Edna May Oliver
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1883-11-08 (59 years old)
Deathday
1942-11-09
Place of Birth
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Also known As
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Edna May Oliver
Biography
Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters. She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater. Despite abandoning traditional schooling, Edna continued to study the performing arts, including speech and piano. One ...
Acting
1933
as Red Queen
1937
as Queen of Romanza
1933
as Malvina Wormser
1939
as Aunt Phoebe
1936
as Juliet's Nurse
1935
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
1935
as Miss Pross
1933
as Aunt March
1939
as Maggie Sutton
1939
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
1941
as Sarah MacMillan
1932
as Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
1935
as Hildegarde Withers
1930
as Mrs. Marshall
1935
as Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
1933
as Dean Primrose
1929
as Miss Streeter
1937
as Mrs. Atherton
1934
as Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
1934
as Hildegarde Withers
1934
as Harriet Spottiswood
1931
as Sarah Cranston Austin
1999
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1934
as Maude Stanley
1938
as Mrs. Kunkel
1932
as Matilda Blake
1937
as Aunt Ben Wood
1939
as Countess de Mavon
1931
as Aunt Minnie Van Varden
1938
as Sarah Wendling
1932
as Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
1933
as Leona
1924
as Hannah
1933
as Madame Talma
1931
as Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
1931
as Fanny Foley
1932
as Violet Jones
1940
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
1931
as Bessie Tate
1926
as Mrs. Niles
1933
as Dr. Prodwell
1926
as J.W. Smith
1925
as Amelia Pincent
1925
as Mrs. McDee
1923
as Mrs. Dornham
1923
as Hetty
1924
as Mrs. Trapes
1924
as Benson's Secretary
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