Mary Clare

Mary Clare

Born: July 16, 1892
Died: August 29, 1970
in Lambeth, London, England, UK
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Mary Clare (17 July 1892 – 29 August 1970) was a British actress of stage, film and television. In films, she was mainly a character actress, in later life often portraying mature ladies who had strength of character or were autocratic. She appeared in two of the British-made Alfred Hitchcock films, Young and Innocent (1937) and The Lady Vanishes (1938).

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The Price of Silence
Title: The Price of Silence
Character: Mrs. West
Released: June 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Mrs. Wrigley
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Mambo
Title: Mambo
Character: La contessa Luisa Marisoni
Released: September 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
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The Beggar's Opera
Title: The Beggar's Opera
Character: Mrs. Peachum
Released: August 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Madame Loubet
Released: December 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Born into aristocracy, Toulouse-Lautrec moves to Paris to pursue his art as he hangs out at the Moulin Rouge where he feels like he fits in being a misfit among other misfits. Yet, because of the deformity of his legs from an accident, he believes he is never destined to experience the true love of a woman. But that lack of love in his life may change as he meets two women
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Mrs. Martha Jeffcote
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
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Penny Princess
Title: Penny Princess
Character: Maria
Released: March 24, 1952
Type: Movie
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Lady Hingston
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Countess Eleanor of Lessford
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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Cardboard Cavalier
Title: Cardboard Cavalier
Character: Milady Doverhouse
Released: March 31, 1949
Type: Movie
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
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Esther Waters
Title: Esther Waters
Character: Mrs. Latch
Released: September 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Mrs. Corney
Released: June 28, 1948
Type: Movie
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The Three Weird Sisters
Title: The Three Weird Sisters
Character: Maude Morgan-Vaughan
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
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My Brother Jonathan
Title: My Brother Jonathan
Character: Mrs. Dakers
Released: February 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Duchess of Devonshire
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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London Town
Title: London Town
Character: Mrs. Gates
Released: September 30, 1946
Type: Movie
Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as merely an understudy and bit player. His faithful daughter pulls a few fast ones in order to get her dad back on stage in a starring role....
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One Exciting Night
Title: One Exciting Night
Character: Mrs. Trout
Released: December 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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Fiddlers Three
Title: Fiddlers Three
Character: Volumnia
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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The Hundred Pound Window
Title: The Hundred Pound Window
Character: Millie Draper
Released: April 3, 1944
Type: Movie
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
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The Next of Kin
Title: The Next of Kin
Character: Mrs. Webster
Released: June 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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The Night Has Eyes
Title: The Night Has Eyes
Character: Mrs. Ranger
Released: June 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
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The Patient Vanishes
Title: The Patient Vanishes
Character: Matron
Released: July 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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Old Bill and Son
Title: Old Bill and Son
Character: Maggie
Released: March 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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The Briggs Family
Title: The Briggs Family
Character: Mrs. Briggs
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Title: Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Character: Caroline
Released: September 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
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Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
Title: Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
Character: Mrs Pym
Released: April 13, 1940
Type: Movie
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
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On The Night Of The Fire
Title: On The Night Of The Fire
Character: Lizzie Crane
Released: October 26, 1939
Type: Movie
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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A Girl Must Live
Title: A Girl Must Live
Character: Mrs. Wallis
Released: September 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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There Ain't No Justice
Title: There Ain't No Justice
Character: Ma Mutch
Released: June 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
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Climbing High
Title: Climbing High
Character: Lady Emily Westaker
Released: October 31, 1938
Type: Movie
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
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The Citadel
Title: The Citadel
Character: Mrs. Orlando
Released: October 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Baroness Isabel Nisatona
Released: October 7, 1938
Type: Movie
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: His Mother
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Mere Colline
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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Young and Innocent
Title: Young and Innocent
Character: Erica's Aunt Margaret
Released: November 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Mrs. Moss
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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The Guv'nor
Title: The Guv'nor
Character: Mme. Barsac
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings and becomes the president of a bank.
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Title: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Character: Mrs. Sharpe
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
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The Clairvoyant
Title: The Clairvoyant
Character: Mother
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
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Lorna Doone
Title: Lorna Doone
Character: Mistress Sara Ridd
Released: December 9, 1934
Type: Movie
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
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Say It with Flowers
Title: Say It with Flowers
Character: Kate Bishop
Released: May 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Linda Sanger
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with world-famous composer Lewis Dodd (Brian Aherne), who marries her wealthy cousin Florence (Leonora Corbett). Undermining the already delicate Tessa’s health, the composer realises that life without Tessa is unbearable and leaves his unloving wife – but sadly too late.
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Keepers of Youth
Title: Keepers of Youth
Character: Mrs. Venner
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
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Bill's Legacy
Title: Bill's Legacy
Character: Mrs. Smithers
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.
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Many Waters
Title: Many Waters
Character: Mrs. Rosel
Released: November 1, 1931
Type: Movie
An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
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Gipsy Blood
Title: Gipsy Blood
Character: Factory Girl
Released: October 30, 1931
Type: Movie
In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Mrs. Jeffcote
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Mrs. Coates
Released: April 20, 1931
Type: Movie
An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
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Shadows
Title: Shadows
Character: Lily
Released: March 31, 1931
Type: Movie
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
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The Feather
Title: The Feather
Character: Mrs Dalton
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)
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The Constant Nymph
Title: The Constant Nymph
Character: Linda Sanger
Released: February 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined
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Becket
Title: Becket
Character: Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
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The Skin Game
Title: The Skin Game
Character: Chloe Hornblower
Released: January 7, 1921
Type: Movie
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village. The original silent version of a film Hitchcock later adapted with sound.