Gladys Cooper

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1888-12-18 (83 years old)

Deathday

1971-11-17

Place of Birth

Chiswick, England, UK

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 v...

Acting

1940

Rebecca

as Beatrice Lacy

1963

1967

The Happiest Millionaire

as Aunt Mary Drexel

1942

Now, Voyager

as Mrs. Henry Vale

1948

The Pirate

as Aunt Inez

1941

The Black Cat

as Myrna Hartley

1958

Separate Tables

as Mrs. Railton-Bell

1949

The Secret Garden

as Mrs. Medlock

1943

The Song of Bernadette

as Sister Marie Therese Vauzous

1941

That Hamilton Woman

as Lady Francis Nelson

1945

The Valley of Decision

as Clarissa Scott

1941

The Gay Falcon

as Maxine Wood

1949

Madame Bovary

as Madame Dupuis

1943

Mr. Lucky

as Captain Veronica Steadman

1947

The Bishop's Wife

as Mrs. Hamilton

1944

Mrs. Parkington

as Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt

1944

1951

Thunder on the Hill

as Mother Superior

1946

Beware of Pity

as Mrs. Klara Condor

1946

The Green Years

as Grandma Leckie

1945

Love Letters

as Beatrice Remington

1947

Green Dolphin Street

as Sophie Patourel

1942

This Above All

as Iris Cathaway

1946

1952

At Sword's Point

as Queen Anne

1969

1955

1940

Kitty Foyle

as Mrs. Strafford

1964

My Fair Lady

as Mrs. Higgins

1922

The Bohemian Girl

as Arlene Arnheim

1963

Pygmalion

as Mrs. Higgins

1948

Homecoming

as Mrs. Kirby

1934

The Iron Duke

as Madame - Duchess d'Angoulème

1943

Princess O'Rourke

as Miss Haskell

1942

Eagle Squadron

as Aunt Emmeline

1943

Forever and a Day

as Mrs. Barringer

1923

Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Flora MacDonald

1917

Masks and Faces

as Mabel Vane

1976

The Switch

as Grand Duchess Ozerov

1917

The Sorrows Of Satan

as Lady Sybil Elton

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