Edna May Oliver
Acting
Born: 1883-11-08 · Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1942-11-09
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
🎬 Movies (30)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
Brasileiros em Hollywood
1970
Self (archive footage)
Lydia
1941
Sarah MacMillan
Pride and Prejudice
1940
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Second Fiddle
1939
Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
1939
Maggie Sutton
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939
Countess de Mavon
Paradise for Three
1938
Mrs. Kunkel
Little Miss Broadway
1938
Sarah Wendling
Rosalie
1937
Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
1937
Mrs. Atherton
Parnell
1937
Aunt Ben Wood
Romeo and Juliet
1936
Juliet's Nurse
David Copperfield
1935
Aunt Betsey Trotwood
A Tale of Two Cities
1935
Miss Pross
Murder on a Honeymoon
1935
Hildegarde Withers
No More Ladies
1935
Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
The Last Gentleman
1934
Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
Murder on the Blackboard
1934
Hildegarde Withers
The Poor Rich
1934
Harriet Spottiswood
We're Rich Again
1934
Maude Stanley
Alice in Wonderland
1933
Red Queen
Ann Vickers
1933
Malvina Wormser
Little Women
1933
Aunt March
Meet the Baron
1933
Dean Primrose
Only Yesterday
1933
Leona
The Great Jasper
1933
Madame Talma
It's Great to Be Alive
1933
Dr. Prodwell
The Penguin Pool Murder
1932
Hildegarde Withers