Gladys Cooper
Birthday
1888/12/18
Day of death
1971/11/17 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Chiswick, England, UK
Also know as
Dame Gladys Cooper
Biography
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 Maug...Read more
Acting
(1940) Rebecca
as Beatrice Lacy
(1963) The List of Adrian Messenger
as Mrs. Karoudjian
(1967) The Happiest Millionaire
as Aunt Mary Drexel
(1942) Now, Voyager
as Mrs. Henry Vale
(1948) The Pirate
as Aunt Inez
(1941) The Black Cat
as Myrna Hartley
(1958) Separate Tables
as Mrs. Railton-Bell
(1949) The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
(1943) The Song of Bernadette
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
(1941) That Hamilton Woman
as Lady Francis Nelson
(1945) The Valley of Decision
as Clarissa Scott
(1941) The Gay Falcon
as Maxine Wood
(1949) Madame Bovary
as Madame Dupuis
(1943) Mr. Lucky
as Captain Veronica Steadman
(1947) The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Hamilton
(1944) Mrs. Parkington
as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
(1944) The White Cliffs of Dover
as Jean Ashwood
(1951) Thunder on the Hill
as Mother Superior
(1946) Beware of Pity
as Mrs. Klara Condor
(1946) The Green Years
as Grandma Leckie
(1945) Love Letters
as Beatrice Remington
(1947) Green Dolphin Street
as Sophie Patourel
(1942) This Above All
as Iris Cathaway
(1946) The Cockeyed Miracle
as Amy Griggs
(1952) At Sword's Point
as Queen Anne
(1969) A Nice Girl Like Me
as Aunt Mary
(1955) The Man Who Loved Redheads
as Lady Binfield
(1940) Kitty Foyle
as Mrs. Strafford
(1964) My Fair Lady
as Mrs. Higgins
(1922) The Bohemian Girl
as Arlene Arnheim
(1962) Always on Sunday
as ---
(1963) Pygmalion
as Mrs. Higgins
(1948) Homecoming
as Mrs. Kirby
(1934) The Iron Duke
as ---
(1943) Princess O'Rourke
as Miss Haskell
(1942) Eagle Squadron
as Aunt Emmeline
(1943) Forever and a Day
as Mrs. Barringer
(1923) Bonnie Prince Charlie
as Flora MacDonald
(1917) Masks and Faces
as Mabel Vane
(1976) The Switch
as Grand Duchess Ozerov
(1917) The Sorrows Of Satan
as Lady Sybil Elton
(1963) Burke's Law
as Harriet Richards
(1966) The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Millie McKenzie
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Elva Keene
(1958) Naked City
as Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr.
(1971) The Persuaders!
as Grand Duchess Ozerov
(1964) The Rogues
as Margaret St. Clair
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Higgins
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Wanda Dunn
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marguerite Gillespie
(1966) Run, Buddy, Run
as ---
(1962) Going My Way
as ---
(1959) Adventures in Paradise
as Mrs. Maude Harper
(1961) Ben Casey
as ---
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Mrs. Palmer
(1968) The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mrs. Raydon
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Laura