---
name: "Etta Lee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/etta-lee"
fi1m_id: "etta-lee"
imdb_id: "nm0497244"
tmdb_id: 1481344
wikidata_id: "Q27984271"
roles: []
born: "12 September 1906"
died: "27 October 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:10:33.882396+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."
---

# Etta Lee

## Identity

Etta Lee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/etta-lee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** etta-lee
- **IMDb ID:** nm0497244
- **TMDB ID:** 1481344
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27984271
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27984271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497244/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1481344

Actor. Born 12 September 1906 in Kauai, Hawaii, USA. Died 27 October 1956.

## Details

- **Born:** 12 September 1906, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
- **Died:** 27 October 1956
- **Also known as:** Etta Lee Frost
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Lee, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27984271, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497244/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1481344

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Thief of Bagdad*](https://film.one/film/the-thief-of-bagdad-1924.md) (82)

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## Biography

Etta Lee, also credited as Etta Lee Frost, was an American actress. She was born Etta Lee Frost on 12 September 1906 in Kauai, Hawaii, and died on 27 October 1956 in Eureka, California. Of Chinese and French descent, she grew up in California, earned a degree in education from Occidental College in Los Angeles, taught briefly in Hawaii, and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Lee appeared in supporting roles in silent films from 1921 to 1935, often in exotic or maid parts. Her credits include *A Tale of Two Worlds* (1921), *The Toll of the Sea* (1922), *The Untameable* (1923), *The Thief of Bagdad* (1924) as Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited), *The Trouble with Wives* (1925), *Camille* (1926), *International House* (1933) and *Clive of India* (1935). She was married to Frank Robinson Brown from 1932 until her death.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Thief of Bagdad* (1924), Fi1m 82, as Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thief-of-bagdad-1924.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Let's Live Tonight* (1935), as Manicurist
- *The Mysterious Mr. Wong* (1935), as Lusan
- *Clive of India* (1935), as Slave Girl
- *Out with the Tide* (1928), Actor
- *The Chinese Parrot* (1927), as Girl in Gambling Den
- *Camille* (1927), as Mataloti
- *The Trouble With Wives* (1925), as Maid
- *Recompense* (1925), as Dancing Girl
- *The Dressmaker from Paris* (1925), as Mannequin
- *The Thief of Bagdad* (1924), as Slave of the Sand Board (uncredited) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thief-of-bagdad-1924.md)
- *The Untameable* (1923), as Ah Moy
- *The Remittance Woman* (1923), as Liu Po-Yat
- *The Toll of the Sea* (1923), as Gossip
- *A Tale of Two Worlds* (1921), as Ah Fah

## Gallery

- ![Actress Etta Lee in costume, holding a drum, looking at an artificial snake coiled on the ground (1923)](https://film.one/media/person/3849778/gallery-516de465d8ff.jpg) Actress Etta Lee in costume, holding a drum, looking at an artificial snake coiled on the ground (1923) — Creator:Paul Grenbeaux, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Etta_Lee_-_Grenbeaux_1923.jpg/1280px-Etta_Lee_-_Grenbeaux_1923.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Etta Lee](https://film.one/media/person/3849778/gallery-dddc6a81fda5.jpg) Etta Lee — Image via TMDB

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