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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 19, 1865
Died
May 29, 1948
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Also Known As
- Mary Louise Whitty
- Mary Louisa Whitty
- Mary Louise Webster
- Dame Mary Louise Webster
- Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE
- May Whitty
- Miss May Whitty
- Dame May Whitty
May Whitty
0.4 Popularity
Biography
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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
5.8
Aunt Martha Grant
The Return of October
1948
5.8
Clara Brastock
The Sign of the Ram
1948
6.6
Mrs. Perch
If Winter Comes
1947
5.2
Grandmother Cambaretti
This Time for Keeps
1947
6.1
Mother Superior
Green Dolphin Street
1947
6.0
Lady Thornton
Devotion
1946
6.7
Mrs. Hughes
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945
6.7
Nanny
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944
7.5
Bessie Thwaites
Gaslight
1944
7.2
Madame Eugene Curie
Madame Curie
1943
Credits
The Return of October
as Aunt Martha Grant
1948
5.8
The Sign of the Ram
as Clara Brastock
1948
5.8
If Winter Comes
as Mrs. Perch
1947
6.6
This Time for Keeps
as Grandmother Cambaretti
1947
5.2
Green Dolphin Street
as Mother Superior
1947
6.1
Devotion
as Lady Thornton
1946
6.0
My Name Is Julia Ross
as Mrs. Hughes
1945
6.7
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Nanny
1944
6.7
Gaslight
as Bessie Thwaites
1944
7.5
Madame Curie
as Madame Eugene Curie
1943
7.2
Lassie Come Home
as Dally
1943
6.7
Flesh and Fantasy
as Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
1943
6.8
Stage Door Canteen
as Dame May Whitty
1943
5.8
The Constant Nymph
as Lady Constance Longborough
1943
6.0
Crash Dive
as Grandmother
1943
6.2
Slightly Dangerous
as Baba
1943
6.0
Forever and a Day
as Lucy Trimble
1943
7.4
Thunder Birds
as Lady Jane Stackhouse
1942
5.4
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942
6.0
Mrs. Miniver
as Lady Beldon
1942
7.1
Suspicion
as Mrs. McLaidlaw
1941
7.1
One Night In Lisbon
as Florence
1941
0.0
A Bill of Divorcement
as Aunt Hester Fairfield
1940
7.0
Return to Yesterday
as Mrs Emily Truscott
1940
6.2
Raffles
as Lady Melrose
1939
6.0
The Lady Vanishes
as Miss Froy
1938
7.4
I Met My Love Again
as Aunt William
1938
5.4
Conquest
as Laetitia Bonaparte
1937
6.5
The Thirteenth Chair
as Mme. Rosalie La Grange
1937
6.1
Night Must Fall
as Mrs. Bramson
1937
7.0
Keep Your Seats, Please
as Aunt Georgina Withers
1936
6.4
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The Little Minister
as Nanny Webster
1915
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