{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Short description|Australian actress (1896–1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Trilby Clark | honorific_suffix = | image = TrilbyClark1921.tif | caption = Trilby Clark, from a 1921 publication. | birth_name = Gwendolyn Gladys Blakely Clark | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1896|8|30}} | birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1983|7|7|1896|8|30}} | death_place = London, United Kingdom | death_cause = | parents = Mr. Edward Clark and Mrs. O. J. Herbert<ref name=tcmarries>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129203112 |title=Woman's World: Trilby Clark Marries |newspaper=The News |volume=VIII |issue=1,102 |location=Adelaide |date=25 January 1927 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=7|edition=HOME |via=National Library of Australia}}, ''...Miss Trilby Clark. daughter of Mrs. O. J. Herbert and the late Mr. Edward Clark, of Wayville,...word has been received...of her marriage on November 26 to Nicolo Quattrociocchi...''</ref> | spouse = Nicolo Quattrociocchi (married: 1926)<ref name=tcmarries /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129203113 |title=Trilby Clark |newspaper=The News |volume=VIII |issue=1,102 |location=Adelaide |date=25 January 1927 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=7|edition=HOME |via=National Library of Australia}}, ''...Adelaide girl. who recently married Nicolo Quattrociocchi, an Italian film artist whom she met at Hollywood, America...''</ref><br>Ronald ''Ronnie'' Anker-Simmons (married: 1932)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59655111 |title=ABC STARS OF THE AIR: TRILBY CLARK – A "ZIEGFELD GIRL" |newspaper=Kilmore Free Press |issue=3989 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=17 June 1943 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} ,''...Miss Clark made her final, exit from Hollywood when . her bank crashed during the depression, and...lost all her money. 'So she went to England, to start afresh on the stage. Then she met and married Ronnie Anker-Simmons; a nephew of the Marquis of Reading...''</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67928232 |title=Actress Engagement. |newspaper=The Advocate |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=28 May 1932 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}} ''...LONDON, Thursday.-Miss Trilby Clarke, a well-known .Adelaide actress,...is to marry Mr. Ronald Simmons, a nephew of Lord Reading. The marriage will take place at Prince's Row registry office on June 1...''</ref> | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1920s–1930s | relatives = Philip Strange (father-in-law) }} '''Trilby Clark''' (born '''Gwendolyn Gladys Blakely Clark'''; 30 August 1896 – 7 July 1983) was an Australian actress who appeared in British films beginning in the silent film era.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090120060857/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/808571 Trilby Clarke] BFI</ref> She was a leading lady in British films during the 1920s and early 1930s.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136037653 |title=TRILBY CLARK MAKES HER DEBUT. |newspaper=Huon Times |volume=13 |issue=1424 |location=Tasmania, Australia |date=21 March 1924 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158401939 |title=Behind the Silver Sheet: With: Trilby Clark, Australia's 'Golden Apple' Girl|author=Kathleen Ussher |newspaper=Sydney Mail |volume=XXXIV |issue=862 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 October 1928 |accessdate=9 May 2019 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Trilby Clark was born in Adelaide, Australia, and died in London in 1983.{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
==Partial filmography== {{div col}} * ''The Breaking of the Drought'' (1920) * ''Big Dan'' (1923) * ''Hoodman Blind'' (1923) * ''The Lover of Camille'' (1924) * ''Just Off Broadway'' (1924) * ''Silent Sanderson'' (1925) * ''The Bad Lands'' (1925) * ''The Prairie Pirate'' (1925) * ''The Seventh Bandit'' (1925) * ''Satan Town'' (1926) * ''Carry On'' (1927) * ''In the First Degree'' (1927) * ''Maria Marten'' (1928) * ''The Passing of Mr. Quin'' (1928) * ''Chick'' (1928) * ''God's Clay'' (1928) * ''The Devil's Maze'' (1929) * ''The Compulsory Husband'' (1930) * ''Harmony Heaven'' (1930) * ''The Squeaker'' (1930)<ref>{{Citation | title=Marmont and Trilby Clarke in "Squeaker" | journal=Everyones | date=1930-08-27 | volume=11 | issue=549 | pages=38 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233959112 | accessdate=9 May 2019}}</ref> * ''The Night Porter'' (1930) {{div col end}}
==See also== * W. H. Clark (brewer) – Family
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==External links== {{commons category|Trilby Clark}} *{{IMDb name|0164583}}
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