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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 13, 1879
Place of Birth:
Palmyra, Missouri, USA
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Jane Darwell
Biography
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Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2 | (archive footage) |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Bird Woman |
| 1959 | Hound-Dog Man | Grandma Wilson |
| 1958 | The Last Hurrah | Delia |
| 1957 | The Greer Case | Annie Jackson |
| 1956 | There's Always Tomorrow | Mme Rogers |
| 1956 | Girls in Prison | Matron Jamieson |
| 1956 | Prima Donna | Lena |
| 1955 | A Life at Stake | Landlady |
| 1955 | Hit the Deck | Jenny |
| 1953 | The Bigamist | Mrs. Connelley |
| 1953 | Affair with a Stranger | Ma Stanton |
| 1953 | The Sun Shines Bright | Aurora Ratchitt |
| 1953 | It Happens Every Thursday | Mrs. Spatch |
| 1952 | We're Not Married! | Mrs. Bush |
| 1951 | The Lemon Drop Kid | 'Nellie Thursday' Regan |
| 1951 | Journey Into Light | Mack |
| 1951 | Excuse My Dust | Mrs. Belden |
| 1950 | Caged | Isolation Matron |
| 1950 | Wagon Master | Sister Ledyard |
| 1950 | The Second Face | Mrs. Lockridge |
| 1950 | The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady | Mrs. Murphy |
| 1950 | Redwood Forest Trail | Hattie Hickory |
| 1950 | Surrender | Molly Hale |
| 1950 | Father's Wild Game | Minerva Bobbin |
| 1950 | Three Husbands | Mrs. Wurdeman |
| 1949 | Red Canyon | Aunt Jane |
| 1948 | 3 Godfathers | Miss Florie |
| 1948 | Train to Alcatraz | Aunt Ella |
| 1947 | Keeper of the Bees | Mrs. Ferris |
| 1947 | The Red Stallion | Aggie Curtis |
| 1946 | My Darling Clementine | Kate Nelson |
| 1946 | Three Wise Fools | Sister Mary Brigid |
| 1946 | The Dark Horse | Aunt Hattie |
| 1945 | Captain Tugboat Annie | Tugboat Annie |
| 1945 | I Live in Grosvenor Square | Mrs. Patterson |
| 1944 | Tender Comrade | Mrs. Henderson |
| 1944 | The Impatient Years | Minister's wife |
| 1944 | Music in Manhattan | Mrs. Pearson |
| 1944 | She's a Sweetheart | Mom |
| 1944 | Reckless Age | Mrs. Connors |
| 1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident | Ma Grier |
| 1943 | Family Feud | The Mother |
| 1943 | Government Girl | Miss Trask (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Gildersleeve's Bad Day | Aunt Emma Forrester |
| 1943 | Stage Door Canteen | Jane Darwell |
| 1942 | All Through the Night | Mrs. Donahue |
| 1942 | The Battle of Midway | Narrator (voice) |
| 1942 | Men of Texas | Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie |
| 1942 | Highways by Night | Grandma Fogarty |
| 1942 | The Great Gildersleeve | Aunt Emma Forrester |
| 1942 | The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Mariah Clemm |
| 1942 | It Happened in Flatbush | Mrs. Maguire |
| 1942 | On the Sunny Side | Annie |
| 1942 | Young America | Grandmother Nora Campbell |
| 1941 | All That Money Can Buy | Ma Stone |
| 1941 | Thieves Fall Out | Grandma Allen |
| 1941 | Private Nurse | Miss Adams |
| 1941 | Small Town Deb | Katie |
| 1940 | The Grapes of Wrath | Ma Joad |
| 1940 | Youth Will Be Served | Supervisor Stormer |
| 1940 | Brigham Young | Eliza Kent |
| 1940 | Chad Hanna | Mrs. Bettina Huguenine |
| 1940 | Untamed | Mrs. Maggie Moriarty |
| 1939 | Gone with the Wind | Mrs. Merriwether |
| 1939 | Jesse James | Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother |
| 1939 | Inside Story | Aunt Mary Perkins |
| 1939 | The Zero Hour | Sophie |
| 1939 | The Rains Came | Aunt Phoebe Smiley |
| 1939 | Miracle on Main Street | Mrs. Herman |
| 1939 | Grand Jury Secrets | Mrs. Keefe |
| 1939 | 20,000 Men a Year | Mrs. Allen |
| 1939 | Unexpected Father | Mrs. Callahan |
| 1938 | Change of Heart | Mrs. Thompson |
| 1938 | Time Out for Murder | Polly, Helen's supervisor |
| 1938 | Five of a Kind | Nurse Waldron |
| 1938 | Battle of Broadway | Mrs. Rogers |
| 1938 | Three Blind Mice | Mrs. Kilian |
| 1938 | Little Miss Broadway | Miss Hutchins |
| 1938 | Up the River | Mrs. Graham |
| 1938 | The Jury's Secret | Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother |
| 1937 | Slave Ship | Mrs. Marlowe |
| 1937 | The Singing Marine | Ma Marine |
| 1937 | Nancy Steele Is Missing! | Mrs. Mary Flaherty |
| 1937 | Wife, Doctor and Nurse | Mrs. Krueger |
| 1937 | The Great Hospital Mystery | Nurse Sarah Keats |
| 1937 | Dangerously Yours | Aunt Cynthia Barton |
| 1937 | Love Is News | Mrs. Flaherty |
| 1937 | Fifty Roads to Town | Mrs. Henry |
| 1937 | Lest We Forget | Archive Footage |
| 1936 | Captain January | Mrs. Eliza Croft |
| 1936 | Craig's Wife | Mrs. Harold |
| 1936 | Paddy O'Day | Dora |
| 1936 | Little Miss Nobody | Eva Bradley |
| 1936 | Private Number | Mrs. Frisby |
| 1936 | The Country Doctor | Mrs. Graham |
| 1936 | Poor Little Rich Girl | Woodward |
| 1936 | White Fang | Maud Mahoney |
| 1936 | Laughing at Trouble | Glory Bradford |
| 1936 | Star for a Night | Mrs. Martha Lind |
| 1936 | The First Baby | Mrs. Ellis |
| 1935 | Curly Top | Mrs. Denham |
| 1935 | One More Spring | Mary Sweeney |
| 1935 | Life Begins at Forty | Ida Harris |
| 1935 | We're Only Human | Mrs. Walsh |
| 1935 | Metropolitan | Grandma |
| 1935 | McFadden´s Flats | Nora McFadden |
| 1935 | Navy Wife | Mrs. Louise Keats |
| 1935 | Wig-Wag | Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother |
| 1935 | The Gilded Lily | Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited) |
| 1934 | One Night of Love | Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother |
| 1934 | Bright Eyes | Mrs. Higgins |
| 1934 | Fashions of 1934 | Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The White Parade | Sailor |
| 1934 | Wonder Bar | Baroness (uncredited) |
| 1934 | David Harum | Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Blind Date | Ma Taylor |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Empress | Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Cross Country Cruise | Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited) |
| 1934 | Most Precious Thing in Life | Mrs. O'Day |
| 1934 | Happiness Ahead | Mrs. Davis - The Landlady |
| 1934 | Change of Heart | Mrs. Mc Gowan |
| 1934 | Heat Lightning | Gladys - the Wife |
| 1934 | Finishing School | Maude (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Desirable | Frederick's Mother |
| 1934 | Journal of a Crime | Dinner Guest (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Gentlemen Are Born | Landlady |
| 1934 | Tomorrow's Youth | Mary O'Brien |
| 1934 | Once to Every Woman | Mrs. Wood (uncredited) |
| 1934 | Let's Talk It Over | Mrs. O'Keefe |
| 1934 | Million Dollar Ransom | Ma McGarry (Uncredited) |
| 1934 | Embarrassing Moments | Mrs. Stuckelberger |
| 1933 | Ann Vickers | Mrs. Gage (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Air Hostess | Ma Kearny |
| 1933 | Bed of Roses | Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Design for Living | Curtis' Housekeeper |
| 1933 | Child of Manhattan | Mrs. McGonagle |
| 1933 | Before Dawn | Mrs. Marble |
| 1933 | One Sunday Afternoon | Mrs. Lind |
| 1933 | Bondage | Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | Mrs. Lane |
| 1933 | Jennie Gerhardt | Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited) |
| 1933 | King for a Night | Mrs. Williams |
| 1933 | Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men | Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited) |
| 1933 | He Couldn't Take It | Mrs. Case |
| 1933 | Roman Scandals | Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Emergency Call | Nurse Brown (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Girl in 419 | Nurse Esmond |
| 1933 | Murders in the Zoo | Banquet Guest (uncredited) |
| 1933 | The Past of Mary Holmes | |
| 1932 | Women Won't Tell | Mrs. Walter Robinson |
| 1932 | Washington Merry-Go-Round | Alice's Aunt |
| 1932 | Back Street | Mrs. Adolph Schmidt |
| 1932 | Hot Saturday | Mrs. Brock |
| 1932 | Young America | School Teacher (Uncredited) |
| 1931 | Ladies of the Big House | Mrs. Turner |
| 1931 | Huckleberry Finn | Widow Douglas |
| 1930 | Tom Sawyer | Widow Douglas |
| 1923 | Little Church Around the Corner | Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited) |
| 1920 | The Restless Sex | Housekeeper (uncredited) |
| 1915 | The Rug Maker's Daughter | Mrs. Van Buren |
| 1915 | The Goose Girl | Irma |
| 1915 | Hypocrites | Madam (uncredited) |
| 1915 | After Five | Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy |
| 1914 | The Rose of the Rancho | Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother |
| 1914 | Ready Money | Mrs. Tyler |
| 1914 | The Only Son | Mrs. Brainerd |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Mrs. Leah Mulligan |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Mamie Carnation |
| 1957 | Maverick | Mrs. Knowles |
| 1955 | Matinee Theater | |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Lena |
| 1954 | Lassie | |
| 1954 | Climax! | B. Cool |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | |
| 1954 | Studio 57 | |
| 1954 | Climax! | Mrs. Koestler |
| 1953 | Letter to Loretta | Irene Townsend |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America | Minna |
| 1948 | Studio One | Anna - Maid |