May Whitty

Actor

1865-06-19 – 1948-05-29 · 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 to live in America, where she won awards for her film roles.

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• The Lady Vanishes (1938) — Miss Froy
• Suspicion (1941) — Mrs. McLaidlaw
• Gaslight (1944) — Miss Thwaites
• Mrs. Miniver (1942) — Lady Beldon
• Lassie Come Home (1943) — Dally
• My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) — Mrs. Hughes
• Madame Curie (1943) — Madame Eugene Curie
• Night Must Fall (1937) — Mrs. Bramson
• Crash Dive (1943) — Grandmother
• The Constant Nymph (1943) — Lady Constance Longborough
• Conquest (1937) — Laetitia Bonaparte
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) — Nanny
• Flesh and Fantasy (1943) — Pamela Hardwick (segment 2)
• Green Dolphin Street (1947) — Mother Superior
• Raffles (1939) — Lady Melrose
• Stage Door Canteen (1943) — Dame May Whitty
• The Sign of the Ram (1948) — Clara Brastock
• Devotion (1946) — Lady Thornton
• Forever and a Day (1943) — Lucy Trimble
• Keep Your Seats, Please (1936) — Aunt Georgina Withers
• The Thirteenth Chair (1937) — Mrs O'Neill aka Madame Rosalie la Grange
• Thunder Birds (1942) — Lady Jane Stackhouse
• Slightly Dangerous (1943) — Baba
• I Met My Love Again (1938) — Aunt William