
Birthday
1892/07/16
Day of death
1970/08/29 (78 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Lambeth, London, England, UK
Also know as
Mary Clare Absalom
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Clare (17 July 1892 – 29 August 1970) was a British actress of stage, film and television. In films, she was mainly a character actress, in later life often portraying mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).

(1938) The Lady Vanishes
as Baroness Isabel Nisatona
(1924) Becket
as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

(1937) Young and Innocent
as Erica's Aunt Margaret

(1948) Oliver Twist
as Mrs. Corney

(1935) The Clairvoyant
as Mother

(1938) The Citadel
as Mrs. Orlando

(1939) There Ain't No Justice
as Ma Mutch

(1939) On the Night of the Fire
as Lizzie Crane

(1935) The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as Mrs. Sharpe

(1942) The Night Has Eyes
as Mrs. Ranger

(1948) Esther Waters
as Mrs. Latch

(1948) The Three Weird Sisters
as Maude Morgan-Vaughan

(1921) The Skin Game
as Chloe Hornblower

(1934) Lorna Doone
as Mistress Sara Ridd

(1940) Miss Grant Goes to the Door
as Caroline

(1937) The Rat
as Mere Colline

(1950) Portrait of Clare
as Lady Hingston

(1949) Cardboard Cavalier
as Milady Doverhouse

(1931) Gipsy Blood
as Factory Girl

(1938) Climbing High
as Lady Emily Westaker

(1946) London Town
as Mrs. Gates
(1933) The Constant Nymph
as Linda Sanger

(1937) The Mill on the Floss
as Mrs. Moss

(1938) The Challenge
as His Mother

(1952) Moulin Rouge
as Madame Loubet

(1939) A Girl Must Live
as Mrs. Wallis

(1948) My Brother Jonathan
as Mrs. Dakers

(1929) The Feather
as Mrs Dalton

(1941) Old Bill and Son
as Maggie

(1931) Hindle Wakes
as Mrs. Jeffcote

(1940) Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
as Mrs Pym
(1934) Say It with Flowers
as Kate Bishop

(1928) The Constant Nymph
as Linda Sanger

(1950) The Black Rose
as Countess Eleanor of Lessford

(1942) The Next of Kin
as Mrs. Webster

(1953) The Beggar's Opera
as Mrs. Peachum

(1935) The Guv'nor
as Mme. Barsac

(1940) The Briggs Family
as Mrs. Briggs
(1944) The Hundred Pound Window
as Millie Draper

(1944) One Exciting Night
as Mrs. Trout

(1931) Bill's Legacy
as Mrs. Smithers
(1931) Keepers of Youth
as Mrs. Venner

(1931) Shadows
as Lily

(1931) Many Waters
as Mrs. Rosel

(1931) The Outsider
as Mrs. Coates

(1941) The Patient Vanishes
as Matron

(1959) The Price of Silence
as Mrs. West

(1952) Hindle Wakes
as Mrs. Martha Jeffcote

(1952) Penny Princess
as Maria

(1944) Fiddlers Three
as Volumnia

(1954) Mambo
as La contessa Luisa Marisoni

(1947) Mrs. Fitzherbert
as Duchess of Devonshire

(1924) Lights of London
as Hetty Preene
(1922) A Gipsy Cavalier
as Janet
(1922) A Prince of Lovers
as Lady Caroline Lamb

(1956) Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Mrs. Wrigley