Viola Alberti played important parts in many Thanhouser films during 1911-1912.
Viola Alberti
A Thanhouser Company player, in 2 films you can watch free online.
Watch Viola AlbertiOpens David Copperfield (1911)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
Films you can watch
Other Thanhouser films
- 1912On ProbationLost
- 1912The Taming of MaryLost
- 1912Into the DesertLost
- 1912Miss Arabella SnaithLost
- 1912Why Tom Signed the PledgeLost
These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.
From the encyclopedia
The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 156 words.
Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania in 1874, Viola Alberti was educated in public schools in San Francisco. In her adult life she followed a stage career for five years, retiring after her marriage in 1896. Her screen career may have commenced with Thanhouser, where she was in 1911 and 1912. In autumn 1912 she was with Gem (The Woman in White). The Moving Picture Story Magazine, May 1913, stated that Viola Alberti was a teacher of drama and pantomime. Later, she went to Selig, where in 1915 she wrote the scenarios for and played in When Love Was Mocked, The Eternal Feminine, and other productions. The Studio Directory of Motion Picture News, 1916 (January 29, 1916) noted that she was “now at liberty.”
Note: Her surname was misspelled as “Alberta” in some notices, and her first name appeared as “Ida” in at least one news article.
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, “AKBERTU, Viola.” thanhouser.org/research/people/viola-alberti/