Margaret Wycherly

Margaret Wycherly

Born: October 26, 1881
Died: June 6, 1956
in London, England, UK
Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (born Margaret De Wolfe, 26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress.[2] She spent many years in the United States and is best remembered for her Broadway roles and Hollywood character parts. On screen she played mother to Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) and James Cagney (White Heat).

Movies for Margaret Wycherly...

The President's Lady
Title: The President's Lady
Character: Mrs. Robards
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
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Title: General Electric Theater
Character: Housekeeper
Released: February 1, 1953
Type: TV
General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
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The Man with a Cloak
Title: The Man with a Cloak
Character: Mrs. Flynn, the housekeeper
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mrs. Dowey
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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Title: Lux Video Theatre
Character: Mrs. Murchison
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: TV
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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White Heat
Title: White Heat
Character: Ma Jarrett
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Mrs. Page
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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The Loves of Carmen
Title: The Loves of Carmen
Character: Old Crone
Released: August 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
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Forever Amber
Title: Forever Amber
Character: Mrs. Spong
Released: October 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
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Something in the Wind
Title: Something in the Wind
Character: Grandma Read
Released: July 21, 1947
Type: Movie
A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.
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The Yearling
Title: The Yearling
Character: Ma Forrester
Released: December 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
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Johnny Angel
Title: Johnny Angel
Character: Miss Drumm
Released: October 25, 1945
Type: Movie
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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Experiment Perilous
Title: Experiment Perilous
Character: Maggie, the Maid
Released: December 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Ludmilla Novotny
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Keeper of the Flame
Title: Keeper of the Flame
Character: Old Mrs. Forrest
Released: April 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Mme. Sarah Orden
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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Assignment in Brittany
Title: Assignment in Brittany
Character: Mme. Henriette Corlay
Released: March 11, 1943
Type: Movie
A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
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Random Harvest
Title: Random Harvest
Character: Mrs. Deventer
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-War life.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Madame Pelletier
Released: July 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: Mother York
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Mrs. Schomberg
Released: December 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Midnight
Title: Midnight
Character: Mrs. Weldon
Released: March 7, 1934
Type: Movie
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Garboni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair.
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The Thirteenth Chair
Title: The Thirteenth Chair
Character: Madame Rosalie La Grange
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.