Jessie Royce Landis
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Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Royce Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
North by Northwest (1959)
as Clara Thornhill
To Catch a Thief (1955)
as Jessie Stevens
Airport (1970)
as Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Goodbye Again (1961)
as Mrs. Van der Besh
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Ethel Williams
My Man Godfrey (1957)
as Angelica Bullock
The Swan (1956)
as Princess Beatrix
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Martha Winters
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Charlotte Orr
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
as Grandmother Greher
I Married a Woman (1958)
as Mrs. Blake
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Mrs. Greenleaf
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Albertina Blythe
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self (uncredited)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
as Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
as Mrs. Wright
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
as Mrs. Chase
A Private's Affair (1959)
as Elizabeth T. Chapman
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
as Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
The Ceremony of Innocence (1970)
as Queen Mother Alfreda
Derelict (1930)
as Helen Lorber