Gene Gauntier

Gene Gauntier, born Eugenia Gauntier Liggett, was an American screenwriter, director and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 31 films.

Cast

Ben Hur

Dust of the Desert

An Arabian Tragedy

(Lucashah / Ayub's 1st Wife)

A Prisoner of the Harem

(Alice Durand)

The Shaughraun

(Claire Ffoliott)

Skyscrapers

Betrayed by a Handprint

(Party Guest)

Gene of the Northland

(Jeanne La Roche)

The Taming of the Shrew

(Wedding Party)

From the Manger to the Cross

(Mary)

Thompson's Night Out

(Mrs. Smith)

The Man in the Box

(Gang Member)

The Stage Rustler

The Girl and the Outlaw

(Nellie Carson (unconfirmed))

The Little Spreewald Maiden

(Frieda - the Spreewald Maiden)

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

(Nan, The Girl Spy)

For Love of an Enemy

(Hallie Colburn)

The Lad from Old Ireland

(Aileene)

You Remember Ellen

(Ellen)

The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged

(Anastasia)

When the Dead Return

(Marcele)

A Slave to Drink

(Jenny)

Evangeline

(Evangeline)

The Colleen Bawn

(Eily O'Connor, the 'Colleen Bawn')

Way Down East

The Stepmother

The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War

(Nan)

The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy

(Nan)

When Lovers Part

Her Chum’s Brother

The Fiddler’s Requiem

(Dolores)

The Little Soldier of ’64

Rory O'More

(Kathleen)

A Sawmill Hero

(Jennie)

Captured by Bedouins

(Doris Barnett)

Winning a Widow

(An American Widow)

Come Back to Erin

(Peggy O'Malley)

For Ireland's Sake

(Eileen Donaghue)

His Mother

(Miss Foster - the Banker's Daughter)

The Special Messenger

(Nancy)

The Scarlet Letter

(Hester Prynne)

The Romance of a Trained Nurse

The Navajo's Bride

Tragedy of the Desert

(Miriam — the Doctor's Wife)

The Irish Honeymoon

(Maggie McClusky)

The Wives of Jamestown

(Lady Geraldine)

Lady Peggy’s Escape

(Lady Peggy)

The Eye of the Government