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Mary Gordon

Born 1882-05-16

Died 1963-08-23

📍 Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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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.

Filmography 219

West of Wyoming

The File on Thelma Jordon

as Charwoman (uncredited)

as Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)

as Housemother (uncredited)

Clues to Adventure

as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Grandma Rogan

as Aunt Myrt Lacy

as Scottish Woman (uncredited)

The Strange Mrs. Crane

Big Town Scandal

as Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)

as Ma (barmaid)

as Mrs. Mamie Mahoney

The Judge Steps Out

as Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)

as Cleaning Lady

The Invisible Wall

as Mrs. Bledsoe

as Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

as Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)

as Mrs. Mahoney

Shadows Over Chinatown

as Mrs. Conover

In Fast Company

as Mrs. Cassidy

Dressed to Kill

The Hoodlum Saint

Sentimental Journey

as Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)

Strange Confession

as Mrs. O'Connor

as Mrs. Westrom

The Woman in Green

The Body Snatcher

as Mary McBride (uncredited)

Law of the Badlands

as Mrs. Fillmore

Hollywood Canteen

as Hostess (uncredited)

as Mrs. Mary Kelly

The Pearl of Death

as Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)

Secrets of Scotland Yard

as Libby, the Housekeeper

Follow the Leader

The Hour Before the Dawn

Million Dollar Kid

as Mrs. McGinnis

Whispering Footsteps

The Spider Woman

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Two Tickets to London

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Keep 'Em Slugging

as Mrs. Banning

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

as Mrs. Casey (uncredited)

The Mummy's Tomb

as Jane Banning

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Half Way to Shanghai

as Mrs. McIntyre

The Pride of the Yankees

as Maid (uncredited)

as Mrs. Douglas

Meet the Stewarts

as Mrs. Stewart

It Happened in Flatbush

as Mrs. Collins

as Broadway Carrie

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

as Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson

Blue, White and Perfect

as Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)

as Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)

Appointment for Love

It Started with Eve

as Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)

Unfinished Business

as Mom McCorkle

Flight from Destiny

The Invisible Woman

as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

No, No, Nanette

as Gertrude, the Cook

Nobody's Children

as Train Passenger

Public Deb No. 1

When the Daltons Rode

Queen of the Mob

as Tenement Landlady

as Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)

I Take This Oath

as Mrs. Eileen Hanagan

as Mrs. Sullivan

as Mrs. O'Riley

My Son, My Son!

as Mrs. Mulvaney

Women Without Names

The Invisible Man Returns

as Cookie (uncredited)

The Night of Nights

as 1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

as Mrs. O'Leary

Rulers of the Sea

as Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

as Woman (uncredited)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed

as Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

She Married a Cop

as Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)

The Jones Family in Hollywood

as Landlady (uncredited)

Racketeers of the Range

as Mary-Benson's Housekeeper

Code of the Streets

as Mrs. Flaherty

Broadway Serenade

as Annie (uncredited)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Wings of the Navy

as Irene's Housekeeper

as Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)

Angels with Dirty Faces

Campus Confessions

as Scottish Mother

as Maggie (uncredited)

as Mrs. MacDonald

as Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)

You're Only Young Once

as Mary's Mother (uncredited)

A Damsel in Distress

as Cook (uncredited)

You Can't Have Everything

as YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)

Meet the Boy Friend

One Man Justice

Her Husband Lies

The Great O'Malley

as Mrs. O'Malley

The Plough and the Stars

as Woman at Barricades

After the Thin Man

as Rose (uncredited)

The Plot Thickens

as Woman with Bag (uncredited)

as Mrs. Ogilvie

as Mrs. Cassidy

Mary of Scotland

The White Angel

as Nursing Applicant (uncredited)

Little Miss Nobody

Forgotten Faces

as Mrs. O'Leary

Share the Wealth

Laughing Irish Eyes

as Mrs. O'Keefe

The Lady Consents

Mutiny on the Bounty

as Peddler (uncredited)

Waterfront Lady

as Mrs. O'Flaherty

Bonnie Scotland

as Mrs. Bickerdike

The Irish in Us

as Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)

as Landlady (uncredited)

as Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Bride of Frankenstein

Vanessa: Her Love Story

as Mrs. Leathwaite

The Little Minister

Our Daily Bread

as Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)

Charlie Chan in London

as Prison Visitor (uncredited)

The Man from Hell

as Mrs. Frank McCarrol

as Cook (Uncredited)

The Defense Rests

Whom the Gods Destroy

as Newfoundlander

as Sonny's Mother

Baby Take a Bow

as Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)

The Loudspeaker

Change of Heart

as Woman in Street (uncredited)

Murder at the Vanities

as Assistant Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Manhattan Melodrama

as Boat Passenger (uncredited)

The Woman Condemned

as Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)

as Mrs. O'Leary

Design for Living

as Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)

The World Changes

as Lady at Party (uncredited)

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

as Cleaning Woman

The Invisible Man

as Screaming Woman (uncredited)

as Washer Woman (uncredited)

The Power and the Glory

as Nurse (uncredited)

as Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)

as Townswoman at Meeting

The Kiss Before the Mirror

as Scrubwoman (uncredited)

as Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)

Nature in the Wrong

as Pacifist Audience Member

She Done Him Wrong

as Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

Ladies They Talk About

as Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)

Call Her Savage

as Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)

as Washerwoman (uncredited)

as Landlady (uncredited)

Pack Up Your Troubles

as Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)

70,000 Witnesses

as Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Skyscraper Souls

as Landlady (uncredited)

The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Court Matron (uncredited)

Dancers in the Dark

The Impatient Maiden

as Irish Neighbor (uncredited)

A House Divided

as Townswoman (uncredited)

as Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)

Waterloo Bridge

as Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)

as Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)

The Black Camel

as Mrs. MacMasters

as Mrs. Delaney

as Stage Door Admirer with Violets

Anybody's Woman

as Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)

as Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)

When the Wind Blows

as Chubby's Mother (uncredited)

Song o' My Heart

as Choir Member (uncredited)

as Neighbor at Store

The Saturday Night Kid

as Reducing customer (uncredited)

Is Everybody Happy?

as Neighbor (uncredited)

as Nursemaid (uncredited)

The Ol' Gray Hoss

as First taxi passenger

Hangman's House

as The Woman at Hogan's Hideout

The Matinee Idol

as Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Clancy's Kosher Wedding

as Molly Clancy

Naughty Nanette

as Mrs. Hennessy

The People vs. Nancy Preston