Gladys Cooper
Born: 1888-12-18 in Chiswick, England, UK
Died: 1971-11-17
Known For: Acting
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 Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gladys Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1976
- The Switch as Grand Duchess Ozerov
1971
- The Persuaders! as Grand Duchess Ozerov
1970
- The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens as Mrs. Ternan
1969
- A Nice Girl Like Me as Aunt Mary
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967
- Callan
- The Happiest Millionaire as Aunt Mary Drexel
1966
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Mama Rosha
1964
- The Rogues as Margaret St. Clair
- My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins
1963
- The Outer Limits as Mrs. Palmer
- Burke's Law as Harriet Richards
- The List of Adrian Messenger as Mrs. Karoudjian
- Pygmalion as Mrs. Higgins
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mrs. Raydon
- Going My Way
1961
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Elva Keene
- Adventures in Paradise as Mrs. Maude Harper
1958
- Naked City as Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr.
- Separate Tables as Mrs. Railton-Bell
1957
- The Mystery of Thirteen as Mrs. Palmer
- Circle of the Day as Mrs. Millet
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Marguerite Gillespie
- MGM Parade as self
- The Man Who Loved Redheads as Lady Binfield
1952
- At Sword's Point as Queen Anne
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mrs. Higgins
- Thunder on the Hill as Mother Superior
1949
- The Secret Garden as Mrs. Medlock
- Madame Bovary as Madame Dupuis
1948
- The Pirate as Aunt Inez
- Homecoming as Mrs. Kirby
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Mrs. Hamilton
- Green Dolphin Street as Sophie Patourel
1946
- The Green Years as Grandma Leckie
- The Cockeyed Miracle as Amy Griggs
- Beware of Pity as Mrs. Klara Condor
1945
- The Valley of Decision as Clarissa Scott
- Love Letters as Beatrice Remington
1944
- The White Cliffs of Dover as Jean Ashwood
- Mrs. Parkington as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
1943
- The Song of Bernadette as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
- Mr. Lucky as Captain Veronica Steadman
- Forever and a Day as Mrs. Barringer
- Princess O'Rourke as Miss Haskell
1942
- Now, Voyager as Mrs. Henry Vale
- This Above All as Iris Cathaway
- Eagle Squadron as Aunt Emmeline
1941
- That Hamilton Woman as Lady Francis Nelson
- The Black Cat as Myrna Hartley
- The Gay Falcon as Maxine Wood
1940
- Rebecca as Beatrice Lacy
- Kitty Foyle as Mrs. Strafford
1934
- The Iron Duke as Madame - Duchess d'Angoulème
1923
- Bonnie Prince Charlie as Flora MacDonald
1922
- The Bohemian Girl as Arlene Arnheim
1917
- The Sorrows Of Satan as Lady Sybil Elton
- Masks and Faces as Mabel Vane