Esther Dale: movies and TV shows
Esther Dale has 105 credits in the archive: 95 films and 10 TV series, from 1934 to 1960. Highest rated: The Awful Truth (7.2/10).
Career timeline
1934 – 1960 · busiest year: 1939 (13 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Thriller | Ellen the Maid | TV | 6.7 | 74 |
| 1960 | North to Alaska | Woman at Picnic | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 1959 | The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | TV | 6.3 | 73 | |
| 1959 | Lock-Up | Mrs. Raymond | TV | 6.4 | 73 |
| 1959 | The Sound and the Fury | Mrs. Maud Mansfield | Film | 6.8 | 73 |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show | TV | 6.5 | 72 | |
| 1957 | Maverick | Ma Braus | TV | 6.9 | 71 |
| 1957 | M Squad | Julia Sheldon | TV | 5.4 | 71 |
| 1957 | The Oklahoman | Mrs. Fitzgerald | Film | 5.8 | 71 |
| 1955 | Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki | Birdie Hicks | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 1955 | Betrayed Women | Head Matron Ballard | Film | 5.1 | 69 |
| 1954 | December Bride | TV | 6.3 | 68 | |
| 1953 | A Tale of Two Cities | Pross | Film | 9.0 | 67 |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse | Mrs. Weston | TV | 6.8 | 66 |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Aunt Tabitha | TV | 4.6 | 66 |
| 1952 | Mr. & Mrs. North | TV | 5.0 | 66 | |
| 1952 | Monkey Business | Mrs. Rhinelander | Film | 6.7 | 66 |
| 1952 | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair | Birdie Hicks | Film | 6.6 | 66 |
| 1951 | On Moonlight Bay | Film | 6.5 | 65 | |
| 1951 | Too Young to Kiss | Mrs. Boykin | Film | 5.1 | 65 |
| 1950 | Walk Softly, Stranger | Miss Thompson | Film | 5.1 | 64 |
| 1950 | No Man of Her Own | Josie | Film | 6.9 | 64 |
| 1950 | Surrender | Aunt May | Film | 4.8 | 64 |
| 1949 | Holiday Affair | Mrs. Ennis | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1949 | Ma and Pa Kettle | Mrs. Birdie Hicks | Film | 7.2 | 63 |
| 1948 | A Song Is Born | Miss Bragg | Film | 6.4 | 62 |
| 1947 | The Egg and I | Birdie Hicks | Film | 7.1 | 61 |
| 1947 | The Unfinished Dance | Olga | Film | 6.4 | 61 |
| 1946 | My Reputation | Anna | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 1946 | A Stolen Life | Mrs. Johnson | Film | 6.4 | 60 |
| 1946 | Margie | Grandma McSweeney | Film | 7.1 | 60 |
| 1946 | Smoky | Mrs. Richards | Film | 5.7 | 60 |
| 1945 | On Stage Everybody | Ma Cassidy | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1945 | Bedside Manner | Martha Gravitt | Film | 5.9 | 59 |
| 1945 | Behind City Lights | Sarah Lowell | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1943 | The North Star | Anna Kurin | Film | 6.0 | 57 |
| 1943 | Old Acquaintance | Harriet | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 1943 | The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | Film | 6.7 | 57 | |
| 1943 | Murder in Times Square | Longacre Lil | Film | 4.7 | 57 |
| 1943 | Swing Your Partner | Caroline Bird, aka Anna Robbins | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 1942 | Blondie Goes to College | Mrs. Carrie Dill, the Landlady | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 1942 | Ten Gentlemen from West Point | Mrs. Thompson | Film | 6.4 | 56 |
| 1942 | What's Cookin'? | Mrs. Murphy (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1942 | Maisie Gets Her Man | Mrs. McIntyre (Uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 56 |
| 1942 | You're Telling Me | Aunt Fannie Handley | Film | 10.0 | 56 |
| 1942 | Wrecking Crew | Mike O'Glendy | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1942 | A Letter From Bataan | Mrs. Jackson | Film | 5.2 | 56 |
| 1941 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Mrs. Krausheimer | Film | 5.9 | 55 |
| 1941 | Back Street | Mrs. Smith | Film | 7.3 | 55 |
| 1941 | Dangerously They Live | Dawson, Goodwin's Housekeeper | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1941 | Aloma of the South Seas | Tarusa | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1941 | Unfinished Business | Aunt Mathilda | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1941 | All-American Co-Ed | Aunt Matilda Collinge | Film | 4.4 | 55 |
| 1940 | The Mortal Storm | Marta | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1940 | Arise, My Love | Susie | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1940 | Convicted Woman | Chief Matron Brackett | Film | 4.6 | 54 |
| 1940 | Blondie Has Servant Trouble | Anna Vaughn | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1940 | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | Lincoln's Cook (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 54 |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Head Matron Ingles | Film | 4.7 | 54 |
| 1940 | Forty Little Mothers | Mrs. Mason the Landlady | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1940 | Untamed | Mrs. Smith | Film | 5.0 | 54 |
| 1940 | Cross-Country Romance | Mrs. McGillicuddy | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1940 | And One Was Beautiful | Margaret | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1940 | Laddie | Sarah, the Housekeeper | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1940 | Village Barn Dance | Minerva Withers | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1940 | Opened by Mistake | Mrs. Anthony DeBorest | Film | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1939 | The Women | Ingrid (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1939 | Made for Each Other | Annie (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 1939 | Broadway Serenade | Mrs. Olsen, the Landlady | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 1939 | Sergeant Madden | Mrs. McGillivray | Film | 7.5 | 53 |
| 1939 | Tell No Tales | Mrs. Haskins | Film | 5.4 | 53 |
| 1939 | Swanee River | Temperance Woman | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1939 | The Great Man Votes | Mrs. Markham | Film | 6.4 | 53 |
| 1939 | Big Town Czar | Ma Daley | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1939 | A Child is Born | Prison Matron (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1939 | Blackmail | Sarah | Film | 6.9 | 53 |
| 1939 | Bad Little Angel | Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 53 |
| 1939 | 6,000 Enemies | Prison Matron | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 1939 | How to Sub-Let | Mrs. Mustavas | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 1938 | Stolen Heaven | Lieschen | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1938 | Prison Farm | Cora Waxley | Film | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1938 | Girls on Probation | Mrs. Engstrom | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1938 | Condemned Women | Mrs. Clara Glover, Head Matron | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1937 | The Awful Truth | Mrs. Leeson | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 1937 | Dead End | Mrs. Fenner | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1937 | Easy Living | Lillian | Film | 7.2 | 51 |
| 1937 | Outcast | Hattie Simmerson | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1937 | Damaged Goods | Mrs. Dupont | Film | 3.6 | 51 |
| 1937 | On Such a Night | Miss Belinda Fentridge | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1937 | Wild Money | Jenny Hawkins | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1936 | Fury | Mrs. Whipple | Film | 7.5 | 50 |
| 1936 | Hollywood Boulevard | Martha | Film | 4.5 | 50 |
| 1936 | The Farmer in the Dell | Ma Boyer | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1936 | The Case Against Mrs. Ames | Matilda | Film | 5.0 | 50 |
| 1936 | Lady of Secrets | Miss Eccles | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1936 | Timothy's Quest | Hitty Tarbox | Film | 4.7 | 50 |
| 1935 | Curly Top | Genevieve Graham | Film | 6.5 | 49 |
| 1935 | I Live My Life | Brumbaugh, Mrs. Gage's Housekeeper | Film | 6.6 | 49 |
| 1935 | The Wedding Night | Mrs. Kaise Novak | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 1935 | In Old Kentucky | Dolly Breckenridge | Film | 10.0 | 49 |
| 1935 | I Dream Too Much | Mrs. Dilley (uncredited) | Film | 5.4 | 49 |
| 1935 | Private Worlds | Matron | Film | 6.4 | 49 |
| 1935 | The Great Impersonation | Mrs. Unthank | Film | 7.5 | 49 |
| 1935 | Mary Burns, Fugitive | Kate | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1934 | Crime Without Passion | Miss Keeley (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 48 |