Margaret Campbell was an American

United States

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 character actress in silent film

Silent film

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Career

Born in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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, Campbell had been the leading lady of the Bramhall Players and appeared on Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 in revivals of Hamlet

Hamlet

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 and The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

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 during the early 1910s. Later she followed her husband, German-born actor Josef Swickard

Josef Swickard

Josef Swickard was a German-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America.-Career:...

, into films and was usually cast as rather grand ladies. She retired from the screen at the advent of sound.

Death

In 1939, Campbell was murdered by her son; she was sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death with a hammer. The son was also suspected of having murdered a Russian dancer, Anya Sosoyeva, who was bludgeoned to death, and assaulted the young actress Delia Bogard who survived. He was later cleared of those murders when the actual murderer, De Witt Clinton Cook, was captured by the Los Angeles police force. Both attacks occurred on the Los Angeles City College

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 campus.

Sadly, decades after her brutal death, Margaret Campbell lies under an UNmarked grave at Inglewood Park Cemetery

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 in South Los Angeles

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 community of Inglewood, California

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Filmography

• The Laundry Girl (1919)
• The Price of Innocence (1919)
• Please Get Married (1919)
• Their Mutual Child (1920)
• Notorious Miss Lisle (1920)
• In the Heart of a Fool (1920)
• Lying Lips (1921)
• The Girl in the Taxi (1921)
• Eden and Return (1921)
• Don't Shoot (1922)
• Top o' the Morning (1922)
• Confidence (1922)
• Legally Dead (1923)
• The Clean-Up (1923)
• His Mystery Girl (1923)
• The Dangerous Blonde (1924)
• The Fast Worker (1924)
• The Home Maker (1925)
• The Lady from Hell (1926)
• Monte Carlo (1926)
• The Better Man (1926)
• Children of Divorce
  Children of Divorce
  Children of Divorce is a silent film, directed by Frank Lloyd from an adaptation of Owen Johnson's novel, written by Adela Rogers St. Johns, Hope Loring and Louis D. Lighton.-Plot:...
  
   (1927)
• Wages of Conscience (1927)
• One Hysterical Night
  One Hysterical Night
  One Hysterical Night is an American comedy film directed by William James Craft and starring Reginald Denny, Nora Lane, Walter Brennan and Peter Gawthorne.-Plot:...
  
   (1929)
• Take the Heir (1930)

Stageplay

• Kassa (1909)
• Hamlet (1913)
• The Merchant of Venice (1913)
• Keeping Up Appearances (1917)
• Difference in Gods (1917)
• Keeping Up Appearances (1918)
• The Silent Assertion (1918)
• Lightnin (1921)

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