Edna May Oliver

Personal Info

Birthday

November 8, 1883

Day of Death

1942-11-09

(59 years old)

Place of Birth

Malden, Massachusetts, USA

Edna May Oliver

Biography

Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.

She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.

Known For

Pride and Prejudice

Let's Get Married

David Copperfield

Paradise for Three

Little Women

Alice in Wonderland

Drums Along the Mohawk

Cimarron

Filmography

1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1941
Lydia
as Sarah MacMillan
1940
Pride and Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
1939
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Countess de Mavon
Second Fiddle
as Aunt Phoebe
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Maggie Sutton
1938
Little Miss Broadway
as Sarah Wendling
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Kunkel
1937
Rosalie
as Queen of Romanza
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Atherton
Parnell
as Aunt Ben Wood
1936
Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet's Nurse
1935
A Tale of Two Cities
as Miss Pross
No More Ladies
as Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
Murder on a Honeymoon
as Hildegarde Withers
David Copperfield
as Aunt Betsey Trotwood
1934
We're Rich Again
as Maude Stanley
Murder on the Blackboard
as Hildegarde Withers
The Last Gentleman
as Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
The Poor Rich
as Harriet Spottiswood
1933
Alice in Wonderland
as Red Queen
Little Women
as Aunt March
Only Yesterday
as Leona
Meet the Baron
as Dean Primrose
Ann Vickers
as Malvina Wormser
It's Great to Be Alive
as Dr. Prodwell
The Great Jasper
as Madame Talma
1932
The Penguin Pool Murder
as Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
The Conquerors
as Matilda Blake
Hold 'Em Jail
as Violet Jones
Ladies of the Jury
as Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
1931
Fanny Foley Herself
as Fanny Foley
Newly Rich
as Bessie Tate
Cracked Nuts
as Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Laugh and Get Rich
as Sarah Cranston Austin
Cimarron
as Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
1930
Half Shot at Sunrise
as Mrs. Marshall
1929
The Saturday Night Kid
as Miss Streeter
1926
Let's Get Married
as J.W. Smith
The American Venus
as Mrs. Niles
1925
Lovers in Quarantine
as Amelia Pincent
The Lucky Devil
as Mrs. McDee
1924
Manhattan
as Mrs. Trapes
Icebound
as Hannah
Restless Wives
as Benson's Secretary
1923
Three O'Clock in the Morning
as Hetty
Wife in Name Only
as Mrs. Dornham