Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975, London) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. She was the daughter of actors Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts and was taken on stage as a three year old. She was married to fellow British actor of stage and screen Edward Cooper

Career

She appeared in numerous plays ,making her theatre debut in London in 1899, having made brief cameos in films since 1917, she started a career in the industry by 1930, in the film version of her play Old English having appeared in her over 90 films and 10 TV episodes in a career that lasted from until retiring 1967. She played Grace Poole in two versions of Jane Eyre, the 1934 Monogram and the 1943 versions.

One of her last roles, for which she is best remembered, was the elderly ornithologist Mrs Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).

Partial filmography

• The Cost of a Kiss (1917)
• Chances (1931)
• Waterloo Bridge (1931)
• Once a Lady (1931)
• White Woman (1933)
• Alice in Wonderland (1933) (uncredited)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• Not So Dusty (1936)
• Kathleen Mavourneen (1937)
• Jane Eyre (1943) (uncredited)
• Music for Millions (1944) as Mrs. McGuff
• The Birds (1963)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)
• Death men don't tell (1941)

External links

• Ethel Griffies at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ethel Griffies at the Internet Movie Database