery 1910 , 1922 University of Washington, Sayre Collection