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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
December 18, 1888
Place of Birth:
Chiswick, England, UK
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Gladys Cooper
Biography
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, DBE (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television.
Beginning on the stage as a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she was starring in dramatic roles and silent films by World War I. She also became a manager of the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. Beginning in the early 1920s, Cooper was winning praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s, she was starring steadily both in the West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles; she was nominated for three Academy Awards, the last one as Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady (1964). Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, she mixed her stage and film careers, continuing to star on stage until her last year.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | The Switch | Grand Duchess Ozerov |
| 1969 | A Nice Girl Like Me | Aunt Mary |
| 1967 | The Happiest Millionaire | Aunt Mary Drexel |
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Mrs. Higgins |
| 1963 | The List of Adrian Messenger | Mrs. Karoudjian |
| 1963 | Pygmalion | Mrs. Higgins |
| 1962 | Always on Sunday | |
| 1958 | Separate Tables | Mrs. Railton-Bell |
| 1955 | The Man Who Loved Redheads | Lady Binfield |
| 1952 | At Sword's Point | Queen Anne |
| 1951 | Thunder on the Hill | Mother Superior |
| 1949 | The Secret Garden | Mrs. Medlock |
| 1949 | Madame Bovary | Madame Dupuis |
| 1948 | The Pirate | Aunt Inez |
| 1948 | Homecoming | Mrs. Kirby |
| 1947 | The Bishop's Wife | Mrs. Hamilton |
| 1947 | Green Dolphin Street | Sophie Patourel |
| 1946 | Beware of Pity | Mrs. Klara Condor |
| 1946 | The Green Years | Grandma Leckie |
| 1946 | The Cockeyed Miracle | Amy Griggs |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision | Clarissa Scott |
| 1945 | Love Letters | Beatrice Remington |
| 1944 | Mrs. Parkington | Alice, Dutchess de Brancourt |
| 1944 | The White Cliffs of Dover | Jean Ashwood |
| 1943 | The Song of Bernadette | Sister Marie Therese Vauzous |
| 1943 | Mr. Lucky | Captain Veronica Steadman |
| 1943 | Princess O'Rourke | Miss Haskell |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Mrs. Barringer |
| 1942 | Now, Voyager | Mrs. Henry Vale |
| 1942 | This Above All | Iris Cathaway |
| 1942 | Eagle Squadron | Aunt Emmeline |
| 1941 | The Black Cat | Myrna Hartley |
| 1941 | That Hamilton Woman | Lady Francis Nelson |
| 1941 | The Gay Falcon | Maxine Wood |
| 1940 | Rebecca | Beatrice Lacy |
| 1940 | Kitty Foyle | Mrs. Strafford |
| 1934 | The Iron Duke | Madame - Duchess d'Angoulème |
| 1923 | Bonnie Prince Charlie | Flora MacDonald |
| 1922 | The Bohemian Girl | Arlene Arnheim |
| 1917 | Masks and Faces | Mabel Vane |
| 1917 | The Sorrows Of Satan | Lady Sybil Elton |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Persuaders! | Grand Duchess Ozerov |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |
| 1967 | Callan | |
| 1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | |
| 1966 | Run, Buddy, Run | |
| 1964 | The Rogues | Margaret St. Clair |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Harriet Richards |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Mrs. Palmer |
| 1962 | Going My Way | |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Mrs. Raydon |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Laura |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Millie McKenzie |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Elva Keene |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Wanda Dunn |
| 1959 | Adventures in Paradise | Mrs. Maude Harper |
| 1958 | Naked City | Mrs. Ernest Johns, Sr. |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Marguerite Gillespie |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Mrs. Higgins |