Mary Forbes: movies and TV shows
Mary Forbes has 108 credits in the archive: 106 films and 2 TV series, from 1918 to 1958. Highest rated: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (7.8/10).
Career timeline
1918 – 1958 · busiest year: 1939 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Houseboat | British Society Woman (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 75 |
| 1957 | Suspicion | Mrs. Merton | TV | 6.2 | 74 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mrs. Herbert Winthrop | TV | 7.8 | 72 |
| 1952 | Les Miserables | Nun (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 69 |
| 1948 | You Gotta Stay Happy | Aunt Martha | Film | 6.8 | 65 |
| 1948 | The Black Arrow | Nun (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 65 |
| 1947 | Cigarette Girl | Mrs. Halstead | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1947 | The Exile | Second Court Lady | Film | 6.3 | 64 |
| 1947 | It Had to Be You | Mrs. Kimberly (uncredited) | Film | 7.8 | 64 |
| 1947 | The Judge Steps Out | Margaret (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 64 |
| 1947 | Ivy | Lady Crail (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 1946 | Terror by Night | Lady Margaret Carstairs | Film | 6.6 | 63 |
| 1945 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Lady Agatha | Film | 7.1 | 62 |
| 1945 | Lady on a Train | Film | 6.7 | 62 | |
| 1945 | Earl Carroll Vanities | Queen Mother Elena | Film | 5.4 | 62 |
| 1945 | I'll Remember April | Mrs. Barrington | Film | 4.5 | 62 |
| 1944 | Tender Comrade | Jo's Mother (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 61 |
| 1943 | Jane Eyre | Mrs. Eshton | Film | 6.9 | 60 |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky | War Relief Worker (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1943 | Sherlock Holmes in Washington | Mrs. Pettibone | Film | 6.8 | 60 |
| 1943 | Two Tickets to London | Dame Dunne Hartley | Film | 7.5 | 60 |
| 1943 | Dangerous Blondes | Isabel Fleming (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 1942 | Twin Beds | Film | 3.8 | 59 | |
| 1942 | This Above All | Vicar's Wife | Film | 6.8 | 59 |
| 1942 | The Great Impersonation | Lady Leslie Clayfair | Film | 6.4 | 59 |
| 1942 | Almost Married | Mrs. Marvin | Film | 7.0 | 59 |
| 1942 | Klondike Fury | Mrs. Langton | Film | 5.1 | 59 |
| 1941 | Back Street | Mrs. Williams | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 1941 | Nothing but the Truth | Mrs. Ralston | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 57 |
| 1940 | South of Suez | Mrs. Putnam | Film | 4.6 | 57 |
| 1940 | Private Affairs | Mrs. Stanley | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1940 | Florian | Grandmother | Film | 4.5 | 57 |
| 1940 | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor | Film | 6.6 | 57 |
| 1940 | Blame It on Love | Mrs. Wadsworth | Film | 4.8 | 57 |
| 1939 | Ninotchka | Lady Lavenham (uncredited) | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Lady Conyngham | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 1939 | I Stole a Million | Flower Shop Customer (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1939 | Three Smart Girls Grow Up | Mrs. Withers | Film | 7.2 | 56 |
| 1939 | You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Mrs. Bel-Goodie | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1939 | These Glamour Girls | Mrs. Van Reichton (uncredited) | Film | 5.9 | 56 |
| 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | Mrs. Gaynes | Film | 6.2 | 56 |
| 1939 | The Ice Follies of 1939 | Lady Hilda (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 56 |
| 1939 | Fast and Loose | Mrs. Torrent | Film | 5.9 | 56 |
| 1939 | Risky Business | Mrs. Jameson | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1939 | The Sun Never Sets | Mrs. Randolph | Film | 5.5 | 56 |
| 1939 | Outside These Walls | Gertrude Bishop | Film | 8.8 | 56 |
| 1938 | You Can't Take It with You | Mrs. Anthony Kirby | Film | 7.5 | 55 |
| 1938 | Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Hanson | Film | 4.2 | 55 |
| 1938 | The Rage of Paris | Woman in Opera Box (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 55 |
| 1938 | Always Goodbye | Aunt Martha Marshall | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1938 | Everybody Sing | Miss Colvin | Film | 5.0 | 55 |
| 1938 | What Do You Think? (Number Three) | Mrs. Dosier - John's Mother (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1938 | Outside of Paradise | Mrs. Stonewall | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1937 | Another Dawn | Mrs. Lydia Benton | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1937 | The Awful Truth | Mrs. Vance | Film | 7.2 | 54 |
| 1937 | Stage Door | Cast of Stage Play | Film | 7.1 | 54 |
| 1937 | One Hundred Men and a Girl | Concert Hall Patron | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 1937 | Wee Willie Winkie | Mrs. MacMonachie | Film | 6.6 | 54 |
| 1937 | Women of Glamour | Mrs. Stark | Film | 5.7 | 54 |
| 1937 | The Life of the Party | Mrs. Saunders | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 1936 | The White Angel | Lady Disapproving of Florence #1 (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 53 |
| 1936 | Wedding Present | Mrs. Dodacker | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1936 | Theodora Goes Wild | Mrs. Wyatt (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 1935 | Captain Blood | Mrs. Steed | Film | 7.2 | 52 |
| 1935 | Anna Karenina | Princess Sorokina | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1935 | Les Misérables | Mlle. Baptiseme | Film | 7.1 | 52 |
| 1935 | Roberta | (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 52 |
| 1935 | Rendezvous | Lady Cavendish (uncredited) | Film | 4.9 | 52 |
| 1935 | Laddie | Mrs. Anna Pryor | Film | 10.0 | 52 |
| 1935 | The Perfect Gentleman | Lady Clyffe-Pembrook | Film | 6.3 | 52 |
| 1935 | Stranded | Grace Dean (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1935 | The Widow from Monte Carlo | Lady Holloway | Film | 5.8 | 52 |
| 1935 | Dizzy Dames | Mrs. Stokes | Film | 8.0 | 52 |
| 1934 | British Agent | Lady Catherine Trehearne | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1934 | A Lost Lady | Mrs. Hardy (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1934 | She Was a Lady | Lady Diana Vane | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1934 | Sadie McKee | Mrs. Alderson (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1934 | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Travis | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1934 | Most Precious Thing in Life | Mrs. Kelsey | Film | 5.8 | 51 |
| 1934 | We Live Again | Mrs. Kortchagin | Film | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1934 | Blind Date | Mrs. Hartwell | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1934 | Shock | Lady Heatherly | Film | 7.3 | 51 |
| 1934 | Two Heads on a Pillow | Mrs. Caroline Devonshire | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 1934 | You Can't Buy Everything | Kate Farley | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1933 | Cavalcade | Duchess of Churt (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 50 |
| 1933 | Bombshell | Mrs. Middleton | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1932 | A Farewell to Arms | Miss Van Campen | Film | 6.2 | 49 |
| 1932 | Vanity Fair | Mrs. Sedley | Film | 4.7 | 49 |
| 1932 | The Silent Witness | Lady Howard | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1931 | Working Girls | Mrs. Johnstone | Film | 7.1 | 48 |
| 1931 | Born to Love | The Duchess (uncredited) | Film | 5.3 | 48 |
| 1931 | The Man Who Came Back | Mrs. Gaynes | Film | 4.3 | 48 |
| 1931 | Chances | Mrs. Ingleside | Film | 7.4 | 48 |
| 1931 | The Brat | Mrs. Forester | Film | 5.4 | 48 |
| 1930 | Abraham Lincoln | Actress (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 1930 | So This Is London | Lady Worthing | Film | 7.0 | 47 |
| 1930 | The Devil to Pay! | Mrs. Hope (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 47 |
| 1930 | Strictly Unconventional | Mrs. Anna Shenstone | Film | 4.3 | 47 |
| 1930 | Holiday | Mrs. Pritchard Ames (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 47 |
| 1930 | East Is West | Mrs. Benson | Film | 5.3 | 47 |
| 1929 | Her Private Life | Ladu Wildering | Film | 3.0 | 46 |
| 1929 | The Thirteenth Chair | Lady Alice Crosby | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 1929 | The Trespasser | Mrs. Ferguson | Film | 6.9 | 46 |
| 1929 | Sunny Side Up | Mrs. Cromwell | Film | 7.1 | 46 |
| 1919 | The Lady Clare | Lady Julia Medwin | Film | 9.0 | 36 |
| 1919 | Women Who Win | Film | 9.0 | 36 | |
| 1918 | The Woman's Portion | Lizzie | Film | — | 35 |