Jane Darwell
Born: 1879-10-15 in Palmyra, Missouri, USA
Died: 1967-08-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Darwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1986
- Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2 as (archive footage)
1964
- Mary Poppins as Bird Woman
1963
- Burke's Law as Mrs. Leah Mulligan
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mamie Carnation
1959
- Hound-Dog Man as Grandma Wilson
1958
- The Last Hurrah as Delia
1957
- Maverick as Mrs. Knowles
- The Greer Case as Annie Jackson
- Three Men on a Horse as Lady on Bus
1956
- There's Always Tomorrow as Mme Rogers
- Girls in Prison as Matron Jamieson
- Prima Donna as Lena
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as Mrs. Jacoby
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Lena
- Hit the Deck as Jenny
- A Life at Stake as Landlady
1954
- Lassie
- Climax! as B. Cool
- Studio 57
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1953
- Letter to Loretta as Irene Townsend
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Connelley
- The Sun Shines Bright as Aurora Ratchitt
- It Happens Every Thursday as Mrs. Spatch
- Affair with a Stranger as Ma Stanton
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Minna
- The Ford Television Theatre as Mama Mumby
- We're Not Married! as Mrs. Bush
1951
- The Lemon Drop Kid as 'Nellie Thursday' Regan
- Journey Into Light as Mack
- Excuse My Dust as Mrs. Belden
1950
- Caged as Isolation Matron
- Wagon Master as Sister Ledyard
- Surrender as Molly Hale
- Father's Wild Game as Minerva Bobbin
- Three Husbands as Mrs. Wurdeman
- The Second Face as Mrs. Lockridge
- Redwood Forest Trail as Hattie Hickory
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Mrs. Murphy
1949
- Red Canyon as Aunt Jane
1948
- Studio One as Anna - Maid
- 3 Godfathers as Miss Florie
- Train to Alcatraz as Aunt Ella
1947
- The Red Stallion as Aggie Curtis
- Keeper of the Bees as Mrs. Ferris
1946
- My Darling Clementine as Kate Nelson
- Three Wise Fools as Sister Mary Brigid
- The Dark Horse as Aunt Hattie
1945
- I Live in Grosvenor Square as Mrs. Patterson
- Captain Tugboat Annie as Tugboat Annie
1944
- Tender Comrade as Mrs. Henderson
- The Impatient Years as Minister's wife
- Music in Manhattan as Mrs. Pearson
- Reckless Age as Mrs. Connors
- She's a Sweetheart as Mom
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Ma Grier
- Stage Door Canteen as Jane Darwell
- Government Girl as Miss Trask (uncredited)
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Aunt Emma Forrester
- Family Feud as The Mother
1942
- All Through the Night as Mrs. Donahue
- The Battle of Midway as Narrator (voice)
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Mariah Clemm
- The Great Gildersleeve as Aunt Emma Forrester
- It Happened in Flatbush as Mrs. Maguire
- Men of Texas as Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
- On the Sunny Side as Annie
- Highways by Night as Grandma Fogarty
- Young America as Grandmother Nora Campbell
1941
- All That Money Can Buy as Ma Stone
- Thieves Fall Out as Grandma Allen
- Private Nurse as Miss Adams
- Small Town Deb as Katie
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- Brigham Young as Eliza Kent
- Untamed as Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
- Chad Hanna as Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
- Youth Will Be Served as Supervisor Stormer
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Mrs. Merriwether
- Jesse James as Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
- The Rains Came as Aunt Phoebe Smiley
- 20,000 Men a Year as Mrs. Allen
- The Zero Hour as Sophie
- Unexpected Father as Mrs. Callahan
- Miracle on Main Street as Mrs. Herman
- Grand Jury Secrets as Mrs. Keefe
- Inside Story as Aunt Mary Perkins
1938
- The Jury's Secret as Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
- Little Miss Broadway as Miss Hutchins
- Three Blind Mice as Mrs. Kilian
- Five of a Kind as Nurse Waldron
- Up the River as Mrs. Graham
- Change of Heart as Mrs. Thompson
- Battle of Broadway as Mrs. Rogers
- Time Out for Murder as Polly, Helen's supervisor
1937
- The Singing Marine as Ma Marine
- Fifty Roads to Town as Mrs. Henry
- Dangerously Yours as Aunt Cynthia Barton
- Love Is News as Mrs. Flaherty
- Slave Ship as Mrs. Marlowe
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Mrs. Krueger
- The Great Hospital Mystery as Nurse Sarah Keats
- Lest We Forget as Archive Footage
- Nancy Steele Is Missing! as Mrs. Mary Flaherty
1936
- Private Number as Mrs. Frisby
- Paddy O'Day as Dora
- Poor Little Rich Girl as Woodward
- Craig's Wife as Mrs. Harold
- Little Miss Nobody as Eva Bradley
- Captain January as Mrs. Eliza Croft
- Laughing at Trouble as Glory Bradford
- The Country Doctor as Mrs. Graham
- Star for a Night as Mrs. Martha Lind
- White Fang as Maud Mahoney
- The First Baby as Mrs. Ellis
1935
- Curly Top as Mrs. Denham
- The Gilded Lily as Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)
- We're Only Human as Mrs. Walsh
- Navy Wife as Mrs. Louise Keats
- One More Spring as Mary Sweeney
- Metropolitan as Grandma
- Life Begins at Forty as Ida Harris
- Wig-Wag as Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
- McFadden´s Flats as Nora McFadden
1934
- Bright Eyes as Mrs. Higgins
- Finishing School as Maude (uncredited)
- One Night of Love as Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
- Desirable as Frederick's Mother
- Fashions of 1934 as Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)
- The Scarlet Empress as Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
- Blind Date as Ma Taylor
- Heat Lightning as Gladys
- David Harum as Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
- Change of Heart as Mrs. McGowan
- Journal of a Crime as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
- Cross Country Cruise as Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
- The White Parade as Sailor
- Happiness Ahead as Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
- Once to Every Woman as Mrs. Wood (uncredited)
- Most Precious Thing in Life as Mrs. O'Day
- Million Dollar Ransom as Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
- Let's Talk It Over as Mrs. O'Keefe
- Wonder Bar as Baroness (uncredited)
- Embarrassing Moments as Mrs. Stuckelberger
- Gentlemen Are Born as Landlady
- Tomorrow's Youth as Mary O'Brien
1933
- Design for Living as Curtis' Housekeeper
- Only Yesterday as Mrs. Lane
- Murders in the Zoo as Banquet Guest (uncredited)
- Roman Scandals as Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
- Before Dawn as Mrs. Marble
- Emergency Call as Nurse Brown (uncredited)
- The Girl in 419 as Nurse Esmond
- The Past of Mary Holmes
- Jennie Gerhardt as Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)
- Ann Vickers as Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
- King for a Night as Mrs. Williams
- Bed of Roses as Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)
- Child of Manhattan as Mrs. McGonagle
- One Sunday Afternoon as Mrs. Lind
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
- He Couldn't Take It as Mrs. Case
- Bondage as Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
- Air Hostess as Ma Kearny
1932
- Back Street as Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
- Hot Saturday as Mrs. Brock
- Women Won't Tell as Mrs. Walter Robinson
- Young America as School Teacher (Uncredited)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round as Alice's Aunt
1931
- Ladies of the Big House as Mrs. Turner
- Huckleberry Finn as Widow Douglas
1930
- Tom Sawyer as Widow Douglas
1923
- Little Church Around the Corner as Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)
1920
- The Restless Sex as Housekeeper (uncredited)
1915
- Hypocrites as Madam (uncredited)
- The Goose Girl as Irma
- The Rug Maker's Daughter as Mrs. Van Buren
- After Five as Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy
1914
- The Rose of the Rancho as Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
- The Master Mind as Milwaukee Sadie
- The Only Son as Mrs. Brainerd
- Ready Money as Mrs. Tyler
- Brewster's Millions as Mrs. Dan De Mille