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person_profile-Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn Died at age: 92

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Emma Dunn

Date of Birth:

Feb 24, 1874

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Dec 14, 1966

Biography of

Emma Dunn

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures.

    Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville.

    Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons.

    Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947).

    Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883.

    Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931.

    After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.

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Emma Dunn

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Filmography of

Emma Dunn

Found 90 Movies in total

The Woman in White

Mrs. Vesey ( Actor )

... 1948

Mourning Becomes Electra

Mrs. Borden ( Actor )

... 1947

Life with Father

Margaret ( Actor )

... 1947

The Hoodlum Saint

Maggie ( Actor )

... 1946

My Buddy

Mary Ballinger ( Actor )

... 1944

It Happened Tomorrow

Mrs. Keaver (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1944

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Doña Mercedes ( Actor )

... 1944

Minesweeper

Mom Smith ( Actor )

... 1943

I Married a Witch

Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1942

The Talk of the Town

Mrs. Shelley ( Actor )

... 1942

The Postman Didn't Ring

Martha Carter ( Actor )

... 1942

The Mad Martindales

Agnes ( Actor )

... 1942

Babes on Broadway

Mrs. Williams ( Actor )

... 1941

Rise and Shine

Mrs. Murray ( Actor )

... 1941

Ladies in Retirement

Sister Theresa ( Actor )

... 1941

Scattergood Meets Broadway

Mirandy Baines ( Actor )

... 1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1941

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

Mirandy Baines ( Actor )

... 1941

The Penalty

'Ma' McCormick ( Actor )

... 1941

The Monster and the Girl

Aunt Della (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1941

Scattergood Baines

Mirandy Baines ( Actor )

... 1941

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Martha ( Actor )

... 1941

The Great Dictator

Mrs. Jaeckel ( Actor )

... 1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

Mrs. Simpson ( Actor )

... 1940

One Crowded Night

Ma Matthews ( Actor )

... 1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Mother Fields ( Actor )

... 1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1940

Half a Sinner

Granny Gladden ( Actor )

... 1940

Little Orvie

Mrs. Welty ( Actor )

... 1940

High School

Mrs. O'Neill ( Actor )

... 1940

The Llano Kid

Doña Teresa ( Actor )

... 1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1939

Each Dawn I Die

Mrs. Ross ( Actor )

... 1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1939

Son of Frankenstein

Amelia ( Actor )

... 1939

The Duke of West Point

Jack's Mother ( Actor )

... 1938

The Cowboy and the Lady

Ma Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1938

Thanks for the Memory

Mrs. Platt ( Actor )

... 1938

Young Dr. Kildare

Mrs. Martha Kildare ( Actor )

... 1938

Three Loves Has Nancy

Mrs. Briggs ( Actor )

... 1938

Cowboy from Brooklyn

Ma Hardy ( Actor )

... 1938

Lord Jeff

Mrs. Briggs ( Actor )

... 1938

Madame X

Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper ( Actor )

... 1937

Varsity Show

Mrs. Smith ( Actor )

... 1937

Hideaway

Emma Peterson ( Actor )

... 1937

The Emperor's Candlesticks

Anna - Olga's Housekeeper ( Actor )

... 1937

Waikiki Wedding

Mother ( Actor )

... 1937

Circus Girl

Molly ( Actor )

... 1937

When You're in Love

Mrs. Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1937

Second Wife

Mrs. Brown ( Actor )

... 1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mrs. Meredith (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Another Face

Sheila's Mother (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Seven Keys to Baldpate

Mrs. Quimby ( Actor )

... 1935

This Is the Life

Mrs. Davis ( Actor )

... 1935

Little Big Shot

Orphanage Matron ( Actor )

... 1935

The Keeper of the Bees

Margaret Campbell ( Actor )

... 1935

Ladies Crave Excitement

Mrs. Phelan ( Actor )

... 1935

The Glass Key

'Mom' Madvig ( Actor )

... 1935

George White's 1935 Scandals

Aunt Jane ( Actor )

... 1935

Flirtation

Mrs. Poole ( Actor )

... 1934

Dr. Monica

Mrs. Monahan ( Actor )

... 1934

The Quitter

Cordelia Tilford ( Actor )

... 1934

Dark Hazard

Mrs. Mayhew ( Actor )

... 1934

A Man of Sentiment

Mrs. John Russell Sr. ( Actor )

... 1933

It's Great to Be Alive

Mrs. Wilton ( Actor )

... 1933

Elmer, the Great

Mrs. Kane ( Actor )

... 1933

Private Jones

Mrs. Jones ( Actor )

... 1933

Grand Slam

Reporter ( Actor )

... 1933

Hard to Handle

Mrs. Hawks (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Blessed Event

Mrs. Roberts ( Actor )

... 1932

Letty Lynton

Mrs. Darrow ( Actor )

... 1932

It's Tough to Be Famous

'Moms' McClenahan ( Actor )

... 1932

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

Mrs. Sarah Cohen ( Actor )

... 1932

The Wet Parade

Mrs. Chilcote ( Actor )

... 1932

Hell's House

Emma Clark ( Actor )

... 1932

Broken Lullaby

Frau Miller ( Actor )

... 1932

Under Eighteen

Mrs. Evans (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

The Guilty Generation

Nina Palmero ( Actor )

... 1931

Compromised

Mrs. Squires ( Actor )

... 1931

Morals for Women

Mrs. Hutson ( Actor )

... 1931

Bad Company

Emma ( Actor )

... 1931

This Modern Age

Margaret Blake ( Actor )

... 1931

Too Young to Marry

Mrs. Bumpstead ( Actor )

... 1931

The Bad Sister

Mrs. Madison ( Actor )

... 1931

The Prodigal

Mrs. Farraday ( Actor )

... 1931

Manslaughter

Miss Bennett ( Actor )

... 1930

The Texan

Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra ( Actor )

... 1930

Side Street

Nora O'Farrell ( Actor )

... 1929

Pied Piper Malone

Mother Malone ( Actor )

... 1924