Ethel Griffies

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Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire - 9 September 1975, London) was a British actress of stage, screen, and television. She appeared in numerous plays, 90 movies, and 10 TV episodes in a career that lasted from 1881 -- when she was brought onstage as a baby by her parents -- until 1965. One of her last roles was as the elderly ornithologist in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).