Edna May Oliver
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Acting Credits
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 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 ...
Known For
Filmography
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
as Self (archive footage)
Lydia
1941
as Sarah MacMillan
Pride and Prejudice
1940
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Second Fiddle
1939
as Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
as Maggie Sutton
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
as Countess de Mavon
Paradise for Three
1938
as Mrs. Kunkel
Little Miss Broadway
1938
as Sarah Wendling
Rosalie
1937
as Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
as Mrs. Atherton
Parnell
1937
as Aunt Ben Wood
Romeo and Juliet
1936
as Juliet's Nurse
David Copperfield
1935
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
as Miss Pross
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935
as Hildegarde Withers
No More Ladies
1935
as Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
The Last Gentleman
1934
as Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
as Hildegarde Withers
The Poor Rich
1934
as Harriet Spottiswood
We're Rich Again
1934
as Maude Stanley
Alice in Wonderland
1933
as Red Queen
Ann Vickers
1933
as Malvina Wormser
Little Women
1933
as Aunt March
Meet the Baron
1933
as Dean Primrose
Only Yesterday
1933
as Leona
The Great Jasper
1933
as Madame Talma
It's Great to Be Alive
1933
as Dr. Prodwell
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
as Hildegarde Withers
The Conquerors
1932
as Matilda Blake
Ladies of the Jury
1932
as Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
Hold 'Em Jail
1932
as Violet Jones
Laugh and Get Rich
1931
as Sarah Cranston Austin
Cracked Nuts
1931
as Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Cimarron
1931
as Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Fanny Foley Herself
1931
as Fanny Foley
Newly Rich
1931
as Bessie Tate
Half Shot at Sunrise
1930
as Mrs. Marshall
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
as Miss Streeter
The American Venus
1926
as Mrs. Niles
Let's Get Married
1926
as J.W. Smith
Lovers in Quarantine
1925
as Amelia Pincent
The Lucky Devil
1925
as Mrs. McDee
The Lady Who Lied
1925
Icebound
1924
as Hannah
Manhattan
1924
as Mrs. Trapes
Restless Wives
1924
as Benson's Secretary
Wife in Name Only
1923
as Mrs. Dornham
Three O'Clock in the Morning
1923
as Hetty