Emma Dunn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1874-02-24 (92 years old)

Deathday

1966-12-14

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Emma Dunn

Biography

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 La...

Acting

1940

The Great Dictator

as Mrs. Jaeckel

1939

1942

The Postman Didn't Ring

as Martha Carter

1942

The Talk of the Town

as Mrs. Shelley

1941

1947

Life with Father

as Margaret

1941

Ladies in Retirement

as Sister Theresa

1935

The Glass Key

as 'Mom' Madvig

1936

Second Wife

as Mrs. Brown

1948

The Woman in White

as Mrs. Vesey

1932

Blessed Event

as Mrs. Roberts

1937

Madame X

as Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper

1933

Elmer, the Great

as Mrs. Kane

1937

When You're in Love

as Mrs. Hamilton

1941

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1943

Minesweeper

as Mom Smith

1940

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1932

Under Eighteen

as Mrs. Evans (uncredited)

1935

Little Big Shot

as Orphanage Matron

1934

Dr. Monica

as Mrs. Monahan

1944

1931

The Bad Sister

as Mrs. Madison

1932

The Wet Parade

as Mrs. Chilcote

1933

Hard to Handle

as Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)

1937

Varsity Show

as Mrs. Smith

1932

Hell's House

as Emma Clark

1938

The Duke of West Point

as Jack's Mother

1935

The Keeper of the Bees

as Margaret Campbell

1935

1935

1932

It's Tough to Be Famous

as 'Moms' McClenahan

1931

This Modern Age

as Margaret Blake

1938

1931

Morals for Women

as Mrs. Hutson

1937

Circus Girl

as Molly

1939

The Llano Kid

as Doña Teresa

1934

Flirtation

as Mrs. Poole

1936

The Harvester

as Granny Moreland

1940

You Can't Fool Your Wife

as Mother Fields

1940

High School

as Mrs. O'Neill

1934

Dark Hazard

as Mrs. Mayhew

1930

Manslaughter

as Miss Bennett

1938

1938

Three Loves Has Nancy

as Mrs. Briggs

1931

The Guilty Generation

as Nina Palmero

1933

A Man of Sentiment

as Mrs. John Russell Sr.

1938

1937

Hideaway

as Emma Peterson

1932

Letty Lynton

as Mrs. Darrow

1943

Hoosier Holiday

as Molly Baker

1929

Side Street

as Nora O'Farrell

1940

Half a Sinner

as Granny Gladden

1938

Young Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1937

1941

The Penalty

as 'Ma' McCormick

1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1939

Each Dawn I Die

as Mrs. Ross

1935

This Is the Life

as Mrs. Davis

1931

The Prodigal

as Mrs. Farraday

1939

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1931

Compromised

as Mrs. Squires

1936

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

as Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)

1934

The Quitter

as Cordelia Tilford

1932

Broken Lullaby

as Frau Miller

1930

The Texan

as Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra

1944

It Happened Tomorrow

as Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)

1940

Little Orvie

as Mrs. Welty

1947

1944

My Buddy

as Mary Ballinger

1941

1946

1940

Dance, Girl, Dance

as Mrs. Simpson

1940

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

as Mrs. Martha Kildare

1931

Too Young to Marry

as Mrs. Bumpstead

1944

Are These Our Parents?

as Ma Henderson

1942

I Married a Witch

as Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)

1933

1940

One Crowded Night

as Ma Matthews

1924

Pied Piper Malone

as Mother Malone

1933

Private Jones

as Mrs. Jones

1941

Rise and Shine

as Mrs. Murray

1941

The Monster and the Girl

as Aunt Della (uncredited)

1933

Grand Slam

as Reporter

1938

Lord Jeff

as Mrs. Briggs

1931

1941

Scattergood Baines

as Mirandy Baines

1941

1935

Another Face

as Sheila's Mother (uncredited)

1941

Babes on Broadway

as Mrs. Williams

1939

Hero for a Day

as Emmy "Moms" Higgins

1932

1937

The Emperor's Candlesticks

as Anna - Olga's Housekeeper

1914

Mother

as Mrs. Wetherell

1920

Old Lady 31

as Angie Rose

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