Birthday
1899/09/06
Day of death
1984/04/26 (84 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia May McAvoy (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage, Esther in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and Mary Dale in The Jazz Singer. McAvoy appeared in her first film, entitled Hate, in 1917. After appearing in more than three dozen films, she co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 pr...Read more
(1927) The Jazz Singer
as Mary Dale
(1941) Love Crazy
as Sanity Hearing Secretary (uncredited)
(1925) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Esther
(1940) Third Finger, Left Hand
as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
(1944) Two Girls and a Sailor
as Dowager (uncredited)
(1922) A Homespun Vamp
as Meg Mackenzie
(1922) Clarence
as Cora Wheeler
(1923) Hollywood
as May McAvoy
(1925) Lady Windermere's Fan
as Lady Windermere
(1924) The Bedroom Window
as Ruth Martin
(1926) The Fire Brigade
as Helen Corwin
(1927) Irish Hearts
as Sheila
(1924) Three Women
as Jeannie Wilton
(1950) The Yellow Cab Man
as (uncredited)
(1925) The Mad Whirl
as Cathleen Gillis
(1922) A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
(1918) I'll Say So
as ---
(1921) Morals
as Carlotta Carlotta
(1923) Only 38
as Lucy Stanley
(2000) Gareth Hughes
as Self (archive footage)
(1918) A Perfect Lady
as Claire Higgins
(1952) The Bad and the Beautiful
as Pebbel's Secretary (uncredited)
(1921) A Private Scandal
as Jeanne Millett
(1920) The Devil's Garden
as Norah
(1940) Hollywood: Style Center of the World
as Saleslady
(1923) Her Reputation
as Jacqueline Lanier
(1940) Two Girls on Broadway
as Chatworth's Secretary (uncredited)
(1959) Ben-Hur
as Woman in crowd (uncredited)
(1926) My Old Dutch
as Sal Gratton
(1920) The Truth About Husbands
as Leslie Brownell
(1926) The Savage
as Ysabel Atwater
(1927) A Reno Divorce
as Carla
(1928) The Little Snob
as May Banks
(1940) Phantom Raiders
as Middle Telephone Operator
(1944) Movie Pests
as Woman Whose Vision Gets Blocked (uncredited)
(1926) The Road to Glory
as Judith Allen
(1919) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
as Australy Wiggs
(1941) Ringside Maisie
as 1st Nurse (uncredited)
(1919) The Way of a Woman
as Grace Lee
(1924) The Enchanted Cottage
as Laura Pennington
(1940) Dulcy
as Miss Murphy - Van Dyke's Secretary (uncredited)
(1942) Born to Sing
as (uncredited)
(1948) Luxury Liner
as Woman (uncredited)
(1928) The Lion and the Mouse
as Shirley Ross
(1928) Caught in the Fog
as The Girl
(1928) The Terror
as Olga Redmayne
(1929) Stolen Kisses
as May Lambert
(1929) No Defense
as Ruth Harper
(1921) Sentimental Tommy
as Grizel
(1919) The Woman Under Oath
as Edith Norton
(1950) Mystery Street
as Nurse (uncredited)
(1927) Slightly Used
as Cynthia Martin
(1941) Whispers
as Gossip (uncredited)
(1941) Main Street on the March!
as Window Shopper (uncredited)
(1942) Mr. Blabbermouth!
as ---
(1924) Tarnish
as Letitia Tevis
(1926) The Passionate Quest
as ---
(1927) If I Were Single
as May Howard
(1922) Kick In
as Myrtle
(1941) Sucker List
as Secretary (uncredited)
(1942) Rio Rita
as Hotel Guest (uncredited)
(1922) The Top of New York
as Hilda O'Shaunnessey
(1941) 1-2-3-Go!
as Nurse
(1924) West of the Water Tower
as Bee Chew
(1925) Tessie
as Tessie