Anna Townsend (January 5, 1845 - September 11, 1923) was an actress in silent films from Utica, New York. She is remembered for playing character parts in films with Harold Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, Harry Carey, and other leading men of the early twentieth century. She came to Los Angeles, California from her birthplace in 1885. By 1913 she was playing small parts in movies The Hoyden's Awakening. Anna played the grandmother in Grandma's Boy, a Harold Lloyd comedy. Anna was a member of the Logan Post of the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand Army of the Republic. Anna Townsend died in 1923 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.G. Schreiber, 2333 West Twenty-first street, Los Angeles. She was taken ill during a trip to Yosemite National Park about two months earlier. She returned home but her health continued to decline. Her funeral was conducted at the chapel of the Los Angeles Crematory on Sixteenth and Grover Streets.
Filmography
- Safety Last! (1923)
- Daddy (1923)
- Dr. Jack (1922)
- Grandma's Boy (1922)
- Three Mounted Men (1918)
- A Marked Man (1917)
- The Real Thing in Cowboys (1914)
- The Hoyden's Awakening (1913)
References
- The Los Angeles Times, Aged Film Actress Is Dead Here, September 12, 1923, Page II10.
