Edna May Oliver
Birthday
1883/11/08
Day of death
1942/11/09 (59 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Also know as
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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 ...Read more
Acting
(1933) Alice in Wonderland
as Red Queen
(1937) Rosalie
as Queen of Romanza
(1933) Ann Vickers
as Malvina Wormser
(1939) Second Fiddle
as Aunt Phoebe
(1936) Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet's Nurse
(1935) David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
(1935) A Tale of Two Cities
as Miss Pross
(1933) Little Women
as Aunt March
(1939) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Maggie Sutton
(1939) Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
(1941) Lydia
as Sarah MacMillan
(1932) The Penguin Pool Murder
as Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
(1935) Murder on a Honeymoon
as Hildegarde Withers
(1930) Half Shot at Sunrise
as Mrs. Marshall
(1935) No More Ladies
as Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
(1933) Meet the Baron
as Dean Primrose
(1929) The Saturday Night Kid
as Miss Streeter
(1934) The Last Gentleman
as Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
(1937) My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Atherton
(1934) Murder on the Blackboard
as Hildegarde Withers
(1934) The Poor Rich
as Harriet Spottiswood
(1931) Laugh and Get Rich
as Sarah Cranston Austin
(1999) Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
(1934) We're Rich Again
as Maude Stanley
(1938) Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Kunkel
(1932) The Conquerors
as Matilda Blake
(1937) Parnell
as Aunt Ben Wood
(1939) Nurse Edith Cavell
as Countess de Mavon
(1931) Cracked Nuts
as Aunt Minnie Van Varden
(1938) Little Miss Broadway
as Sarah Wendling
(1932) Ladies of the Jury
as Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
(1933) Only Yesterday
as Leona
(1924) Icebound
as Hannah
(1933) The Great Jasper
as Madame Talma
(1931) Cimarron
as Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
(1931) Fanny Foley Herself
as Fanny Foley
(1932) Hold 'Em Jail
as Violet Jones
(1940) Pride and Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
(1931) Newly Rich
as Bessie Tate
(1926) The American Venus
as Mrs. Niles
(1933) It's Great to Be Alive
as Dr. Prodwell
(1926) Let's Get Married
as J.W. Smith
(1925) Lovers in Quarantine
as Amelia Pincent
(1925) The Lucky Devil
as Mrs. McDee
(1923) Wife in Name Only
as Mrs. Dornham
(1923) Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Hetty
(1924) Manhattan
as Mrs. Trapes
(1925) The Lady Who Lied
as ---
(1924) Restless Wives
as Benson's Secretary