She was best known as a character actor in silent films, playing roles such as a fussy spinster and a blacksmith.

[4] Her transition into talking pictures led to more serious roles, including the giggly fiancée in the prestige antiwar film The Road Back.

[1] Wallis was in Hawaii making a film and left immediately for home.

[7] She appears in the lyrics of "Out in the Street", a rock-ballad from 1975 by hard rock band UFO.

"Your comic book impersonations, Louise Fazenda and Buster Keaton"[citation needed]