Jane Darwell: movies and TV shows
Jane Darwell has 185 credits in the archive: 171 films and 14 TV series, from 1914 to 1986. Highest rated: Gone with the Wind (7.9/10).
Career timeline
1914 – 1986 · busiest year: 1934 (22 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2 | (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 106 |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Bird Woman | Film | 7.5 | 84 |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Mrs. Leah Mulligan | TV | 6.3 | 83 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Mamie Carnation | TV | 7.8 | 82 |
| 1959 | Hound-Dog Man | Grandma Wilson | Film | 4.7 | 79 |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah | Delia | Film | 7.2 | 78 |
| 1957 | Maverick | Mrs. Knowles | TV | 6.9 | 77 |
| 1957 | Three Men on a Horse | Lady on Bus | Film | — | 77 |
| 1957 | The Greer Case | Annie Jackson | Film | — | 77 |
| 1956 | Prima Donna | Lena | Film | — | 76 |
| 1956 | There's Always Tomorrow | Mme Rogers | Film | 7.2 | 76 |
| 1956 | Girls in Prison | Matron Jamieson | Film | 4.5 | 76 |
| 1956 | Sincerely, Willis Wade | Mrs. Jacoby | Film | 8.0 | 76 |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater | TV | 5.3 | 75 | |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Lena | TV | 7.0 | 75 |
| 1955 | Hit the Deck | Jenny | Film | 5.0 | 75 |
| 1955 | A Life at Stake | Landlady | Film | 5.3 | 75 |
| 1954 | Lassie | TV | 6.3 | 74 | |
| 1954 | Climax! | B. Cool | TV | 3.8 | 74 |
| 1954 | Climax! | Mrs. Koestler | TV | 3.8 | 74 |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | TV | 7.5 | 74 | |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | TV | 7.0 | 74 | |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Irene Townsend | TV | 6.6 | 73 |
| 1953 | The Sun Shines Bright | Aurora Ratchitt | Film | 6.5 | 73 |
| 1953 | The Bigamist | Mrs. Connelley | Film | 6.5 | 73 |
| 1953 | Affair with a Stranger | Ma Stanton | Film | 4.8 | 73 |
| 1953 | It Happens Every Thursday | Mrs. Spatch | Film | 6.3 | 73 |
| 1952 | The Ford Television Theatre | Mama Mumby | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Minna | TV | 4.6 | 72 |
| 1952 | We're Not Married! | Mrs. Bush | Film | 5.9 | 72 |
| 1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid | 'Nellie Thursday' Regan | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1951 | Journey Into Light | Mack | Film | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1951 | Excuse My Dust | Mrs. Belden | Film | 7.8 | 71 |
| 1950 | Wagon Master | Sister Ledyard | Film | 6.7 | 70 |
| 1950 | Caged | Isolation Matron | Film | 7.1 | 70 |
| 1950 | Redwood Forest Trail | Hattie Hickory | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 1950 | The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady | Mrs. Murphy | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 1950 | The Second Face | Mrs. Lockridge | Film | 7.0 | 70 |
| 1950 | Three Husbands | Mrs. Wurdeman | Film | 5.4 | 70 |
| 1950 | Father's Wild Game | Minerva Bobbin | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 1950 | Surrender | Molly Hale | Film | 4.8 | 70 |
| 1949 | Red Canyon | Aunt Jane | Film | 5.8 | 69 |
| 1948 | Studio One | Anna - Maid | TV | 5.4 | 68 |
| 1948 | 3 Godfathers | Miss Florie | Film | 6.8 | 68 |
| 1948 | Train to Alcatraz | Aunt Ella | Film | 7.7 | 68 |
| 1947 | The Red Stallion | Aggie Curtis | Film | 10.0 | 67 |
| 1947 | Keeper of the Bees | Mrs. Ferris | Film | 10.0 | 67 |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Kate Nelson | Film | 7.5 | 66 |
| 1946 | Three Wise Fools | Sister Mary Brigid | Film | 5.7 | 66 |
| 1946 | The Dark Horse | Aunt Hattie | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 1945 | Captain Tugboat Annie | Tugboat Annie | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 1945 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Mrs. Patterson | Film | 7.3 | 65 |
| 1944 | Tender Comrade | Mrs. Henderson | Film | 5.7 | 64 |
| 1944 | She's a Sweetheart | Mom | Film | 9.0 | 64 |
| 1944 | The Impatient Years | Minister's wife | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1944 | Music in Manhattan | Mrs. Pearson | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 1944 | Reckless Age | Mrs. Connors | Film | 9.0 | 64 |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Ma Grier | Film | 7.7 | 63 |
| 1943 | Government Girl | Miss Trask (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 63 |
| 1943 | Stage Door Canteen | Jane Darwell | Film | 6.3 | 63 |
| 1943 | Family Feud | The Mother | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 1943 | Gildersleeve's Bad Day | Aunt Emma Forrester | Film | 6.6 | 63 |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Mrs. Donahue | Film | 6.7 | 62 |
| 1942 | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.9 | 62 |
| 1942 | The Great Gildersleeve | Aunt Emma Forrester | Film | 6.3 | 62 |
| 1942 | Highways by Night | Grandma Fogarty | Film | 7.3 | 62 |
| 1942 | The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Mariah Clemm | Film | 6.1 | 62 |
| 1942 | On the Sunny Side | Annie | Film | 7.0 | 62 |
| 1942 | It Happened in Flatbush | Mrs. Maguire | Film | 5.4 | 62 |
| 1942 | Young America | Grandmother Nora Campbell | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1942 | Men of Texas | Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie | Film | 9.0 | 62 |
| 1941 | All That Money Can Buy | Ma Stone | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1941 | Small Town Deb | Katie | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 1941 | Thieves Fall Out | Grandma Allen | Film | 6.0 | 61 |
| 1941 | Private Nurse | Miss Adams | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad | Film | 7.8 | 60 |
| 1940 | Brigham Young | Eliza Kent | Film | 4.6 | 60 |
| 1940 | Untamed | Mrs. Maggie Moriarty | Film | 5.0 | 60 |
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | Mrs. Bettina Huguenine | Film | 7.3 | 60 |
| 1940 | Youth Will Be Served | Supervisor Stormer | Film | 4.0 | 60 |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Mrs. Merriwether | Film | 7.9 | 59 |
| 1939 | Jesse James | Mrs. Samuels | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 1939 | The Rains Came | Aunt Phoebe Smiley | Film | 6.1 | 59 |
| 1939 | Grand Jury Secrets | Mrs. Keefe | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1939 | Miracle on Main Street | Mrs. Herman | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 1939 | The Zero Hour | Sophie | Film | 5.3 | 59 |
| 1939 | Inside Story | Aunt Mary Perkins | Film | 9.0 | 59 |
| 1939 | 20,000 Men a Year | Mrs. Allen | Film | 6.2 | 59 |
| 1939 | Unexpected Father | Mrs. Callahan | Film | 6.3 | 59 |
| 1938 | Up the River | Mrs. Graham | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1938 | Little Miss Broadway | Miss Hutchins | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1938 | Five of a Kind | Nurse Waldron | Film | 4.8 | 58 |
| 1938 | Battle of Broadway | Mrs. Rogers | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Mrs. Kilian | Film | 6.1 | 58 |
| 1938 | Time Out for Murder | Polly, Helen's supervisor | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1938 | The Jury's Secret | Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother | Film | 5.0 | 58 |
| 1938 | Change of Heart | Mrs. Thompson | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1937 | The Singing Marine | Ma Marine | Film | 5.3 | 57 |
| 1937 | Dangerously Yours | Aunt Cynthia Barton | Film | 5.8 | 57 |
| 1937 | Love Is News | Mrs. Flaherty | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 1937 | Slave Ship | Mrs. Marlowe | Film | 5.1 | 57 |
| 1937 | Lest We Forget | Archive Footage | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Mrs. Krueger | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1937 | Nancy Steele Is Missing! | Mrs. Mary Flaherty | Film | 6.7 | 57 |
| 1937 | Fifty Roads to Town | Mrs. Henry | Film | 10.0 | 57 |
| 1937 | The Great Hospital Mystery | Nurse Sarah Keats | Film | 5.5 | 57 |
| 1936 | Captain January | Eliza Croft | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 1936 | Private Number | Mrs. Frisby | Film | 6.7 | 56 |
| 1936 | The Country Doctor | Mrs. Graham | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1936 | Poor Little Rich Girl | Woodward | Film | 6.6 | 56 |
| 1936 | Laughing at Trouble | Glory Bradford | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1936 | Little Miss Nobody | Eva Bradley | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1936 | Craig's Wife | Mrs. Harold | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1936 | White Fang | Maud Mahoney | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1936 | Star for a Night | Mrs. Martha Lind | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1936 | Paddy O'Day | Dora | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1936 | The First Baby | Mrs. Ellis | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1935 | Wig-Wag | Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1935 | Curly Top | Mrs. Denham | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1935 | The Gilded Lily | Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 55 |
| 1935 | Life Begins at Forty | Ida Harris | Film | 10.0 | 55 |
| 1935 | McFadden´s Flats | Nora McFadden | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1935 | One More Spring | Mary Sweeney | Film | 6.2 | 55 |
| 1935 | Navy Wife | Mrs. Louise Keats | Film | 6.0 | 55 |
| 1935 | Metropolitan | Grandma | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1935 | We're Only Human | Mrs. Walsh | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Empress | Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 54 |
| 1934 | Wonder Bar | Baroness (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 1934 | Bright Eyes | Mrs. Higgins | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1934 | Finishing School | Maude (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 1934 | One Night of Love | Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 1934 | Gentlemen Are Born | Landlady | Film | 7.3 | 54 |
| 1934 | Once to Every Woman | Mrs. Wood (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1934 | Heat Lightning | Gladys | Film | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1934 | Fashions of 1934 | Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1934 | Change of Heart | Mrs. McGowan | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1934 | Let's Talk It Over | Mrs. O'Keefe | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1934 | Desirable | Frederick's Mother | Film | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1934 | Journal of a Crime | Dinner Guest (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 54 |
| 1934 | David Harum | Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited) | Film | 7.5 | 54 |
| 1934 | Blind Date | Ma Taylor | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1934 | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Davis - The Landlady | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1934 | Most Precious Thing in Life | Mrs. O'Day | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1934 | Tomorrow's Youth | Mary O'Brien | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1934 | Million Dollar Ransom | Ma McGarry (Uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 54 |
| 1934 | Cross Country Cruise | Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1934 | The White Parade | Sailor | Film | 6.8 | 54 |
| 1934 | Embarrassing Moments | Mrs. Stuckelberger | Film | 9.0 | 54 |
| 1933 | Before Dawn | Mrs. Marble | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 1933 | Bondage | Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1933 | Murders in the Zoo | Banquet Guest (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 1933 | Design for Living | Curtis' Housekeeper | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1933 | He Couldn't Take It | Mrs. Case | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1933 | Roman Scandals | Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 53 |
| 1933 | Bed of Roses | Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 53 |
| 1933 | Air Hostess | Ma Kearny | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1933 | One Sunday Afternoon | Mrs. Lind | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 1933 | Ann Vickers | Mrs. Gage (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 1933 | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 7.8 | 53 |
| 1933 | King for a Night | Mrs. Williams | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | Mrs. Lane | Film | 7.1 | 53 |
| 1933 | The Girl in 419 | Nurse Esmond | Film | 4.2 | 53 |
| 1933 | Emergency Call | Nurse Brown (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1933 | Child of Manhattan | Mrs. McGonagle | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1933 | Jennie Gerhardt | Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 53 |
| 1933 | The Past of Mary Holmes | Film | 10.0 | 53 | |
| 1932 | Back Street | Mrs. Adolph Schmidt | Film | 6.4 | 52 |
| 1932 | Hot Saturday | Mrs. Brock | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1932 | Young America | School Teacher (Uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 52 |
| 1932 | Washington Merry-Go-Round | Alice's Aunt | Film | 7.5 | 52 |
| 1932 | Women Won't Tell | Mrs. Walter Robinson | Film | 7.0 | 52 |
| 1931 | Huckleberry Finn | Widow Douglas | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1931 | Ladies of the Big House | Mrs. Turner | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1930 | Tom Sawyer | Widow Douglas | Film | 6.3 | 50 |
| 1923 | Little Church Around the Corner | Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 43 |
| 1920 | The Restless Sex | Housekeeper (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1915 | Hypocrites | Madam (uncredited) | Film | 5.6 | 35 |
| 1915 | After Five | Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy | Film | — | 35 |
| 1915 | The Goose Girl | Irma | Film | — | 35 |
| 1915 | The Rug Maker's Daughter | Mrs. Van Buren | Film | — | 35 |
| 1914 | The Rose of the Rancho | Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother | Film | 4.0 | 34 |
| 1914 | The Only Son | Mrs. Brainerd | Film | 1.0 | 34 |
| 1914 | The Master Mind | Milwaukee Sadie | Film | — | 34 |
| 1914 | Brewster's Millions | Mrs. Dan De Mille | Film | 6.0 | 34 |
| 1914 | Ready Money | Mrs. Tyler | Film | — | 34 |