1874-02-24 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures. Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville. Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons. Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947). Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883. Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931. After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.
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The Woman in White | Mrs. Vesey | 1948-05-07 |
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Life with Father | Margaret | 1947-09-13 |
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Mourning Becomes Electra | Mrs. Borden | 1947-11-19 |
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The Hoodlum Saint | Maggie | 1946-04-04 |
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Doña Mercedes | 1944-02-11 |
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My Buddy | Mary Ballinger | 1944-10-12 |
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It Happened Tomorrow | Mrs. Keaver (uncredited) | 1944-03-31 |
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Are These Our Parents? | Ma Henderson | 1944-06-27 |
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Minesweeper | Mom Smith | 1943-11-10 |
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Hoosier Holiday | Molly Baker | 1943-09-13 |
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I Married a Witch | Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited) | 1942-10-30 |
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The Mad Martindales | Agnes | 1942-05-15 |
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The Talk of the Town | Mrs. Shelley | 1942-08-20 |
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The Postman Didn't Ring | Martha Carter | 1942-07-03 |
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Ladies in Retirement | Sister Theresa | 1941-09-09 |
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Scattergood Meets Broadway | Mirandy Baines | 1941-08-22 |
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The Penalty | 'Ma' McCormick | 1941-03-13 |
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Rise and Shine | Mrs. Murray | 1941-11-21 |
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith | Martha | 1941-01-31 |
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Scattergood Baines | Mirandy Baines | 1941-02-21 |
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Scattergood Pulls the Strings | Mirandy Baines | 1941-05-23 |
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The Monster and the Girl | Aunt Della (uncredited) | 1941-02-28 |
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1941-08-22 |
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Babes on Broadway | Mrs. Williams | 1941-12-31 |
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One Crowded Night | Ma Matthews | 1940-08-09 |
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You Can't Fool Your Wife | Mother Fields | 1940-05-21 |
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High School | Mrs. O'Neill | 1940-01-26 |
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Yesterday's Heroes | Aunt Winnie | 1940-09-20 |
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Little Orvie | Mrs. Welty | 1940-03-11 |
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The Great Dictator | Mrs. Jaeckel | 1940-10-15 |
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Dance, Girl, Dance | Mrs. Simpson | 1940-08-30 |
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Half a Sinner | Granny Gladden | 1940-04-05 |
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Dr. Kildare Goes Home | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-09-06 |
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Dr. Kildare's Strange Case | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1940-04-12 |
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Calling Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-04-28 |
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Each Dawn I Die | Mrs. Ross | 1939-08-19 |
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The Llano Kid | Doña Teresa | 1939-12-08 |
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Hero for a Day | Emmy "Moms" Higgins | 1939-10-06 |
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Son of Frankenstein | Amelia | 1939-01-13 |
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The Secret of Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1939-11-24 |
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Young Dr. Kildare | Mrs. Martha Kildare | 1938-10-14 |
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Cowboy from Brooklyn | Ma Hardy | 1938-07-09 |
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Three Loves Has Nancy | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-09-02 |
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Thanks for the Memory | Mrs. Platt | 1938-11-11 |
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The Cowboy and the Lady | Ma Hawkins | 1938-11-17 |
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Lord Jeff | Mrs. Briggs | 1938-06-17 |
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The Duke of West Point | Jack's Mother | 1938-12-29 |
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The Emperor's Candlesticks | Anna - Olga's Housekeeper | 1937-07-02 |
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Waikiki Wedding | Mother | 1937-03-23 |
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Hideaway | Emma Peterson | 1937-08-13 |
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Circus Girl | Molly | 1937-03-01 |
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When You're in Love | Mrs. Hamilton | 1937-02-12 |
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Varsity Show | Mrs. Smith | 1937-09-04 |
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Madame X | Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper | 1937-10-01 |
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The Harvester | Granny Moreland | 1936-04-18 |
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Second Wife | Mrs. Brown | 1936-08-21 |
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Mrs. Meredith (uncredited) | 1936-04-09 |
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Another Face | Sheila's Mother (uncredited) | 1935-12-20 |
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Seven Keys to Baldpate | Mrs. Quimby | 1935-12-13 |
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George White's 1935 Scandals | Aunt Jane | 1935-03-29 |
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The Keeper of the Bees | Margaret Campbell | 1935-07-14 |
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The Glass Key | 'Mom' Madvig | 1935-06-15 |
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Ladies Crave Excitement | Mrs. Phelan | 1935-06-21 |
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Little Big Shot | Orphanage Matron | 1935-09-07 |
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This Is the Life | Mrs. Davis | 1935-10-07 |
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Dr. Monica | Mrs. Monahan | 1934-06-23 |
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The Quitter | Cordelia Tilford | 1934-02-05 |
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Dark Hazard | Mrs. Mayhew | 1934-01-31 |
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Flirtation | Mrs. Poole | 1934-11-09 |
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A Man of Sentiment | Mrs. John Russell Sr. | 1933-09-15 |
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Hard to Handle | Mrs. Hawks (uncredited) | 1933-01-28 |
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It's Great to Be Alive | Mrs. Wilton | 1933-07-08 |
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Elmer, the Great | Mrs. Kane | 1933-04-29 |
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Grand Slam | Reporter | 1933-02-22 |
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Private Jones | Mrs. Jones | 1933-03-25 |
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Blessed Event | Mrs. Roberts | 1932-09-10 |
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Under Eighteen | Mrs. Evans (uncredited) | 1932-01-02 |
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The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood | Mrs. Sarah Cohen | 1932-03-27 |
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Hell's House | Emma Clark | 1932-01-30 |
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Letty Lynton | Mrs. Darrow | 1932-04-30 |
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Broken Lullaby | Frau Miller | 1932-01-24 |
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The Wet Parade | Mrs. Chilcote | 1932-03-26 |
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It's Tough to Be Famous | 'Moms' McClenahan | 1932-04-02 |
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Compromised | Mrs. Squires | 1931-11-19 |
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The Prodigal | Mrs. Farraday | 1931-02-21 |
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The Guilty Generation | Nina Palmero | 1931-11-19 |
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Morals for Women | Mrs. Hutson | 1931-10-24 |
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The Bad Sister | Mrs. Madison | 1931-03-29 |
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This Modern Age | Margaret Blake | 1931-08-29 |
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Too Young to Marry | Mrs. Bumpstead | 1931-05-03 |
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Bad Company | Emma | 1931-10-16 |
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Manslaughter | Miss Bennett | 1930-07-22 |
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The Texan | Señora Doña Marguerita Granadas-Ibarra | 1930-05-10 |
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Side Street | Nora O'Farrell | 1929-09-14 |
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Pied Piper Malone | Mother Malone | 1924-02-04 |
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Old Lady 31 | Angie Rose | 1920-05-23 |
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Mother | Mrs. Wetherell | 1914-09-28 |
