Birthday
1881/10/15
Day of death
1967/12/04 (86 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Sunderland, England, UK
Also know as
Sarah Ann Padden, Sara Padden
Sarah Padden was a character actress in theater and vaudeville from Chicago, Illinois. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. She is noted for her expressive voice and for her psychological studies of the characters she portrayed. Her finest single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War. Padden was a featured player on the Orpheum Circuit, Inc.. She had a role in His Grace de Grammon...Read more
(1932) Blondie of the Follies
as Ma McClune
(1946) So Goes My Love
as Bridget
(1950) House by the River
as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
(1944) The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)
(1943) Hangmen Also Die!
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
(1958) Screaming Mimi
as Landlady
(1948) The Return of the Whistler
as Mrs. Hulskamp
(1945) Apology for Murder
as Maggie
(1941) A Woman's Face
as Police Matron
(1933) The Sin of Nora Moran
as Mrs. Watts
(1933) Ann Vickers
as Lil
(1935) The Hoosier Schoolmaster
as Sarah
(1932) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
as Mrs Cobb
(1943) Family Troubles
as Mrs. Jones
(1927) The Woman Who Did Not Care
as Mrs. Carroll
(1933) The Power and the Glory
as Henry's Wife
(1938) Women in Prison
as Martha Wilson
(1930) Hide-Out
as Mrs. Dorgan
(1942) The Mad Monster
as Grandmother
(1942) Heart of the Rio Grande
as 'Skipper' Forbes
(1932) Cross-Examination
as Mary Stevens
(1926) Obey the Law
as The Mother
(1942) Riders of the West
as Ma Turner
(1932) Wild Girl
as Lize
(1930) Billy the Kid
as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)
(1958) Girl with an Itch
as Cookie
(1934) He Was Her Man
as Mrs. Gardella
(1942) The Pride of the Yankees
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
(1932) The Midnight Lady
as Nita St. George
(1938) Rich Man, Poor Girl
as Ma
(1945) Riders of the Dawn
as Melinda Pringle
(1943) Assignment in Brittany
as Albertine
(1941) City of Missing Girls
as Mrs. Randolph
(1937) Youth on Parole
as Mrs. Blair
(1944) Girl Rush
as Mrs. Emma Mason
(1946) That Brennan Girl
as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady
(1945) The Master Key
as Aggie
(1937) Exiled to Shanghai
as Aunt Jane
(1931) The Great Meadow
as Mistress Molly Hall
(1934) David Harum
as Widow
(1932) Women Won't Tell
as Aggie Specks
(1942) Private Snuffy Smith
as Lowizie Smith
(1932) Tess of the Storm Country
as Old Martha
(1933) Face in the Sky
as Ma Brown
(1934) The Defense Rests
as Mrs. Evans
(1944) Casanova Brown
as Mrs. Smith
(1933) The Important Witness
as Deaf Woman
(1938) Romance of the Limberlost
as Sarah
(1932) Young America
as Mrs. Mary Taylor
(1934) As the Earth Turns
as Mrs. Janowski
(1948) The Dude Goes West
as Mrs. Hallihan
(1940) Chad Hanna
as Mrs. Todd
(1930) Today
as Emma Warner
(1945) Wildfire
as Aunt Agatha
(1939) The Zero Hour
as Sister Theodosia
(1935) A Dog of Flanders
as Frau Keller
(1929) The Sophomore
as Mrs. Collins
(1938) Woman Against Woman
as Dora
(1943) So This Is Washington
as Aunt Charity Speers
(1939) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)
(1939) Let Freedom Ring
as 'Ma' Logan
(1944) Summer Storm
as Beggar Woman (uncredited)
(1932) Kongo
as Nun (uncredited)
(1946) Idea Girl
as Old Lady
(1931) The Yellow Ticket
as Mother Kalish
(1948) Frontier Revenge
as Widow Owens
(1939) Should a Girl Marry?
as Mrs. Wilson
(1934) Man of Two Worlds
as Olago
(1941) Reg'lar Fellers
as Hetty Carter
(1945) Dakota
as Mrs. Plummer
(1942) This Gun for Hire
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
(1940) Lone Star Raiders
as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps
(1941) Murder by Invitation
as Cassandra Hildegard Denham
(1942) Law and Order
as Mary Todd
(1941) In Old Colorado
as Ma Harriet Woods
(1938) Little Tough Guys in Society
as Victim
(1932) Red-Headed Woman
as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)
(1940) Son of the Navy
as Mrs. Baker - Landlady
(1944) San Diego I Love You
as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)
(1933) Pilgrimage
as ---
(1931) Bad Girl
as Mrs. Gardner
(1950) Gunslingers
as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins
(1950) The Missourians
as Mother Kovacs
(1951) Utah Wagon Train
as Sarah Wendover
(1945) Marshal of Laredo
as Mrs. Randall
(1933) Doctor Bull
as Mary the Canning Cook
(1952) Big Jim McLain
as Mrs. Lexiter
(1930) Trifles
as Mrs. Wright
(1944) Ghost Guns
as Aunt Sally
(1947) Love and Learn
as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
(1944) Range Law
as Boots Annie
(1944) Trail to Gunsight
as Grandma Wagner
(1945) Song of Old Wyoming
as Ma Conway
(1946) Wild West
as Carrie Bannister
(1950) Again Pioneers
as Ma Ashby
(1947) Ramrod
as Mrs. Parks
(1949) Range Justice
as Ma Curtis
(1942) Wild Bill Hickok Rides
as Mrs. Kimball
(1955) Prince of Players
as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
(1941) The Man Who Lost Himself
as Maid
(1946) My Dog Shep
as Carrie Hodgkins
(1932) Grand Hotel
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
(1941) The Corsican Brothers
as Nurse
(1931) Mata Hari
as Sister Teresa (uncredited)
(1932) Rasputin and the Empress
as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)
(1938) Little Orphan Annie
as Mrs. Nora Moriarty
(1939) I Stole a Million
as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)
(1942) The Power of God
as Esther Worne
(1939) Off the Record
as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)
(1935) Anna Karenina
as Governess
(1927) The Bugle Call
as Luke's Wife
(1935) Stranded
as Workman's Wife (uncredited)
(1929) Wonder of Women
as Anna
(1944) The Navy Way
as Mrs. Margaret Gimble
(1946) Joe Palooka, Champ
as Mom Palooka
(1948) Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
as Mom Palooka
(1950) A Life of Her Own
as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
(1949) Homicide
as Mrs. Webb
(1946) Angel on My Shoulder
as Agatha (uncredited)
(1956) The Kettles in the Ozarks
as Mrs. Tinware
(1945) Identity Unknown
as Mrs. Anderson
(1940) Forgotten Girls
as Miss Donaldson
(1947) Joe Palooka in the Knockout
as Mom Palooka
(1946) Gentleman Joe Palooka
as Mom Palooka
(1935) Mad Love
as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)
(1931) Sob Sister
as Ma Stevens
(1942) Lady in a Jam
as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)
(1928) Companionate Marriage
as Mrs. Williams
(1950) The Cisco Kid
as Mrs. Smiley
(1952) Adventures of Superman
as Mrs. Carmody
(1949) The Lone Ranger
as Grandma Williams
(1953) The Life Of Riley
as Martha Riley
(1953) The Life Of Riley
as Ma Riley
(1954) Public Defender
as Eula Mae Carter
(1953) Letter to Loretta
as Frau Lang
(1951) Dragnet
as ---
(1952) The Abbott and Costello Show
as Old Lady on Street
(1950) The Cisco Kid
as Sara