Jessie Ralph

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1864-11-04 (80 years old)

Deathday

1944-05-30

Place of Birth

Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA

Jessie Ralph

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ralph (born Jessie Ralph Chambers, November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures. She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, in a motion picture career that would eventually span 25 years, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this ti...

Acting

1940

The Bank Dick

as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch

1937

Double Wedding

as Mrs. Kensington-Bly

1936

1936

After the Thin Man

as Aunt Katherine Forrest

1936

Camille

as Nanine

1935

Les Misérables

as Madame Magloire

1933

Elmer, the Great

as Sarah Crosby (uncredited)

1935

Captain Blood

as Mrs. Barlow

1934

Murder at the Vanities

as Mrs. Helene Smith

1939

1933

Cocktail Hour

as Princess

1934

Evelyn Prentice

as Mrs. Blake

1937

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

as The Duchess of Ebley

1934

1933

Child of Manhattan

as Aunt Minnie

1934

1941

The Lady from Cheyenne

as Mrs. McGuinness

1938

1939

The Kid From Texas

as Aunt Minetta

1935

Enchanted April

as Mrs. Phoebe Fisher

1936

The Unguarded Hour

as Lady Agatha Hathaway

1936

Bunker Bean

as Grandmother

1938

Love Is a Headache

as Sheriff Janet Winfield

1940

I Want a Divorce

as Grandma Brokaw

1935

Metropolitan

as Charwoman

1938

Hold That Kiss

as Aunt Lucy

1935

David Copperfield

as Clara Peggotty

1936

Walking on Air

as Evelyn Bennett

1934

We Live Again

as Matrona Pavlovna

1934

Nana

as Zoe

1936

Yellow Dust

as Mrs. Brian

1940

The Blue Bird

as Fairy Berylune

1940

Star Dust

as Aunt Martha Parker

1935

Paris in Spring

as Countess de Charelle

1939

Cafe Society

as Mrs. De Witt

1939

Four Girls in White

as Miss Tobias

1935

Jalna

as Gran Whiteoaks

1939

Mickey the Kid

as Veronica Hudson

1939

St. Louis Blues

as Aunt Tibbie

1935

I Live My Life

as Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother

1935

1937

1936

1941

They Met in Bombay

as Duchess of Beltravers

1936

San Francisco

as Mrs. Maisie Burley

1935

1934

1940

The Girl from Avenue A

as Mrs. Van Dyne

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