Ethel Griffies

AKA: Ethel Woods
0.1625

1878-04-25

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {83}

Mrs. Bundy

1963-03-28 7.5

The Birds

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks. ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller

Catherine Vandewater

1942-07-03 0

The Postman Didn't Ring

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting the lives of the recipients. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Second Aunt

1932-08-18 6.541

Love Me Tonight

A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mrs. Ward - Orphanage Representative (uncredited)

1933-10-13 6.406

Bombshell

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Miss Simpson (uncredited)

1933-12-18 6.1

Alice in Wonderland

In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters. ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy, Comedy

Grandma Florence

1963-08-15 6.8

Billy Liar

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

Mrs. Whack

1935-05-13 6

Werewolf of London

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster. ...
Genre :Horror, Fantasy

Mme. Saturnia, aka Lizzie

1942-02-02 6.906

Castle in the Desert

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and inhabited by an eccentric, reclusiv ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Mrs. Kane

1940-08-16 6.475

Stranger on the Third Floor

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

Miss Patience Nodbury

1941-03-28 6.3

Dead Men Tell

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a rec ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Comedy

Lady Stover

1945-04-28 5.65

The Horn Blows at Midnight

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the w ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy, Music

Agatha Alden

1933-09-08 5.222

Torch Singer

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she searches for the child she gave up. ...
Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

Aunt Elizabeth Branwell

1946-04-05 6

Devotion

In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented ...
Genre :Drama

Miss Twinkleton

1935-02-04 5.6

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Lady McDougal

1933-03-03 0

A Lady's Profession

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Hobley

1931-09-01 6.875

Waterloo Bridge

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, War

Matron (uncredited)

1942-01-29 7.2

Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake

Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, Drama

Miss Bates - the Governess (uncredited)

1939-10-12 5.3

Over the Moon

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has ...
Genre :Comedy

Nurse Lovett

1932-03-01 0

The Impatient Maiden

A maid's dream comes true but are not quite what she expected. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Lady Vale

1943-08-24 6.6

Holy Matrimony

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Peters

1932-03-21 5

Are You Listening?

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and sponsors smiling. But one sponsor, a producer of plumbing ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Zana

1933-01-21 0

Tonight Is Ours

A princess is torn between her royal obligations and her love for a handsome Frenchman. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Matron East

1940-02-05 5.545

Vigil in the Night

A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake. ...
Genre :Drama

Grace Poole

1934-08-15 4.9

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Chisholm

1933-11-10 5.7

White Woman

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantat ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Hawkins (uncredited)

1935-02-01 4.5

Enchanted April

Mrs. Lotty Wilkins is an unhappily wife whom's life husband and romance have departed. In order to possibly salvage some of the missing elements in her life she rents an old Italian mansion and sharin ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Aunt Marie

1934-11-01 6.6

We Live Again

Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to ...
Genre :Drama

Aunt Martha

1947-05-04 0

The Homestretch

A young couple's marriage is threatened by the husband's love of horses and the racetrack circuit. ...
Genre :Drama

Annie

1938-10-01 5.9

Crackerjack

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Cross Woman at Magazine Stand (uncredited)

1932-01-14 5.75

Union Depot

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after s ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mrs. Fenway

1945-05-23 6.2

Thrill of a Romance

A soldier falls in love with a newly-married woman after her husband abandons her for a business meeting on their honeymoon. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Miss Bleeker

1931-11-07 2.7

Once a Lady

A young Russian woman marries a wealthy Englishman, and has a daughter with him. After she has an affair with one of his friends, she is forced to leave Britain and moves to Paris. Many years later, h ...
Genre :Drama

Adela Heythorp

1930-08-12 4

Old English

An old man unethically provides an income for his two grandchildren. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Graham

1942-10-01 0

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mrs. Everard (uncredited)

1931-09-02 5.2

The Road to Singapore

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Lady Caverly

1932-05-27 5.8

Westward Passage

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Emily

1933-06-01 0

Horse Play

Ranchowner Slim Perkins is in love with his neighbor's niece, Angelica Wayne, but her aunt and uncle throw him off their property because he is a poor bumbler. One day a stranger buys Slim's ranch for ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Mrs. Field

1934-08-15 5.318

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back

Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed. Enlisting the help of his old friend Algy and the beautif ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Mystery

Mrs. Martha Bartholomew

1935-09-13 5.2

The Return Of Peter Grimm

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Lady Fitzhugh

1941-09-26 5.458

A Yank in the R.A.F.

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Lady Coldchester (uncredited)

1934-11-23 6.405

The Painted Veil

The wife of a doctor in China falls in love with a diplomat. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Beacon

1931-12-24 1.8

Manhattan Parade

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Hanky

1941-05-30 4.976

Billy the Kid

Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men wh ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Mabel Wilcox

1939-12-01 5

The Mysterious Mr. Davis

A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Raymond

1939-11-25 6.1

We Are Not Alone

A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Nurse

1943-07-29 6.6

First Comes Courage

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happ ...
Genre :Drama, War

Ship Passenger

1934-03-15 2.75

Stolen Sweets

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a ship cruise and falls in love, much to the annoyance ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Aunt Agatha

1941-10-10 5.9

Great Guns

Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted. ...
Genre :Comedy

Hannah O'Dwyer

1937-02-01 7

Kathleen Mavourneen

A hugely popular, much-adapted comedy in which a Liverpool lass visits family in rural Ireland and finds she has several rivals for her affections ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Mrs. O'Connor (uncredited)

1944-03-31 6.7

It Happened Tomorrow

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Gallagher

1942-09-04 6

Between Us Girls

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Miss Judd

1933-04-28 6.2

Looking Forward

Depression Era story set in London about a wealthy shop owner who goes bankrupt and is forced to fire his faithful staff. ...
Genre :Drama

Winifred Trent

1935-03-01 6

Vanessa: Her Love Story

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt. ...
Genre :Drama

Mrs. Clark - Landlady (uncredited)

1940-05-17 7.5

Waterloo Bridge

On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Clarissa Van Steed

1945-11-21 5.7

Saratoga Trunk

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Western

Princess Minetti

1940-04-23 6

Irene

Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy's ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

Wife of Man in Air Raid Shelter

1943-01-21 7.4

Forever and a Day

In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him ...
Genre :Drama, History

Mrs. Lamb

1945-05-25 6.4

Molly and Me

A vivacious actress needing work becomes a housekeeper for a crusty retired politician, and gives his life the shaking-up that it needs. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Nicholas

1941-10-28 7.3

How Green Was My Valley

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Genre :Drama

Miss Ace

1933-09-22 6.5

Doctor Bull

In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a he ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mrs. Murdock

1942-12-24 5.875

Time to Kill

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin. ...
Genre :Mystery

Undetermined Role

1941-12-25 6.6

Remember the Day

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost. ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Woman on Train Opening Window (uncredited)

1944-05-11 6.7

The White Cliffs of Dover

American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to ...
Genre :Drama, War, Romance

Mrs. Spencer

1965-03-24 5.2

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Bus Riley returns to his small town after time in the army. On his return, his ex-girlfriend wants to resume their relationship. The only problem is she has married in the mean time. Searching for ful ...
Genre :Drama

Mme. Kartasoff

1935-08-30 6.5

Anna Karenina

In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Romance

The Duchess

1933-07-28 0

Midnight Club

With a sparkling script by Leslie Charteris, creator of "The Saint" - the latest crime wave has Scotland Yard baffled. Commissioner Hope (Sir Guy Standing) sends two of his officers (Billy Bevan and C ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Drunken Flower Vendor in Pub (uncredited)

1931-07-18 7

Chances

Two brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact ...
Genre :War, Drama, Romance

Grace Poole

1943-12-24 6.9

Jane Eyre

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs. Martha Dean

1944-05-01 5.5

Pardon My Rhythm

A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Mrs. Abigail Smith

1946-07-25 0

Sing While You Dance

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she fa ...
Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Mrs. Etta Hamilton

1936-05-11 6

Twice Branded

A young business man (James Mason) is being duped by business swindlers but his gaol bird father is determined to save him. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Mrs. Ainger's Mother

1934-01-26 5.9

Four Frightened People

Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert isl ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Mrs. McGuff

1944-12-18 6

Music for Millions

Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Music

Aunt Katherine

1947-03-20 1

Millie's Daughter

An errant mother tries to teach her daughter to avoid the same errors she made by choosing a different lifestyle. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mrs. Nelson

1945-08-17 6.2

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

George Sanders stars in this engrossing melodrama about a very domineering sister who holds a tight grip on her brother -- especially when he shows signs of falling in love. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Woman in Subway (uncredited)

1934-05-09 6.9

Sadie McKee

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Miss Wildhack

1939-04-06 0

I'm from Missouri

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. He is ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

1965-09-18 6.8

The Trials of O'Brien

The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife. The series ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mrs. White

1948-10-03 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

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 respe ...
Genre :Drama

1949-07-19 5.75

Lights Out

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime, Drama, Reality

Grandmother

1948-10-03 6.3

The Philco Television Playhouse

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 respe ...
Genre :Drama

Lulu

1962-09-20 7.9

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama