Adele Inman

Biography

Adele Inman first drew breath in 1895 amid the salt-laced bustle of Sydney, New South Wales. Within a decade she had stepped before the camera, helping to sketch the dawn of Australian screen storytelling. At nineteen she appeared in A Long, Long Way to Tipperary (1914), riding the wave of patriotic silent reels; six years later she saddled up for The Kelly Gang (1920), bringing outlaw legend to smoky black-and-white life. Her final known role came in A Co-respondent's Course (1931), a courtroom drama that closed one chapter of her career while talkies rewrote the industry. After six decades away from the spotlight, she took her last bow in Melbourne on 16 July 1981, leaving behind a slim but indelible footprint in Australia’s early cinema soil.