{{short description|American actress}} {{Infobox person |image=Jackie Saunders 1919.jpg |caption=Saunders in 1919 |birth_name=Anna Jackal |birth_date=October 6, 1892 |birth_place= Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |death_date={{death date and age|1954|07|14|1892|10|06}} |death_place=Palm Springs, California, U.S. |resting_place=Welwood Memorial Cemetery, Palm Springs, California |spouse= Elwood D. Horkheimer (1916–1920) 1 daughter <br> J. Ward Cohen (1927–1951) 1 daughter |years_active=1911–1925 |other_names=Jacqueline Saunders }} thumb thumb|'''Drag Harlan (1920)''' '''Jackie Saunders''' (born '''Anna Jackal''';<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waggoner |first1=Linda M. |title=Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star |date=November 2019 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-1811-7 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWazDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Anna+Jackal%22+actress&pg=PA168 |access-date=August 21, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> October 6, 1892 – July 14, 1954) was an American silent screen actress who was one of the major players and stars of Balboa Films.

== Early years == She was born Anna Jackal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}}

== Career == Before joining Balboa in 1914 at age 21, she had been a model and Orpheum Stock Company theater player. She starred in many of Balboa's films during its existence as a film-producing company. In the 1920s and after Balboa folded, she appeared in productions produced by William Fox, Metro Pictures, Lewis J. Selznick, Thomas H. Ince and B. P. Schulberg.

Films that Saunders made for Mutual achieved enough success in Australia that in 1919 a group of businessmen from that country tried to persuade her to make films there.<ref>{{cite news |title=They're after her |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57800375/jackie-saunders/ |access-date=August 21, 2020 |work=The Anaconda Standard |date=March 16, 1919 |location=Montana, Anaconda |page=38|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Her last known film credit was in 1925.

==Personal life== Saunders was married to Elwood D. Horkheimer<ref name="bf">{{cite book |last1=Jura |first1=Jean-Jacques |last2=Bardin |first2=Rodney Norman II |title=Balboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio |date=13 August 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0901-0 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQ9eCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Jackie+Saunders%22&pg=PA118 |access-date=August 21, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> from 1916 to 1920; and they had a daughter, Jacqueline. In 1927 she married J. Ward Cohen. They were wed until his death in 1951 and had a daughter, Mary Ann, who became an actress.{{Citation needed |date=December 2021}}

== Death == Saunders died in Palm Springs, California and was buried at the Welwood Murray cemetery in Palm Springs.{{Citation needed |date=August 2020}}

==Selected filmography== thumb|''The Flirting Bride'' (1916) * ''Through Darkened Vales'' (1911) (*short) * ''The Old Bookkeeper'' (1912) (*short) * ''Fatty and the Bandits'' (1913) (*short) * ''Local Color'' (1913) (*short) * ''The Heart Breakers'' (1916) (*short) * ''The Flirting Bride'' (1916) (*short) * ''The Child of the West'' (1916) (*short) * ''The Shrine of Happiness'' (1916) * ''The Girl Who Won'' (1916) (*short) * ''The Twin Triangles'' (1916) * ''The Grip of Evil'' (1916) * ''Sunny Jane'' (1917) * ''The Wildcat'' (1917) * ''The Checkmate'' (1917) * ''A Bit of Kindling'' (1917) * ''Betty Be Good'' (1917) * ''Bab the Fixer'' (1917) * ''Muggsy'' (1919) * ''Someone Must Pay'' (1919) * ''The Miracle of Love'' (1919) * ''Dad's Girl'' (1920) * ''Drag Harlan'' (1920) * ''The Scuttlers'' (1920) * ''Puppets of Fate'' (1921) * ''The Infamous Miss Revell'' (1921) * ''Shattered Reputations'' (1923) * ''Defying Destiny'' (1923) * ''Alimony'' (1924) * ''Great Diamond Mystery'' (1924) * ''The Courageous Coward'' (1924) * ''Broken Laws'' (1924) * ''Flames of Desire'' (1924) * ''Faint Perfume'' (1925) * ''The People vs. Nancy Preston'' (1925)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0766828}}

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