Aline MacMahon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1899-05-03 (92 years old)

Deathday

1991-10-12

Place of Birth

McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Aline MacMahon

Biography

Aline MacMahon was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She worked extensively from 1921, when she began appearing on Broadway, until her full retirement from acting in 1975. MacMahon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1944 film Dragon Seed.

Acting

1943

Seeds of Freedom

as Odessa Citizen

1950

The Flame and the Arrow

as Nonna Bartoli

1941

Out of the Fog

as Florence Goodwin

1932

One Way Passage

as Countess Barilhaus

1948

The Search

as Mrs. Murray

1944

Guest in the House

as Aunt Martha Proctor

1931

Five Star Final

as Miss Taylor

1939

Back Door to Heaven

as Miss Williams

1960

Cimarron

as Mrs. Mavis Pegler

1933

Heroes for Sale

as Mary Dennis

1937

When You're in Love

as Marianne Woods

1932

Silver Dollar

as Sarah Martin

1934

1935

Ah, Wilderness!

as Cousin Lily

1963

All the Way Home

as Aunt Hannah

1944

Dragon Seed

as Ling Tan's Wife

1947

The Mighty McGurk

as Mamie Steeple

1932

The Mouthpiece

as Miss Hickey, Day's Secretary

1932

Week-End Marriage

as Agnes Davis

1935

While the Patient Slept

as Nurse Sarah Keate

1932

Life Begins

as Miss Bowers

1934

The Merry Frinks

as Hattie 'Mom' Frink

1934

Big Hearted Herbert

as Elizabeth Kalness

1934

Babbitt

as Myra Babbitt

1935

Mary Jane's Pa

as Ellen Preston

1961

The Young Doctors

as Dr. Lucy Grainger

1974

Antigone

as Nurse

1935

Kind Lady

as Mary Herries

1949

Roseanna McCoy

as Sarie McCoy

1934

Side Streets

as Bertha Krasnoff

1933

The World Changes

as Anna Nordholm

1935

I Live My Life

as Betty Collins

1959

Medea

as The Nurse

1953

The Eddie Cantor Story

as Grandma Esther

1942

Tish

as Lizzie Wilkins

1962

Diamond Head

as Kapiolani Kahana

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as Aline MacMahon

1932

Once in a Lifetime

as May Daniels

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1944

Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1944

Reward Unlimited

as Mrs. Scott

1955

The Man from Laramie

as Kate Canaday

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