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May Whitty

Acting Born Jun 19, 1865 Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK 24 credits

Biography

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

Film

Gaslight

as Miss Thwaites

Full filmography

  • Gaslight (1944) as Miss Thwaites
  • Suspicion (1941) as Mrs. McLaidlaw
  • Madame Curie (1943) as Madame Eugene Curie
  • Mrs. Miniver (1942) as Lady Beldon
  • The Lady Vanishes (1938) as Miss Froy
  • Forever and a Day (1943) as Lucy Trimble
  • Lassie Come Home (1943) as Dally
  • Thunder Birds (1942) as Lady Jane Stackhouse
  • Crash Dive (1943) as Grandmother
  • My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) as Mrs. Hughes
  • The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) as Nanny
  • Stage Door Canteen (1943) as Dame May Whitty
  • Conquest (1937) as Laetitia Bonaparte
  • Slightly Dangerous (1943) as Baba
  • Raffles (1939) as Lady Melrose
  • The Sign of the Ram (1948) as Clara Brastock
  • Flesh and Fantasy (1943) as Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
  • Devotion (1946) as Lady Thornton
  • The Return of October (1948) as Aunt Martha Grant
  • The Constant Nymph (1943) as Lady Constance Longborough
  • Night Must Fall (1937) as Mrs. Bramson
  • Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
  • Green Dolphin Street (1947) as Mother Superior
  • If Winter Comes (1947) as Mrs. Perch