Winifred Kingston

Winifred Kingston
Kingston featured in Motion Picture Magazine, 1920
Born11 November 1894
Died3 February 1967(1967-02-03) (aged 72)
OccupationActress
Spouse(s)Dustin Farnum (1924-1929, his death)
Carman R. Runyon
Children1

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]

Kingston with husband Dustin in Davy Crockett, 1916.

On February 3, 1967, Kingston died at her home in La Jolla.[7]

  1. ^ Silent Film Necrology p.287 2nd edition c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana
  2. ^ "Winifred Kingston". The Atlanta Constitution. 7 May 1916. p. 9. Retrieved 16 May 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Helen Kingston". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 16 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Dustin Farnum weds again". The New York Times. 25 August 1924. p. 13. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  5. ^ Katchmer, George A. (20 May 2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. pp. 111–112. ISBN 978-1-4766-0905-8. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  6. ^ Winifred Kingston; AllMovie.com; bio by Hans J. Wollstein
  7. ^ a b "Winifred Kingston, Actress, Was Wife of Dustin Farnum". The New York Times. United Press International. 5 February 1967. p. 88. Retrieved 16 May 2021.