Personal Info
Known Credits
49
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1883-11-08 (142 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Malden, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known For
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 ...
Known For
Acting
1999 --
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
| Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
1941 --
Lydia
| Sarah MacMillan
1940 --
Pride and Prejudice
| Lady Catherine de Bourgh
1939 --
Drums Along the Mohawk
| Mrs. Mc Klennar
1939 --
Nurse Edith Cavell
| Countess de Mavon
1939 --
Second Fiddle
| Aunt Phoebe
1939 --
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
| Maggie Sutton
1938 --
Little Miss Broadway
| Sarah Wendling
1938 --
Paradise for Three
| Mrs. Kunkel
1937 --
Rosalie
| Queen of Romanza
1937 --
My Dear Miss Aldrich
| Mrs. Atherton
1937 --
Parnell
| Aunt Ben Wood
1936 --
Romeo and Juliet
| Juliet's Nurse
1935 --
A Tale of Two Cities
| Miss Pross
1935 --
No More Ladies
| Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
1935 --
Murder on a Honeymoon
| Hildegarde Withers
1935 --
David Copperfield
| Aunt Betsey Trotwood
1934 --
We're Rich Again
| Maude Stanley
1934 --
Murder on the Blackboard
| Hildegarde Withers
1934 --
The Last Gentleman
| Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
1934 --
The Poor Rich
| Harriet Spottiswood
1933 --
Alice in Wonderland
| Red Queen
1933 --
Little Women
| Aunt March
1933 --
Only Yesterday
| Leona
1933 --
Meet the Baron
| Dean Primrose
1933 --
Ann Vickers
| Malvina Wormser
1933 --
It's Great to Be Alive
| Dr. Prodwell
1933 --
The Great Jasper
| Madame Talma
1932 --
Penguin Pool Murder
| Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
1932 --
The Conquerors
| Matilda Blake
1932 --
Hold 'Em Jail
| Violet Jones
1932 --
Ladies of the Jury
| Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
1931 --
Fanny Foley Herself
| Fanny Foley
1931 --
Newly Rich
| Bessie Tate
1931 --
Cracked Nuts
| Aunt Minnie Van Varden
1931 --
Laugh and Get Rich
| Sarah Cranston Austin
1931 --
Cimarron
| Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
1930 --
Half Shot at Sunrise
| Mrs. Marshall
1929 --
The Saturday Night Kid
| Miss Streeter
1926 --
Let's Get Married
| J.W. Smith
1926 --
The American Venus
| Mrs. Niles
1925 --
Lovers in Quarantine
| Amelia Pincent
1925 --
The Lucky Devil
| Mrs. McDee
1925 --
The Lady Who Lied
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1924 --
Manhattan
| Mrs. Trapes
1924 --
Icebound
| Hannah
1924 --
Restless Wives
| Benson's Secretary
1923 --
Three O'Clock in the Morning
| Hetty
1923 --
Wife in Name Only
| Mrs. Dornham