Mary Gordon
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett. She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium. She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans. She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.
Known for
Credits
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
as Hans' Wife
The Invisible Man (1933)
as Screaming Woman (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
as Woman (uncredited)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
as Peddler (uncredited)
Fort Apache (1948)
as Ma (barmaid)
Go West (1940)
as Train Passenger (uncredited)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Actor
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
as Mrs. Hudson
The Body Snatcher (1945)
as Mary McBride (uncredited)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
as Cookie (uncredited)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
The Woman in Green (1945)
as Mrs. Hudson
After the Thin Man (1936)
as Rose (uncredited)
Bonnie Scotland (1935)
as Mrs. Bickerdike
Blonde Venus (1932)
as Landlady (uncredited)
Dressed to Kill (1946)
as Mrs. Hudson
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
as Maid (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942)
as Mrs. Hudson
Possessed (1931)
as Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
as Mrs. Hudson
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
as Mrs. Hudson
Riot Squad (1941)
as Mrs. McGonigle
Mary of Scotland (1936)
as Nurse
The Long Night (1947)
as Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
Sealed Lips (1942)
as Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)
as Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
as Mrs. Hudson
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
as Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Madame X (1929)
as Nursemaid (uncredited)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
as Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
as Charwoman (uncredited)
Double Cross (1941)
as Mrs. Murray
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
as Mrs. Hudson
Powder Town (1942)
as Mrs. Douglas
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
as Mrs. Hudson
Wild Girl (1932)
as Washerwoman (uncredited)
Sister Kenny (1946)
as Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)
My Woman (1933)
as Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)
Young People (1940)
as Old Woman (uncredited)
Blond Cheat (1938)
as Maggie (uncredited)
Beauty Parlor (1932)
as Landlady
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
The Invisible Woman (1940)
as Mrs. Bates
The Loudspeaker (1934)
as Landlady
Design for Living (1933)
as Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
as Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
as Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
Saps at Sea (1940)
as Mrs. O'Riley
The Spider Woman (1943)
as Mrs. Hudson
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
as Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)
Brother Orchid (1940)
as Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)
Broadway Serenade (1939)
as Annie (uncredited)
Exposed (1947)
as Housekeeper
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
as Ma Dalton
Call Her Savage (1932)
as Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)
Naughty Nanette (1927)
as Mrs. Rooney
Little Giant (1946)
as Ma Miller
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
as Jane Banning
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
as Hostess (uncredited)
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
as Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)
Sentimental Journey (1946)
as Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)
Murder at the Vanities (1934)
as Assistant Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Tucson (1949)
as Housemother (uncredited)
City Streets (1938)
as Mrs. Devlin
Double Wedding (1937)
as Mrs. Keough
Baby Take a Bow (1934)
as Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)
The Plough and the Stars (1936)
as Woman at Barricades
Appointment for Love (1941)
as Martha
The Brat (1931)
as Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
as Cook (uncredited)
The Black Camel (1931)
as Mrs. MacMasters
Dr. Broadway (1942)
as Broadway Carrie
Pot o' Gold (1941)
as Mom McCorkle
Great Guy (1936)
as Mrs. Ogilvie
The White Angel (1936)
as Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
The Great O'Malley (1937)
as Mrs. O'Malley
Sarong Girl (1943)
as Mattie
Cross Streets (1934)
as Sonny's Mother
Tail Spin (1939)
as Mrs. Lee
The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925)
as Mrs. Tifft
Pick a Star (1937)
as Mrs Watts - The Undertaker’s Wife
Meet the Baron (1933)
as Washer Woman (uncredited)
Her Husband Lies (1937)
as Mrs. Jenks
The Woman Condemned (1934)
as Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
It Started with Eve (1941)
as Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
as Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Vagabond Lady (1935)
as Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Wings of the Navy (1939)
as Irene's Housekeeper
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
as Trina
You Can't Have Everything (1937)
as YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)
One More River (1934)
as Cook (Uncredited)
Secret Command (1944)
as Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)
Doctor Bull (1933)
as Townswoman at Meeting
No, No, Nanette (1940)
as Gertrude, the Cook
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
as Mrs. Collins
Tear Gas Squad (1940)
as Mrs. Sullivan
The World Changes (1933)
as Lady at Party (uncredited)
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
as Landlady
Women Without Names (1940)
as Juror
A House Divided (1931)
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Mannequin (1938)
as Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)
Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
as Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)
The Little Minister (1934)
as Nanny
Texas Cyclone (1932)
as Kate
Skyscraper Souls (1932)
as Charwoman
Kidnapped (1938)
as Mrs. MacDonald
My Son, My Son! (1940)
as Mrs. Mulvaney
The Irish in Us (1935)
as Ma O'Hara
Little Miss Nobody (1936)
as Mrs. Biddle
In Fast Company (1946)
as Mrs. Cassidy
Queen of the Mob (1940)
as Tenement Landlady
Captain Fury (1939)
as Mrs. Bailey
The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
as Annie
Kitty (1945)
as Nanny
Meet the Stewarts (1942)
as Mrs. Stewart
The Judge Steps Out (1947)
as Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)
One Man Justice (1937)
as Bridget
Tessie (1925)
as Aunt Maggie
Anybody's Woman (1930)
as Maid
Fly By Night (1942)
as Ma Prescott
Sweepings (1933)
as Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)
Waterfront Lady (1935)
as Mrs. O'Flaherty
Gateway (1938)
as Scottish Mother
Share the Wealth (1936)
as Ma MacClyde
Captain Eddie (1945)
as Mrs. Westrom
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
as Mrs. O'Leary
I Take This Oath (1940)
as Mrs. Eileen Hanagan
Dynamite (1929)
as Neighbor at Store
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
as Reducing customer (uncredited)
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)
as Scrubwoman (uncredited)
The Defense Rests (1934)
as Scrub Woman
Clancy's Kosher Wedding (1927)
as Molly Clancy
Code of the Streets (1939)
as Mrs. Flaherty
Pilgrimage (1933)
Actor
Half Way to Shanghai (1942)
as Mrs. McIntyre
Day-time Wife (1939)
as Scrubwoman
The Night of Nights (1939)
as 1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
The Plot Thickens (1936)
as Woman with Bag (uncredited)
Let Us Be Gay (1930)
as Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
You're Only Young Once (1937)
as Mary's Mother (uncredited)
The Lady Consents (1936)
as Apple Lady
The Power and the Glory (1933)
as Nurse (uncredited)
Angels' Alley (1948)
as Mrs. Mamie Mahoney
Two Tickets to London (1943)
as Mrs. Tinkle
Hell's Heroes (1929)
as Choir Member (uncredited)
See My Lawyer (1945)
as Mrs. Fillmore
Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
as Newfoundlander
Annie Laurie (1927)
Actor
Tell No Tales (1939)
as Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)
The Old Code (1928)
as Mary MacGregor
24 Hours (1931)
as Nurse
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
as Mrs. Conover
The Marshal Of Mesa City (1939)
as Mrs. Dudley
The Impatient Maiden (1932)
as Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
Whispering Footsteps (1943)
as Ma Murphy
70,000 Witnesses (1932)
as Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Kidnapped (1948)
as Scottish Woman (uncredited)
The Racket Man (1944)
as Mom Benson
Unfinished Business (1941)
as Miss Brady
Roses Are Red (1947)
as Cleaning Lady
Strange Confession (1945)
as Mrs. O'Connor
The Matinee Idol (1928)
as Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Million Dollar Kid (1944)
as Mrs. McGinnis
Flight from Destiny (1941)
as Martha
Rulers of the Sea (1939)
as Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)
The Escape (1939)
as Neighbor
Off the Record (1939)
as Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)
The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
as Landlady (uncredited)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
as Court Matron (uncredited)
Shamrock Hill (1949)
as Grandma Rogan
The Last Ride (1944)
as Mrs. Mary Kelly
Oh, for a Man! (1930)
as Stage Door Admirer with Violets
Bombay Clipper (1942)
as Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson
The Invisible Wall (1947)
as Mrs. Bledsoe
Subway Express (1931)
as Mrs. Delaney
Deputy Marshal (1949)
as Mrs. Lance
The Strange Mrs. Crane (1948)
as Nora
Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
as Cleaning Woman
Divorce (1945)
as Ellen
Stage Struck (1936)
as Mrs. Cassidy
Racketeers of the Range (1939)
as Mary-Benson's Housekeeper
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)
as Mrs. Leathwaite
Smart Guy (1943)
as Maggie
Forgotten Faces (1936)
as Mrs. O'Leary
The Man from Hell (1934)
as Mrs. Frank McCarrol
Radio Patrol (1932)
as Landlady (uncredited)
Big Town Scandal (1948)
as Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
as Kind Landlady
Borrowed Hero (1941)
as Mrs. Riley
Laughing Irish Eyes (1936)
as Mrs. O'Keefe
When the Wind Blows (1930)
as Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
Dancers in the Dark (1932)
as Scrubwoman
The Dark Horse (1946)
as Mrs. Mahoney
Lady Behave! (1937)
as Cook
Here Comes Kelly (1943)
as Mrs. Kelly
Follow the Leader (1944)
Actor
The Ol' Gray Hoss (1928)
as First taxi passenger
Meet the Boy Friend (1937)
as Mrs. Grimes
She Married a Cop (1939)
as Ma Duffy
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
as Mrs. Scott
Keep 'Em Slugging (1943)
as Mrs. Banning
Highway 13 (1948)
as Aunt Myrt Lacy
Law of the Badlands (1945)
Actor
Change of Heart (1934)
as Woman in Street (uncredited)
Is Everybody Happy? (1929)
as Neighbor (uncredited)
Men Must Fight (1933)
as Pacifist Audience Member
Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
as Libby, the Housekeeper
Beloved (1934)
as Mrs. O'Leary
Haunted Trails (1949)
as Aunt Libby
Ginger (1935)
as Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)
Hangman's House (1928)
as The Woman at Hogan's Hideout
Friend Indeed (1937)
as Housekeeper
The Whirlwind (1933)
as Mrs. Curtis
$10 Raise (1935)
as Landlady (uncredited)
Campus Confessions (1938)
as Mrs. Twill
The Last Alarm (1940)
as Mrs. Hadley
West of Wyoming (1950)
as Nora Jones
The Home Maker (1925)
as Mrs. Hennessy
Clues to Adventure (1949)
as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nobody's Children (1940)
as Mary
The Expert (1932)
as Neighbor
Black Paradise (1926)
as Mrs. Murphy
Song o' My Heart (1930)
as Irish Woman
The Ghosts (1930)
as Chubby's Mama
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939)
as Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Roaring Ranch (1930)
as Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
Nature in the Wrong (1933)
as Mrs. Clancy
His Honor the Mayor (1930)
as His Wife