May Whitty

Jun 19, 1865 - May 29, 1948 (82 years old) in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

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.

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Known For

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Night Must Fall

Mrs. Bramson

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Gaslight

Miss Thwaites

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Madame Curie

Madame Eugene Curie

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Suspicion

Mrs. McLaidlaw

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Slightly Dangerous

Baba

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Conquest

Laetitia Bonaparte

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Raffles

Lady Melrose

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Devotion

Lady Thornton

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The Lady Vanishes

Miss Froy

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The Little Minister

Nanny Webster

Credits

The Return of October 1948

Aunt Martha Grant

★ 5.8
The Sign of the Ram 1948

Clara Brastock

★ 5.9
If Winter Comes 1947

Mrs. Perch

★ 6.6
This Time for Keeps 1947

Grandmother Cambaretti

★ 5.2
Green Dolphin Street 1947

Mother Superior

★ 6.1
Devotion 1946

Lady Thornton

★ 6
My Name Is Julia Ross 1945

Mrs. Hughes

★ 6.7
The White Cliffs of Dover 1944

Nanny

★ 6.5
Gaslight 1944

Miss Thwaites

★ 7.5
Madame Curie 1943

Madame Eugene Curie

★ 7.2
Lassie Come Home 1943

Dally

★ 6.7
Flesh and Fantasy 1943

Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)

★ 7
Stage Door Canteen 1943

Dame May Whitty

★ 6.1
The Constant Nymph 1943

Lady Constance Longborough

★ 6.1
Crash Dive 1943

Grandmother

★ 6.3
Slightly Dangerous 1943

Baba

★ 6.1
Forever and a Day 1943

Lucy Trimble

★ 7.4
Thunder Birds 1942

Lady Jane Stackhouse

★ 5.4
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 1942

★ 6
Mrs. Miniver 1942

Lady Beldon

★ 7.1
Suspicion 1941

Mrs. McLaidlaw

★ 7.1
One Night In Lisbon 1941

Florence

★ NR
A Bill of Divorcement 1940

Aunt Hester Fairfield

★ 7
Return to Yesterday 1940

Mrs Emily Truscott

★ 6.2
Raffles 1939

Lady Melrose

★ 6
The Lady Vanishes 1938

Miss Froy

★ 7.4
I Met My Love Again 1938

Aunt William

★ 5.4
Conquest 1937

Laetitia Bonaparte

★ 6.5
The Thirteenth Chair 1937

Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange

★ 6.1
Night Must Fall 1937

Mrs. Bramson

★ 6.9
Keep Your Seats, Please 1936

Aunt Georgina Withers

★ 6.4
The Little Minister 1915

Nanny Webster

★ NR

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