---
name: "Margery Wilson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/margery-wilson"
fi1m_id: "margery-wilson"
imdb_id: "nm0933805"
tmdb_id: 29957
wikidata_id: "Q4111550"
roles: []
born: "30 October 1896"
died: "21 January 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T23:27:43.535055+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."
---

# Margery Wilson

## Identity

Margery Wilson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/margery-wilson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** margery-wilson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0933805
- **TMDB ID:** 29957
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4111550
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4111550, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933805/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29957

Actor. Born 30 October 1896 in Gracey, Kentucky, USA. Died 21 January 1986.

## Details

- **Born:** 30 October 1896, Gracey, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 21 January 1986
- **Also known as:** Marguery Wilson, Sara Barker Strayer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Wilson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4111550, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0933805/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29957

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages*](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Margery Wilson (born Sara Barker Strayer) was an American actress, screenwriter and film director. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1914 and 1939, often in leading roles.

She is best known for her performance as Brown Eyes in D. W. Griffith’s *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916). Wilson was one of the earliest women directors in Hollywood; her directing, writing and producing work, which included *That Something* (1920) and *Insinuation* (1922), took place mainly between 1920 and 1924. After retiring from acting she wrote numerous self-help books and taught diction to actors.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, latimes.com, catalog.afi.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), Fi1m 83, as Brown Eyes (French Story) — [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

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

- *Insinuation* (1922), as Mary Wright · Director, Writer
- *The Offenders* (1922), as The Girl · Director
- *The House of Whispers* (1920), as Clara Bradford
- *That Something* (1920), as Sarah Holmes · Director
- *The Blooming Angel* (1920), as Carlotta
- *Desert Gold* (1919), as Mercedes Castenada
- *Crooked Straight* (1919), as Vera Owen
- *Venus in the East* (1919), as Martha
- *Marked Cards* (1918), as Ellen Shannon
- *The Hand at the Window* (1918), as Laura Bowers
- *The Flames of Chance* (1918), as Jeanette Gontreau
- *Without Honor* (1918), as Jeanie McGregor
- *Wild Sumac* (1917), as Wild Sumac
- *Mountain Dew* (1917), as Roxie Bradley
- *The Mother Instinct* (1917), as Marie Coutierre
- *The Clodhopper* (1917), as Mary Martin
- *Wolf Lowry* (1917), as Mary Davis
- *The Desert Man* (1917), as Jennie
- *The Last of the Ingrams* (1917), as Mercy Reed
- *The Gun Fighter* (1917), as Norma Wright
- *The Bride of Hate* (1917), as Mercedes Mendoza
- *The Honorable Algy* (1916), as Patricia
- *A Corner in Colleens* (1916), as Rose
- *The Return of Draw Egan* (1916), as Myrtle Buckton
- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), as Brown Eyes (French Story) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md)
- *The Eye of the Night* (1916), as Jane (as Marjory Wilson)
- *The Primal Lure* (1916), as Lois Le Moyne
- *Double Trouble* (1915), as Elizabeth Waldron
- *Bred in the Bone* (1915), as The Manager's Wife, Mercy's Mother
- *The Lucky Transfer* (1915), as Little Girl

## Gallery

- ![Margery Wilson, silent film actress Subjects: actresses (1919)](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-e6cc6bdf97a9.jpg) Margery Wilson, silent film actress Subjects: actresses (1919) — Carpenter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Margery_Wilson%2C_silent_film_actress_%28SAYRE_10252%29.jpg/1280px-Margery_Wilson%2C_silent_film_actress_%28SAYRE_10252%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![William S. Hart, seated with arms around Margery Wilson and child. Movie still from The Desert Man (1917).](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-89dc4491a8a8.jpg) William S. Hart, seated with arms around Margery Wilson and child. Movie still from The Desert Man (1917). — Kay-Bee Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/William_S._Hart_and_Margery_Wilson_in_The_Desert_Man_cph.3b14500.jpg/1280px-William_S._Hart_and_Margery_Wilson_in_The_Desert_Man_cph.3b14500.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Margery Wilson, silent film actress Subjects: actresses (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-280c3174e376.jpg) Margery Wilson, silent film actress Subjects: actresses (1922) — Evans Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Margery_Wilson%2C_silent_film_actress_%28SAYRE_10294%29.jpg/1280px-Margery_Wilson%2C_silent_film_actress_%28SAYRE_10294%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: The Gunfighter Abstract/medium: 1 print (poster) : color. (1917)](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-73dfbb7a2ac4.jpg) Title: The Gunfighter Abstract/medium: 1 print (poster) : color. (1917) — Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/The_gunfighter_LCCN2013648176.jpg/1280px-The_gunfighter_LCCN2013648176.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Margery Wilson](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-07b38407f8d0.jpg) Margery Wilson — Image via TMDB
- ![William S. Hart and Margery Wilson in Wolf Lowry (1917)](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-d68feba9c35d.jpg) William S. Hart and Margery Wilson in Wolf Lowry (1917) — New York (Motion picture) Corp., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/William_S._Hart_and_Margery_Wilson_in_Wolf_Lowry.jpg/1280px-William_S._Hart_and_Margery_Wilson_in_Wolf_Lowry.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Low resolution screenshot from the public domain version of the film Intolerance (1916). A scene from the French Story of the film with Brown Eyes (Margery Wils](https://film.one/media/person/3848089/gallery-88ba3b6ee5ef.jpg) Low resolution screenshot from the public domain version of the film Intolerance (1916). A scene from the French Story of the film with Brown Eyes (Margery Wils — Triangle Film Corporation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Intolerance_%281916%29_-_Brown_Eyes.jpg/1280px-Intolerance_%281916%29_-_Brown_Eyes.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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