Mary Clare
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Mary Clare was an English actress who performed both in films and on the stage.
[edit] Biography
Mary Clare was born in London on 17th July 1894.
She started on the London stage at the age of 16 in 1910. She appeared in the film The Black Spider in 1920, and thereafter divided her time between the sstage and the cinema. On films, she was mainly a character actress. In later life often portraying mature ladies, who had strength of character or were authocratic.
The sole film in which she played the leading role was Mrs Pimm of Scotland Yard in 1939. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcocks films (Young and Innocent and The Lady Vanishes) playing vastly different chacters. She played the same part,Linda Singer, in two different versions of The Constant Nymph, and had previously been in the Stage version. In 1956, she was in several TV ephisodes in British television.
Mary Clare died in London on 29th August 1970.
[edit] Selection of Films and Parts
- Lights of London - 1923 - as Hetty Preene
- The Constant Nymph - 1928 - as Linda Singer
- The Constant Nymph - 1933 - as Linda Singer
- Say it with Flowers - 1934 - as Kate Bishop
- Lorna Doone - 1934 - Mistress Sara Ridd
- Young and Innocent - 1937 - as Aunt Margaret
- The Lady Vanishes - 1938 - as Isabel Nisatona
- Mrs Pimm of Scotland Yard - 1939 - as Mrs Pimm
- On the Night of the Fire - 1940 - as Lizzie Crane
- Old Bill and Son - 1941 - as Maggie
- Next of Kin - 1942 - as Mrs Webster
- Fiddlers Three - 1944 - as Volumnia
- London Town - 1946 - as Mrs Gates
- Oliver Twist - 1948 as Mrs Corney
- The Black Rose - 1950 - as Eloner of Lensford
- Moulin Rouge - 1952 - as Madame Louet
- The Beggers Opera - 1953 - as Mrs Peachum
- The Price of Silence - 1959 - as Mrs West
[edit] Reference
"Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies" - edited by John Walker - Published by Harper-Collins - ISBN 0-06-093507-3
