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Maude Eburne

Nov 10, 1875 - Oct 15, 1960 (84 years old) in Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

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Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect."

She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.

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The Bat Whispers
Lizzie Allen
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Indiscreet
Aunt Kate
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Convict's Code
Mrs. Magruder
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To Be or Not to Be
Anna
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Colorado
Etta Mae
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Lonely Wives
Mrs. Mantel
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The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy
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Vivacious Lady
Nagging Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited)
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The Vampire Bat
Aunt Gussie Schnappmann
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Ruggles of Red Gap
'Ma' Pettingill

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