Miss Clay Carroll was an actress at the Thanhouser studio in 1916 and 1917.
Clay Carroll
A Thanhouser Company player, credited on one Thanhouser film. No print of it is known to survive.
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Thanhouser films
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From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 105 words.
The New Rochelle Pioneer, December 20, 1916, reported that Miss Clay Carroll, who earlier had worked as an extra in two films elsewhere, had joined Thanhouser as an actress. The account noted she was “a Southern beauty who gives promise of doing some fine work.” An article in The Morning Telegraph, January 14, 1917, described her as a “discovery” of Thanhouser director Frederick Sullivan. Despite this optimistic outlook, Miss Carroll was rarely mentioned in Thanhouser publicity, and it is believed that she was with the company for just a short time.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “CARROLL, Clay.” thanhouser.org/research/people/clay-carroll/