Mary Gordon

Biography

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

Hans' Wife

Bride of Frankenstein

His Wife

His Honor the Mayor

Mrs. Hudson

The Spider Woman

Chubby's Mama

Las fantasmas

Landlady (uncredited)

Radio Patrol

Mrs. Hudson

Dressed to Kill

Mrs. Keough

Double Wedding

Mary McBride (uncredited)

The Body Snatcher

Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)

It Started with Eve

Mrs. Curtis

The Whirlwind

Mrs. Hudson

The Pearl of Death

Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)

Sealed Lips

Mrs. Hudson

The Woman in Green

Mrs. Delaney

Subway Express

Cookie (uncredited)

The Invisible Man Returns

Mrs. Bates

The Invisible Woman

Mrs. Rooney

Naughty Nanette

Ma Miller

Little Giant

Ma Murphy

Whispering Footsteps

Nanny

The Little Minister

Chubby's Mother (uncredited)

When the Wind Blows

Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)

The Woman Condemned

Mrs. MacMasters

The Black Camel

Mrs. Conover

Shadows Over Chinatown

Mrs. Hudson

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Mrs. Bledsoe

The Invisible Wall

Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed

Mom McCorkle

Pot o' Gold

Law of the Badlands

Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)

Secret Command

Mrs. O'Keefe

Laughing Irish Eyes

Irish Neighbor (uncredited)

The Impatient Maiden

Nurse (uncredited)

The Power and the Glory

1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)

The Night of Nights

Housekeeper

Exposed

Mrs. Mamie Mahoney

Angels' Alley

Mrs. Clancy

Nature in the Wrong

Ma Dalton

When the Daltons Rode

Mrs. Murray

Double Cross

Ellen

Divorce

Washerwoman (uncredited)

Wild Girl

Reducing customer (uncredited)

The Saturday Night Kid

Neighbor (uncredited)

Is Everybody Happy?

Sonny's Mother

Cross Streets

Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)

Sweepings

Choir Member (uncredited)

Hell's Heroes

Maid (uncredited)

The Pride of the Yankees

Mrs. McGonigle

Riot Squad

Mrs. Mary Kelly

The Last Ride

Ma O'Hara

The Irish in Us

First taxi passenger

The Ol' Gray Hoss

Housekeeper

Friend Indeed

Mary

Nobody's Children

Cook

Lady Behave!

Landlady (uncredited)

$10 Raise

Mrs. Riley

Borrowed Hero

Mrs. Lance

Deputy Marshal

Mrs. Grimes

Meet the Boy Friend

Mrs. Biddle

Little Miss Nobody

Mrs. Tinkle

Two Tickets to London

Mrs. Hudson

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Martha

Appointment for Love

Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

Kitty Foyle

Ma (barmaid)

Fort Apache

Mattie

Sarong Girl

Landlady (uncredited)

The Jones Family in Hollywood

Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)

The Brat

Maggie

Smart Guy

Mrs. Devlin

City Streets

Landlady

Beauty Parlor

Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)

Ladies They Talk About

Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

The Long Night

Pacifist Audience Member

Men Must Fight

Follow the Leader

Landlady (uncredited)

Blonde Venus

Grandma Rogan

Shamrock Hill

Nurse

Mary of Scotland

Mrs. Cassidy

Stage Struck

Mrs. Hudson

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Mrs. Hudson

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Mrs. Hudson

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Mrs. Hudson

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)

You Can't Have Everything

Neighbor

The Expert

Mary's Mother (uncredited)

You're Only Young Once

Maggie (uncredited)

Blond Cheat

Woman in Street (uncredited)

Change of Heart

Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)

Tell No Tales

Prison Visitor (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in London

Scrub Woman

The Defense Rests

Townswoman (uncredited)

A House Divided

Nursing Applicant (uncredited)

The White Angel

Mrs. Frank McCarrol

The Man from Hell

Annie

The Hour Before the Dawn

Irene's Housekeeper

Wings of the Navy

Mrs. Lee

Tail Spin

Annie (uncredited)

Broadway Serenade

Mrs. Jenks

Her Husband Lies

Woman (uncredited)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Cleaning Woman

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Scrubwoman

Day-time Wife

Mrs. Dudley

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Neighbor

The Escape

Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)

Big Town Scandal

Mrs. MacDonald

Kidnapped

Mrs. Mahoney

The Dark Horse

Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)

Sister Kenny

Mrs. O'Malley

The Great O'Malley

Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)

The Judge Steps Out

Mrs. Kelly

Here Comes Kelly

Ma Prescott

Fly By Night

Mrs. Stewart

Meet the Stewarts

The Woman at Hogan's Hideout

Hangman's House

Housemother (uncredited)

Tucson

Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)

Design for Living

Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)

Sentimental Journey

Mrs. Collins

It Happened in Flatbush

Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)

Blue, White, and Perfect

Mrs. Ogilvie

Great Guy

Mrs. Eileen Hanagan

I Take This Oath

Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)

Brother Orchid

Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson

Bombay Clipper

Aunt Myrt Lacy

Highway 13

Peddler (uncredited)

Mutiny on the Bounty

Nurse

24 Hours

Train Passenger

Go West

Scrubwoman

Dancers in the Dark

Cleaning Lady

Roses Are Red

Woman at Barricades

The Plough and the Stars

Mrs. Bickerdike

Bonnie Scotland

Mrs. Westrom

Captain Eddie

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

The Matinee Idol

Landlady

The Loudspeaker

Mrs. Flaherty

Code of the Streets

Trina

The Hoodlum Saint

Mrs. Leathwaite

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Scottish Mother

Gateway

Mrs. O'Flaherty

Waterfront Lady

Mrs. O'Riley

Saps at Sea

Mrs. Mulvaney

My Son, My Son!

Gertrude, the Cook

No, No, Nanette

Mary-Benson's Housekeeper

Racketeers of the Range

Mrs. Casey (uncredited)

Gentleman Jim

Mrs. Hadley

The Last Alarm

Old Woman

Young People

Apple Lady

The Lady Consents

Mrs. McGinnis

Million Dollar Kid

Juror

Women Without Names

Jane Banning

The Mummy's Tomb

Assistant Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Murder at the Vanities

Screaming Woman (uncredited)

The Invisible Man

Nora

The Strange Mrs. Crane

Washer Woman (uncredited)

Meet the Baron

Charwoman

Skyscraper Souls

Pilgrimage

Woman with Bag

The Plot Thickens

Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)

Ginger

Mrs. Bailey

Captain Fury

Townswoman at Meeting

Doctor Bull

Mrs. Banning

Keep 'Em Slugging

Mom Benson

The Racket Man

Aunt Libby

Haunted Trails

Nora Jones

West of Wyoming

Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Clues to Adventure

Kate

Texas Cyclone

Irish Woman

Song o' My Heart

Ma MacClyde

Share the Wealth

Nursemaid (uncredited)

Madame X

Mrs. Douglas

Powder Town

Stage Door Admirer with Violets

Oh, for a Man!

Miss Brady

Unfinished Business

Mrs. McIntyre

Half Way to Shanghai

Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)

Off the Record

Mrs. Sullivan

Tear Gas Squad

Landlady

Public Deb No. 1

Mrs. Twill

Campus Confessions

Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)

Roaring Ranch

Mrs. O'Connor

Strange Confession

Scrubwoman (uncredited)

70,000 Witnesses

Libby, the Housekeeper

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)

Pack Up Your Troubles

Mrs. Hennessy

The Home Maker

Broadway Carrie

Dr. Broadway

Mrs. O'Leary

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Mrs. Fillmore

See My Lawyer

Ma Duffy

She Married a Cop

Martha

Flight from Destiny

Mrs. Cassidy

In Fast Company

Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)

Baby Take a Bow

Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)

Rulers of the Sea

Hostess (uncredited)

Hollywood Canteen

Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)

Waterloo Bridge

Cook (Uncredited)

One More River

Boat Passenger (uncredited)

Manhattan Melodrama

Rose (uncredited)

After the Thin Man

Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)

My Woman

Nanny

Kitty

Maid

Anybody's Woman

Charwoman (Uncredited)

The File on Thelma Jordon

Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)

Our Daily Bread

Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

She Done Him Wrong

Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)

Mr. Soft Touch

Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)

Mannequin

Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)

Possessed

Mrs. Murphy

Black Paradise

Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)

Call Her Savage

Cook (uncredited)

A Damsel in Distress

Mrs. O'Leary

Beloved

Scottish Woman (uncredited)

Kidnapped

Tenement Landlady

Queen of the Mob

Mrs. Scott

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Scrubwoman (uncredited)

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Mrs. O'Leary

Forgotten Faces

Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Vagabond Lady

Newfoundlander

Whom the Gods Destroy

Neighbor at Store

Dynamite

Angels with Dirty Faces

Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)

Let Us Be Gay

Aunt Maggie

Tessie

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

219

Gender

Female

Birthday

1882-05-16

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Mary Grace Gordon