Winifred Kingston Explained

Winifred Kingston
Birth Date:	11 November 1894
Birth Place:	London, England
Death Place:	La Jolla, California
Occupation:	Actress
Spouse:	Dustin Farnum (1924-1929, his death) Carman R. Runyon
Children:	1

Winifred Kingston (11 November 1894 – 3 February 1967)^[1] was a British-born American silent film actress.

Kingston was educated in Scotland and Belgium. She acted on stage in England before she began acting in the United States.^[2]

On Broadway, Kingston portrayed Crobyle in Thais (1911), Juliette Corton in The Matrimonial Bed (1927), and Helen Farquhar in Caste (1927).^[3]

She married actor Dustin Farnum on August 24, 1924, in Los Angeles,^[4] and they had a daughter, Estelle.^[5] Kingston appeared with her husband often onscreen most notably in The Squaw Man and The Virginian.^[6] After Farnum's death in 1929, she was married to oil executive Carman R. Runyon.^[7]

On February 3, 1967, Kingston died at her home in La Jolla.

Filmography

• Soldiers of Fortune (1914)
• The Squaw Man (1914)
• Brewster's Millions (1914)
• The Call of the North (1914)
• The Virginian (1914)
• Where the Trail Divides (1914)
• Cameo Kirby (1914)
• The Love Route (1915)
• Captain Courtesy (1915)
• The Road to Fame (1915 short)
• The Light on the Reef (1915 short)
• The Seventh Noon (1915)
• The Gentleman from Indiana (1915)
• The Call of the Cumberlands (1916)
• Ben Blair (1916)
• David Garrick (1916)
• Davy Crockett (1916)
• The Parson of Panamint (1916)
• The Intrigue (1916)
• A Son of Erin (1916)
• Durand of the Bad Lands (1917)
• The Spy (1917)
• North of Fifty-Three (1917)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917)
• The Light of Western Stars (1918)
• The Corsican Brothers (1920)
• Beyond (1921)
• Trail of the Axe (1922)
• The Squaw Man (1931) (uncredited)
• The Boy and the Bridge (1959)

External links

• • • Portrait gallery (University of Washington)
• Portrait (New York Public Library)

Notes and References

1. Silent Film Necrology p.287 2nd edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
2. News: Winifred Kingston . May 16, 2021 . The Atlanta Constitution . May 7, 1916 . 9. Newspapers.com.
3. Web site: Helen Kingston . Internet Broadway Database . The Broadway League . May 16, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210516004354/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/winifred-kingston-48181 . May 16, 2021.
4. News: Dustin Farnum weds again . May 16, 2021 . The New York Times . August 25, 1924 . 13.
5. Book: Katchmer . George A. . A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses . 20 May 2015 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-0905-8 . 111–112 . May 16, 2021 . en.
6. http://www.allmovie.com/artist/winifred-kingston-p38400 Winifred Kingston; AllMovie.com; bio by Hans J. Wollstein
7. News: Winifred Kingston, Actress, Was Wife of Dustin Farnum . May 16, 2021 . The New York Times . United Press International . February 5, 1967 . 88.