Jane Darwell
Born: 1879-10-13 in Palmyra, Missouri, USA
Died: 1967-08-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) 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
- Sincerely, Willis Wade as Mrs. Jacoby
- Prima Donna as Lena
1955
- Matinee Theater
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Lena
- A Life at Stake as Landlady
- Hit the Deck as Jenny
1954
- Lassie
- Climax! as B. Cool
- Studio 57
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1953
- The Bigamist as Mrs. Connelley
- The Sun Shines Bright as Aurora Ratchitt
- Letter to Loretta as Irene Townsend
- 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
- Excuse My Dust as Mrs. Belden
- Journey Into Light as Mack
1950
- Caged as Isolation Matron
- Wagon Master as Sister Ledyard
- Surrender as Molly Hale
- Three Husbands as Mrs. Wurdeman
- The Second Face as Mrs. Lockridge
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady as Mrs. Murphy
- Father's Wild Game as Minerva Bobbin
- Redwood Forest Trail as Hattie Hickory
1949
- Red Canyon as Aunt Jane
1948
- Studio One as Anna - Maid
- 3 Godfathers as Miss Florie
- Train to Alcatraz as Aunt Ella
1947
- Keeper of the Bees as Mrs. Ferris
- The Red Stallion as Aggie Curtis
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
- Reckless Age as Mrs. Connors
- Music in Manhattan as Mrs. Pearson
- She's a Sweetheart as Mom
- The Impatient Years as Minister's wife
1943
- The Ox-Bow Incident as Ma Grier
- Government Girl as Miss Trask (uncredited)
- Stage Door Canteen as Jane Darwell
- Gildersleeve's Bad Day as Aunt Emma Forrester
- Family Feud as The Mother
1942
- Young America as Grandmother Nora Campbell
- The Great Gildersleeve as Aunt Emma Forrester
- The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe as Mariah Clemm
- On the Sunny Side as Annie
- Men of Texas as Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
- The Battle of Midway as Narrator (voice)
- It Happened in Flatbush as Mrs. Maguire
- All Through the Night as Mrs. Donahue
- Highways by Night as Grandma Fogarty
1941
- Private Nurse as Miss Adams
- All That Money Can Buy as Ma Stone
- Thieves Fall Out as Grandma Allen
- Small Town Deb as Katie
1940
- The Grapes of Wrath as Ma Joad
- Brigham Young as Eliza Kent
- Youth Will Be Served as Supervisor Stormer
- Chad Hanna as Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
- Untamed as Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Mrs. Merriwether
- Unexpected Father as Mrs. Callahan
- Jesse James as Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
- Inside Story as Aunt Mary Perkins
- Miracle on Main Street as Mrs. Herman
- The Rains Came as Aunt Phoebe Smiley
- The Zero Hour as Sophie
- Grand Jury Secrets as Mrs. Keefe
- 20,000 Men a Year as Mrs. Allen
1938
- Three Blind Mice as Mrs. Kilian
- Little Miss Broadway as Miss Hutchins
- Up the River as Mrs. Graham
- The Jury's Secret as Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
- Time Out for Murder as Polly, Helen's supervisor
- Change of Heart as Mrs. Thompson
- Battle of Broadway as Mrs. Rogers
- Five of a Kind as Nurse Waldron
1937
- Dangerously Yours as Aunt Cynthia Barton
- Nancy Steele Is Missing! as Mrs. Mary Flaherty
- Love Is News as Mrs. Flaherty
- Fifty Roads to Town as Mrs. Henry
- Slave Ship as Mrs. Marlowe
- The Singing Marine as Ma Marine
- The Great Hospital Mystery as Nurse Sarah Keats
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Mrs. Krueger
- Lest We Forget as Archive Footage
1936
- Captain January as Mrs. Eliza Croft
- Private Number as Mrs. Frisby
- Craig's Wife as Mrs. Harold
- Laughing at Trouble as Glory Bradford
- Star for a Night as Mrs. Martha Lind
- Paddy O'Day as Dora
- The First Baby as Mrs. Ellis
- Little Miss Nobody as Eva Bradley
- White Fang as Maud Mahoney
- Poor Little Rich Girl as Woodward
- The Country Doctor as Mrs. Graham
1935
- Curly Top as Mrs. Denham
- Metropolitan as Grandma
- Navy Wife as Mrs. Louise Keats
- The Gilded Lily as Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)
- One More Spring as Mary Sweeney
- We're Only Human as Mrs. Walsh
- McFadden´s Flats as Nora McFadden
- Life Begins at Forty as Ida Harris
- Wig-Wag as Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
1934
- Bright Eyes as Mrs. Higgins
- Happiness Ahead as Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
- Wonder Bar as Baroness (uncredited)
- Blind Date as Ma Taylor
- Heat Lightning as Gladys - the Wife
- The Scarlet Empress as Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
- Journal of a Crime as Dinner Guest (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Ransom as Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
- One Night of Love as Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
- Change of Heart as Mrs. McGowan
- Let's Talk It Over as Mrs. O'Keefe
- Fashions of 1934 as Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)
- Gentlemen Are Born as Landlady
- The White Parade as Sailor
- Once to Every Woman as Mrs. Wood (uncredited)
- Desirable as Frederick's Mother
- Tomorrow's Youth as Mary O'Brien
- Most Precious Thing in Life as Mrs. O'Day
- Finishing School as Maude (uncredited)
- Embarrassing Moments as Mrs. Stuckelberger
- David Harum as Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
- Cross Country Cruise as Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
1933
- Emergency Call as Nurse Brown (uncredited)
- Jennie Gerhardt as Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)
- Ann Vickers as Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
- Roman Scandals as Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
- Only Yesterday as Mrs. Lane
- Murders in the Zoo as Banquet Guest (uncredited)
- Before Dawn as Mrs. Marble
- Design for Living as Curtis' Housekeeper
- One Sunday Afternoon as Mrs. Lind
- Bed of Roses as Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)
- Child of Manhattan as Mrs. McGonagle
- Bondage as Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
- The Past of Mary Holmes
- The Girl in 419 as Nurse Esmond
- Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men as Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
- King for a Night as Mrs. Williams
- Air Hostess as Ma Kearny
- He Couldn't Take It as Mrs. Case
1932
- Back Street as Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
- Young America as School Teacher (Uncredited)
- Hot Saturday as Mrs. Brock
- Washington Merry-Go-Round as Alice's Aunt
- Women Won't Tell as Mrs. Walter Robinson
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
- Ready Money as Mrs. Tyler
- Brewster's Millions as Mrs. Dan De Mille
- The Rose of the Rancho as Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
- The Master Mind as Milwaukee Sadie
- The Only Son as Mrs. Brainerd