May Whitty

Actor

Born: June 19, 1865
Died: May 29, 1948 (age 82)
From: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

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…

Filmography (32)

The Return of October (1948)
Aunt Martha Grant
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
Clara Brastock
If Winter Comes (1947)
Mrs. Perch
This Time for Keeps (1947)
Grandmother Cambaretti
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Mother Superior
Devotion (1946)
Lady Thornton
My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
Mrs. Hughes
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Nanny
Gaslight (1944)
Miss Thwaites
Madame Curie (1943)
Madame Eugene Curie
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Dally
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Dame May Whitty
The Constant Nymph (1943)
Lady Constance Longborough
Crash Dive (1943)
Grandmother
Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Baba
Forever and a Day (1943)
Lucy Trimble
Thunder Birds (1942)
Lady Jane Stackhouse
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6 (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Lady Beldon
Suspicion (1941)
Mrs. McLaidlaw
One Night In Lisbon (1941)
Florence
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Aunt Hester Fairfield
Return to Yesterday (1940)
Mrs Emily Truscott
Raffles (1939)
Lady Melrose
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy
I Met My Love Again (1938)
Aunt William
Conquest (1937)
Laetitia Bonaparte
The Thirteenth Chair (1937)
Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange
Night Must Fall (1937)
Mrs. Bramson