Charlotte Walker

• Name — Charlotte Walker • Birth Name — Charlotte Ganahl Walker • Born — 29 December 1876 • Birthplace — Galveston, Texas, U.S. • Died — 23 March 1958 • Place of death — Kerrville, Texas, U.S. • Resting Place — Old City Cemetery, Galveston County, Texas, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1900–1941 • Children — 2, including Sara Haden

Walker made her stage debut as a teen in 1893. At nineteen 1895 she performed in London, England in a comedy called The Mummy and in the same year performed with Richard Mansfield. Later, she returned to her native Texas after marrying and had two children. In 1900, she made her Broadway debut in Miss Prinnt. She returned to the stage in 1901 and appeared with James A. Herne. She was a leading lady with James K. Hackett from 1901 to 1905. In 1907 she appeared in the Broadway hit The Warrens of Virginia whose cast also had Gladys Smith (later Mary Pickford) and Cecil B. DeMille. She appeared as June in Trail of the Lonesome Pine, in 1911. She would later reprise the role in Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 film Trail of the Lonesome Pine. David Belasco noticed her in On Parole. He signed her for starring roles in plays The Warrens of Virginia, Just a Wife, and Call The Doctor. Each of the Belasco productions was staged prior to World War I. She continued to act on the Broadway stage. In 1923 she played with Ethel Barrymore in The School For Scandal. It was produced by the Player's Club.

Walker married her first husband, Dr. John B. Haden, on November 16, 1896, in New York City. With him she had two daughters, Beatrice Shelton Haden (born 1897) and Katherine Haden (b. 1899), who was known as the actress Sara Haden. After her divorce, she returned to the stage. Dr. Haden died in 1930. Her second husband, Eugene Walter, was a playwright who adapted the novel The Trail of the Lonesome Pine for the Broadway stage. The second marriage also ended in divorce in 1930. Charlotte Walker died in 1958 at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas at age 81.

• Illustration — Pardners (1917) Silent • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1915 — Kindling — Maggie Schultz — Paramount Pictures • Out of the Darkness — Helen Scott — Paramount Pictures • 1916 — The Trail of the Lonesome Pine — June Tolliver — Paramount Pictures • 1917 — Pardners — Olive — Mutual Film Lost film • The Seventh Sin — Margaret Brent / Sally Wells / Molly Pitcher — Triangle Film Corporation • Mary Lawson's Secret — Mary Lawson — Pathé Exchange Lost film • 1918 — Just a Woman — Anna Ward — US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation Lost film • Men — Mrs. Burton — US Exhibitor's Booking Corporation Lost film • Every Mother's Son — An American Mother — Fox Film Corporation Lost film • 1919 — Eve in Exile — Eve Ricardo — Pathé Exchange • 1924 — The Lone Wolf — Clare Henshaw — Associated Exhibitors Lost film • The Sixth Commandment — Mrs. Calhoun — Associated Exhibitors Lost film • Classmates — Mrs. Stafford — First National Lost film • 1925 — The Mad Marriage — Rosemary Films Lost film • The Midnight Girl — Mrs. Schuyler — Chadwick Pictures • The Manicure Girl — Mrs. Morgan — Paramount Pictures Lost film • 1926 — The Savage — Mrs. Atwater — First National Lost film • The Great Deception — Mrs. Mansfield — First National Lost film • 1927 — The Clown — Columbia Pictures • 1928 — Annapolis — Aunt — Pathé Exchange Sound • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1929 — Paris Bound — Helen White — Pathé Exchange • South Sea Rose — The Mother Superior — Fox Film Corporation Lost film • 1930 — Double Cross Roads — Mrs. Tilton — Fox Film Corporation • Three Faces East — Catherine, Lady Chamberlain — First National • Scarlet Pages — Mrs. Mason — First National • Lightnin — Mrs. Thatcher — Fox Film Corporation • 1931 — Millie — Mrs Maitland — RKO • Salvation Nell — Maggie — Tiffany Pictures • 1933 — Hotel Variety — Capitol Film Exchange Lost film • 1937 — Scattergood Meets Broadway — RKO

The authorities additionally record the heading Charlotte Ganahl Walker. Her recorded language was English. She married Eugene Walter. One child is recorded: Sara Haden.