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
My Man Godfrey (1957)
as Angelica Bullock
Goodbye Again (1961)
as Mrs. Van der Besh
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Ethel Williams
The Swan (1956)
as Princess Beatrix
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Mrs. Greenleaf
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Albertina Blythe
I Married a Woman (1958)
as Mrs. Blake
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Martha Winters
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self (uncredited)
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
as Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
as Mrs. Chase
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
as Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
A Private's Affair (1959)
as Elizabeth T. Chapman
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
as Grandmother Greher
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
as Mrs. Wright
Derelict (1930)
as Helen Lorber
The Ceremony of Innocence (1970)
as Queen Mother Alfreda