Gladys Cooper
Actor
Born December 18, 1888 in Chiswick, England, UK
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
Filmography
The Switch
Grand Duchess Ozerov
The Persuaders!
Grand Duchess Ozerov
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Mrs. Ternan
A Nice Girl Like Me
Aunt Mary
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
The Happiest Millionaire
Aunt Mary
Callan
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Mama Rosha
My Fair Lady
Mrs. Higgins
The Rogues
Margaret St. Clair
Burke's Law
Harriet Richards
The Outer Limits
Mrs. Palmer
The List of Adrian Messenger
Mrs. Karoudjian
Pygmalion
Mrs. Higgins
Going My Way
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Mrs. Raydon
Ben Casey
Adventures in Paradise
Mrs. Maude Harper
The Twilight Zone
Millie McKenzie
Separate Tables
Mrs. Railton-Bell
Naked City
Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr.
Circle of the Day
Mrs. Millet
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Marguerite Gillespie
MGM Parade
self
The Man Who Loved Redheads
Lady Binfield
At Sword's Point
Queen Anne
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Higgins
Thunder on the Hill
Mother Superior
Madame Bovary
Madame Dupuis
The Secret Garden
Mrs. Medlock
The Pirate
Aunt Inez
Homecoming
Mrs. Kirby
The Bishop's Wife
Mrs. Hamilton
Green Dolphin Street
Sophie Patourel
The Cockeyed Miracle
Amy Griggs
Beware of Pity
Mrs. Klara Condor
The Green Years
Grandma Leckie
Love Letters
Beatrice Remington
The Valley of Decision
Clarissa Scott
Mrs. Parkington
Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
The White Cliffs of Dover
Jean Ashwood
The Song of Bernadette
Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
Princess O'Rourke
Miss Haskell
Mr. Lucky
Veronica Steadman
Forever and a Day
Mrs. Barringer
Now, Voyager
Mrs. Henry Vale
Eagle Squadron
Aunt Emmeline
This Above All
Iris Cathaway
The Gay Falcon
Maxine Wood
The Black Cat
Myrna Hartley
That Hamilton Woman
Lady Francis Nelson
Kitty Foyle
Mrs. Strafford
Rebecca
Beatrice Lacy
The Iron Duke
Madame - Duchess d'Angoulème
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Flora MacDonald
The Bohemian Girl
Arlene Arnheim