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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1865-06-19 (159 years old)

Place of Birth

Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

May Whitty

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

Acting

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Miss Froy (archive footage) (uncredited)

1948

The Sign of the Ram as Clara Brastock
The Return of October as Aunt Martha Grant

1947

This Time for Keeps as Grandmother Cambaretti
Green Dolphin Street as Mother Superior
If Winter Comes as Mrs. Perch

1946

Devotion as Lady Thornton

1945

My Name Is Julia Ross as Mrs. Hughes

1944

Gaslight as Bessie Thwaites

1943

Madame Curie as Madame Eugene Curie
Crash Dive as Grandmother
The Constant Nymph as Lady Constance Longborough
Flesh and Fantasy as Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
Stage Door Canteen as Dame May Whitty
Forever and a Day as Lucy Trimble

1942

Mrs. Miniver as Lady Beldon
Thunder Birds as Lady Jane Stackhouse

1941

Suspicion as Mrs. McLaidlaw

1940

A Bill of Divorcement as Aunt Hester Fairfield
Return to Yesterday as Mrs Emily Truscott

1939

Raffles as Lady Melrose

1938

The Lady Vanishes as Miss Froy
I Met My Love Again as Aunt William

1937

Conquest as Laetitia Bonaparte
Night Must Fall as Mrs. Bramson
The Thirteenth Chair as Mme. Rosalie La Grange

1936

Keep Your Seats, Please as Aunt Georgina Withers

1915

The Little Minister as Nanny Webster