Virginia Foltz
actress
- Born:
- 1876-07-10, San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA
- Died:
- 1955-06-14, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
On a summer Tuesday in 1876, Virginia Foltz drew her first breath in San Jose, California, when Santa Clara Valley orchards still outnumbered streetlights. By 1916 she had traded apricot-scented breezes for klieg lights, stepping before the camera in three silent features released that single whirlwind year: *Gloriana*, *The Call of the Cumberlands*, and *Ben Blair*. Off-screen, she said “I do” twice—first to John Walz Catron, later to Leslie David Martin—charting a life as eventful as any melodrama. Her final curtain fell among the adobe shadows of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on 14 June 1955, closing a story that had stretched from California’s frontier childhood to the dawn of talking pictures.
