---
name: "Edith Barrett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/edith-barrett"
fi1m_id: "edith-barrett"
imdb_id: "nm0057121"
tmdb_id: 97039
wikidata_id: "Q2067715"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "19 January 1907"
died: "22 February 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:31:44.852309+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Edith Barrett

## Identity

Edith Barrett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edith-barrett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** edith-barrett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0057121
- **TMDB ID:** 97039
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2067715
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Barrett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067715, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057121/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97039

Actor. Born 19 January 1907 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. Died 22 February 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 19 January 1907, Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 22 February 1977
- **Also known as:** Edith Barrett Williams
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Barrett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2067715, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057121/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97039

## Biography

Edith Barrett (born Edith Barrett Williams) was an American actress. She began her stage career in the early 1920s and appeared in numerous Broadway productions through the 1930s, including *Mrs. Moonlight* and *Michael and Mary*.

Her best-known film roles include Mrs. Rand in *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Mrs. Fairfax in *Jane Eyre* (1943), Croisine Bouhouhorts in *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), and Ellen Roberts in *The Ghost Ship* (1943). She also appeared in *The Keys of the Kingdom* (1944) and *Ruthless* (1948).

Barrett was married to actor Vincent Price from 1938 until their divorce in 1948. She retired from films after *The Swan* (1956).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), Fi1m 84, as Mrs. Rand — [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Fi1m 63, as Croisine Bouhouhorts — [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *In Love and War* (1958), as Mrs. Lenaine
- *Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse* (1958), series, Actor
- *The Swan* (1956), as Elsa - Beatrix's Maid
- *Telephone Time* (1956), series, Actor
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Felicia Green, Aggie Whiteford
- *Holiday for Sinners* (1952), as Mrs. Corvier
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as Louisa, Julie
- *The Lady Gambles* (1949), as Ruth Phillips
- *Ruthless* (1948), as Mrs. Burnside
- *That's the Spirit* (1945), as Abigail
- *Molly and Me* (1945), as Julia
- *The Keys of the Kingdom* (1944), as Aunt Polly
- *Strangers in the Night* (1944), as Ivy Miller
- *Jane Eyre* (1943), as Mrs. Fairfax
- *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), as Croisine Bouhouhorts — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md)
- *The Ghost Ship* (1943), as Ellen Roberts
- *I Walked with a Zombie* (1943), as Mrs. Rand — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/i-walked-with-a-zombie.md)
- *You Can't Escape Forever* (1942), as Madame Lucille
- *Get Hep to Love* (1942), as Miss Roberts
- *Give Out, Sisters* (1942), as Agatha Waverly
- *Lady for a Night* (1942), as Katherine Alderson
- *Ladies in Retirement* (1941), as Louisa Creed

## Gallery

- ![Edith Barrett](https://film.one/media/person/1234353/gallery-9ff531984832.png) Edith Barrett — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Edith_Barrett.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Edith Barrett](https://film.one/media/person/1234353/gallery-df9b29f2ed0e.jpg) Edith Barrett — Image via TMDB
- ![Edith Barrett](https://film.one/media/person/1234353/gallery-8fcde98bf2d7.jpg) Edith Barrett — Image via TMDB

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