Edna May Oliver
Actor
Born November 8, 1883 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA
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 and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.
Filmography
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Lydia
Sarah MacMillan
Pride and Prejudice
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Drums Along the Mohawk
Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
Countess de Mavon
Second Fiddle
Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Maggie Sutton
Little Miss Broadway
Sarah Wendling
Paradise for Three
Mrs. Kunkel
Rosalie
Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Mrs. Atherton
Parnell
Aunt Ben Wood
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet's Nurse
A Tale of Two Cities
Miss Pross
No More Ladies
Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
Murder on a Honeymoon
Hildegarde Withers
David Copperfield
Aunt Betsey Trotwood
We're Rich Again
Maude Stanley
Murder on the Blackboard
Hildegarde Withers
The Last Gentleman
Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
The Poor Rich
Harriet Spottiswood
Alice in Wonderland
Red Queen
Little Women
Aunt March
Only Yesterday
Leona
Meet the Baron
Dean Primrose
Ann Vickers
Malvina Wormser
It's Great to Be Alive
Dr. Prodwell
The Great Jasper
Madame Talma
The Penguin Pool Murder
Hildegarde Withers
The Conquerors
Matilda Blake
Hold 'Em Jail
Violet Jones
Ladies of the Jury
Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
Fanny Foley Herself
Fanny Foley
Newly Rich
Bessie Tate
Cracked Nuts
Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Laugh and Get Rich
Sarah Cranston Austin
Cimarron
Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Half Shot at Sunrise
Mrs. Marshall
The Saturday Night Kid
Miss Streeter
Let's Get Married
J.W. Smith
The American Venus
Mrs. Niles
Lovers in Quarantine
Amelia Pincent
The Lucky Devil
Mrs. McDee
The Lady Who Lied
Manhattan
Mrs. Trapes
Icebound
Hannah
Three O'Clock in the Morning
Hetty
Wife in Name Only
Mrs. Dornham