Edna May Oliver

Edna May Oliver

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

08/11/1883

Day of Death

09/11/1942
(59) years old

Place of Birth

Malden, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters. ​She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May ... Read More

Filmography

Cast

1999

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]...

1941

Lydia

as Sarah MacMillan

1940

Pride and Prejudice

as Lady Catherine de Bourgh

1939

Drums Along the Mohawk

as Mrs. Mc Klennar

1939

Nurse Edith Cavell

as Countess de Mavon

1939

Second Fiddle

as Aunt Phoebe

1938

Little Miss Broadway

as Sarah Wendling

1938

Paradise for Three

as Mrs. Kunkel

1937

Rosalie

as Queen of Romanza

1937

My Dear Miss Aldrich

as Mrs. Atherton

1937

Parnell

as Aunt Ben Wood

1936

Romeo and Juliet

as Juliet's Nurse

1935

A Tale of Two Cities

as Miss Pross

1935

No More Ladies

as Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend

1935

Murder on a Honeymoon

as Hildegarde Withers

1935

David Copperfield

as Aunt Betsey Trotwood

1934

We're Rich Again

as Maude Stanley

1934

Murder on the Blackboard

as Hildegarde Withers

1934

The Last Gentleman

as Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister

1934

The Poor Rich

as Harriet Spottiswood

1933

Alice in Wonderland

as Red Queen

1933

Little Women

as Aunt March

1933

Only Yesterday

as Leona

1933

Meet the Baron

as Dean Primrose

1933

Ann Vickers

as Malvina Wormser

1933

It's Great to Be Alive

as Dr. Prodwell

1933

The Great Jasper

as Madame Talma

1932

The Penguin Pool Murder

as Hildegarde Withers

1932

The Conquerors

as Matilda Blake

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

as Violet Jones

1932

Ladies of the Jury

as Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane

1931

Fanny Foley Herself

as Fanny Foley

1931

Newly Rich

as Bessie Tate

1931

Cracked Nuts

as Aunt Minnie Van Varden

1931

Laugh and Get Rich

as Sarah Cranston Austin

1931

Cimarron

as Mrs. Tracy Wyatt

1930

Half Shot at Sunrise

as Mrs. Marshall

1929

The Saturday Night Kid

as Miss Streeter

1926

Let's Get Married

as J.W. Smith

1926

The American Venus

as Mrs. Niles

1925

Lovers in Quarantine

as Amelia Pincent

1925

The Lucky Devil

as Mrs. McDee

1924

Manhattan

as Mrs. Trapes

1924

Icebound

as Hannah

1924

Restless Wives

as Benson's Secretary

1923

Wife in Name Only

as Mrs. Dornham