Gladys Cooper
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Rebecca
as Beatrice Lacy
1940
The List of Adrian Messenger
as Mrs. Karoudjian
1963
The Happiest Millionaire
as Aunt Mary Drexel
1967
Now, Voyager
as Mrs. Henry Vale
1942
The Pirate
as Aunt Inez
1948
The Black Cat
as Myrna Hartley
1941
Separate Tables
as Mrs. Railton-Bell
1958
The Secret Garden
as Mrs. Medlock
1949
The Song of Bernadette
as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous
1943
That Hamilton Woman
as Lady Francis Nelson
1941
The Valley of Decision
as Clarissa Scott
1945
The Gay Falcon
as Maxine Wood
1941
Madame Bovary
as Madame Dupuis
1949
Mr. Lucky
as Captain Veronica Steadman
1943
The Bishop's Wife
as Mrs. Hamilton
1947
Mrs. Parkington
as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt
1944
The White Cliffs of Dover
as Jean Ashwood
1944
Thunder on the Hill
as Mother Superior
1951
Beware of Pity
as Mrs. Klara Condor
1946
The Green Years
as Grandma Leckie
1946
TV Appearances
Burke's Law
as Harriet Richards
1963
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
as Mama Rosha
1966
The Twilight Zone
as Elva Keene
1959
The Twilight Zone
as Millie McKenzie
1959
Naked City
as Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr.
1958
The Persuaders!
as Grand Duchess Ozerov
1971
The Rogues
as Margaret St. Clair
1964
Callan
1967
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Higgins
1951
The Twilight Zone
as Wanda Dunn
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Marguerite Gillespie
1955
Going My Way
1962