Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1892-07-16

Deathday

1970-08-29 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Lambeth, London, England, UK

Also Known As

Mary Clare Absalom

Mary Clare

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mary Clare (17 July 1892 – 29 August 1970) was a British actress of stage, film and television. In films, she was mainly a character actress, in later life often portraying mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).

Known For

7.4%

The Lady Vanishes

Oct 7, 1938

7.5%

Oliver Twist

Jun 28, 1948

6.6%

Young and Innocent

Nov 1, 1937

6.7%

Moulin Rouge

Dec 23, 1952

6.3%

The Citadel

Oct 29, 1938

6.5%

The Black Rose

Sep 1, 1950

5.9%

The Clairvoyant

Jun 7, 1935

6.5%

The Night Has Eyes

Jun 1, 1942

7.6%

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Sep 1, 1935

5.2%

On the Night of the Fire

Oct 26, 1939

5.9%

The Challenge

Sep 14, 1938

5.9%

Esther Waters

Sep 28, 1948

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Acting

1959

The Price of Silence as Mrs. West

1956

Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Mrs. Wrigley

1954

Mambo as La contessa Luisa Marisoni

1953

The Beggar's Opera as Mrs. Peachum

1952		Moulin Rouge as Madame Loubet
1952		Hindle Wakes as Mrs. Martha Jeffcote
1952		Penny Princess as Maria

1950		Portrait of Clare as Lady Hingston
1950		The Black Rose as Countess Eleanor of Lessford

1949

Cardboard Cavalier as Milady Doverhouse

1948		Esther Waters as Mrs. Latch
1948		Oliver Twist as Mrs. Corney
1948		The Three Weird Sisters as Maude Morgan-Vaughan
1948		My Brother Jonathan as Mrs. Dakers

1947

Mrs. Fitzherbert as Duchess of Devonshire

1946

London Town as Mrs. Gates

1944		One Exciting Night as Mrs. Trout
1944		Fiddlers Three as Volumnia
1944		The Hundred Pound Window as Millie Draper

1942		The Next of Kin as Mrs. Webster
1942		The Night Has Eyes as Mrs. Ranger

1941		The Patient Vanishes as Matron
1941		Old Bill and Son as Maggie

1940		The Briggs Family as Mrs. Briggs
1940		Miss Grant Goes to the Door as Caroline
1940		Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard as Mrs Pym

1939		On the Night of the Fire as Lizzie Crane
1939		A Girl Must Live as Mrs. Wallis
1939		There Ain't No Justice as Ma Mutch

1938		Climbing High as Lady Emily Westaker
1938		The Citadel as Mrs. Orlando
1938		The Lady Vanishes as Baroness Isabel Nisatona
1938		The Challenge as His Mother

1937		The Rat as Mere Colline
1937		Young and Innocent as Erica's Aunt Margaret
1937		The Mill on the Floss as Mrs. Moss

1935		The Guv'nor as Mme. Barsac
1935		The Passing of the Third Floor Back as Mrs. Sharpe
1935		The Clairvoyant as Mother

1934		Lorna Doone as Mistress Sara Ridd
1934		Say It with Flowers as Kate Bishop

1933

The Constant Nymph as Linda Sanger

1931		Keepers of Youth as Mrs. Venner
1931		Bill's Legacy as Mrs. Smithers
1931		Many Waters as Mrs. Rosel
1931		Gipsy Blood as Factory Girl
1931		Hindle Wakes as Mrs. Jeffcote
1931		The Outsider as Mrs. Coates
1931		Shadows as Lily

1929

The Feather as Mrs Dalton

1928

The Constant Nymph as Linda Sanger

1924		Becket as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
1924		Lights of London as Hetty Preene

1922		A Gipsy Cavalier as Janet
1922		A Prince of Lovers as Lady Caroline Lamb

1921

The Skin Game as Chloe Hornblower