Dame May Whitty


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Actress

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles.

Place of Birth: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Date of Birth: Jun 19, 1865

Date of Death: May 29, 1948


Filmography

Actress (30 Known Credits)


The Sign of the Ram

Clara Brastock

The Return of October

Aunt Martha Grant

This Time for Keeps

Grandmother Cambaretti

Green Dolphin Street

Mother Superior

If Winter Comes

Mrs. Perch

Devotion

Lady Thornton

Gaslight

Miss Bessie Thwaites

Madame Curie

Madame Eugene Curie

Stage Door Canteen

Dame May Whitty

Forever and a Day

Mrs. Lucy Trimble

Crash Dive

Grandmother

The Constant Nymph

Lady Constance Longborough

Flesh and Fantasy

Lady Pamela Hardwick (Episode 2)

Mrs. Miniver

Lady Beldon

Thunder Birds

Lady Jane Stackhouse

Suspicion

Mrs. McLaidlaw

A Bill of Divorcement

Aunt Hester Fairfield

Return to Yesterday

Mrs Emily Truscott

Raffles

Lady Melrose

I Met My Love Again

Aunt William

Conquest

Laetitia Bonaparte

Night Must Fall

Mrs. Bramson

The Thirteenth Chair

Mme. Rosalie La Grange

Keep Your Seats, Please

Aunt Georgina Withers

Clara Brastock
Aunt Martha Grant
Grandmother Cambaretti
Mother Superior
Mrs. Perch
Devotion (1946)
Lady Thornton
Mrs. Hughes
Gaslight (1944)
Miss Bessie Thwaites
Dally
Madame Curie (1943)
Madame Eugene Curie
Dame May Whitty
Mrs. Lucy Trimble
Crash Dive (1943)
Grandmother
Lady Constance Longborough
Lady Pamela Hardwick (Episode 2)
Baba
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Lady Beldon
Thunder Birds (1942)
Lady Jane Stackhouse
Suspicion (1941)
Mrs. McLaidlaw
Florence
Aunt Hester Fairfield
Mrs Emily Truscott
Raffles (1939)
Lady Melrose
Miss Froy
Aunt William
Conquest (1937)
Laetitia Bonaparte
Mrs. Bramson
Mme. Rosalie La Grange
Aunt Georgina Withers

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