Personal Info
Known Credits
166
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1879-10-13 (146 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Palmyra, Missouri, USA
Also Known For
Patti Woodard
Jane Darwell
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Dar ...
Known For
Acting
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 --
Girls in Prison
| Matron Jamieson
1956 --
Prima Donna
| Lena
1956 --
There's Always Tomorrow
| Mme Rogers
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 --
Journey Into Light
| Mack
1951 --
Excuse My Dust
| Mrs. Belden
1951 --
The Lemon Drop Kid
| 'Nellie Thursday' Regan
1950 --
Father's Wild Game
| Minerva Bobbin
1950 --
The Second Face
| Mrs. Lockridge
1950 --
Three Husbands
| Mrs. Wurdeman
1950 --
Redwood Forest Trail
| Hattie Hickory
1950 --
Surrender
| Molly Hale
1950 --
Caged
| Isolation Matron
1950 --
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
| Mrs. Murphy
1950 --
Wagon Master
| Sister Ledyard
1949 --
Red Canyon
| Aunt Jane
1948 --
3 Godfathers
| Miss Florie
1948 --
Train to Alcatraz
| Aunt Ella
1947 --
The Red Stallion
| Aggie Curtis
1947 --
Keeper of the Bees
| Mrs. Ferris
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 --
She's a Sweetheart
| Mom
1944 --
Music in Manhattan
| Mrs. Pearson
1944 --
The Impatient Years
| Minister's wife
1944 --
Reckless Age
| Mrs. Connors
1944 --
Tender Comrade
| Mrs. Henderson
1943 --
Government Girl
| Miss Trask (uncredited)
1943 --
Family Feud
| The Mother
1943 --
Stage Door Canteen
| Jane Darwell
1943 --
Gildersleeve's Bad Day
| Aunt Emma Forrester
1943 --
The Ox-Bow Incident
| Ma Grier
1942 --
The Great Gildersleeve
| Aunt Emma Forrester
1942 --
Highways by Night
| Grandma Fogarty
1942 --
The Battle of Midway
| Narrator (voice)
1942 --
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
| Mariah Clemm
1942 --
Men of Texas
| Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie
1942 --
It Happened in Flatbush
| Mrs. Maguire
1942 --
On the Sunny Side
| Annie
1942 --
Young America
| Grandmother Nora Campbell
1942 --
All Through the Night
| Mrs. Donahue
1941 --
Small Town Deb
| Katie
1941 --
All That Money Can Buy
| Ma Stone
1941 --
Private Nurse
| Miss Adams
1941 --
Thieves Fall Out
| Grandma Allen
1940 --
Chad Hanna
| Mrs. Bettina Huguenine
1940 --
Youth Will Be Served
| Supervisor Stormer
1940 --
Brigham Young
| Eliza Kent
1940 --
Untamed
| Mrs. Maggie Moriarty
1940 --
The Grapes of Wrath
| Ma Joad
1939 --
Miracle on Main Street
| Mrs. Herman
1939 --
Gone with the Wind
| Mrs. Merriwether
1939 --
20,000 Men a Year
| Mrs. Allen
1939 --
The Rains Came
| Aunt Phoebe Smiley
1939 --
Grand Jury Secrets
| Mrs. Keefe
1939 --
Unexpected Father
| Mrs. Callahan
1939 --
The Zero Hour
| Sophie
1939 --
Inside Story
| Aunt Mary Perkins
1939 --
Jesse James
| Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
1938 --
Up the River
| Mrs. Graham
1938 --
Five of a Kind
| Nurse Waldron
1938 --
Time Out for Murder
| Polly, Helen's supervisor
1938 --
Little Miss Broadway
| Miss Hutchins
1938 --
Three Blind Mice
| Mrs. Kilian
1938 --
Battle of Broadway
| Mrs. Rogers
1938 --
The Jury's Secret
| Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother
1938 --
Change of Heart
| Mrs. Thompson
1937 --
Dangerously Yours
| Aunt Cynthia Barton
1937 --
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
| Mrs. Krueger
1937 --
The Singing Marine
| Ma Marine
1937 --
Slave Ship
| Mrs. Marlowe
1937 --
Fifty Roads to Town
| Mrs. Henry
1937 --
The Great Hospital Mystery
| Nurse Sarah Keats
1937 --
Lest We Forget
| Archive Footage
1937 --
Nancy Steele Is Missing!
| Mrs. Mary Flaherty
1937 --
Love Is News
| Mrs. Flaherty
1936 --
Laughing at Trouble
| Glory Bradford
1936 --
Craig's Wife
| Mrs. Harold
1936 --
Star for a Night
| Mrs. Martha Lind
1936 --
Poor Little Rich Girl
| Woodward
1936 --
White Fang
| Maud Mahoney
1936 --
Private Number
| Mrs. Frisby
1936 --
Little Miss Nobody
| Eva Bradley
1936 --
Captain January
| Mrs. Eliza Croft
1936 --
The First Baby
| Mrs. Ellis
1936 --
The Country Doctor
| Mrs. Graham
1936 --
Paddy O'Day
| Dora
1935 --
We're Only Human
| Mrs. Walsh
1935 --
Metropolitan
| Grandma
1935 --
Navy Wife
| Mrs. Louise Keats
1935 --
Curly Top
| Mrs. Denham
1935 --
Wig-Wag
| Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother
1935 --
Life Begins at Forty
| Ida Harris
1935 --
McFadden´s Flats
| Nora McFadden
1935 --
One More Spring
| Mary Sweeney
1934 --
Bright Eyes
| Mrs. Higgins
1934 --
Gentlemen Are Born
| Landlady
1934 --
The White Parade
| Sailor
1934 --
Happiness Ahead
| Mrs. Davis - The Landlady
1934 --
Tomorrow's Youth
| Mary O'Brien
1934 --
Desirable
| Frederick's Mother
1934 --
Embarrassing Moments
| Mrs. Stuckelberger
1934 --
Million Dollar Ransom
| Ma McGarry (Uncredited)
1934 --
Blind Date
| Ma Taylor
1934 --
One Night of Love
| Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother
1934 --
Most Precious Thing in Life
| Mrs. O'Day
1934 --
Let's Talk It Over
| Mrs. O'Keefe
1934 --
Change of Heart
| Mrs. Mc Gowan
1934 --
The Scarlet Empress
| Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)
1934 --
Finishing School
| Maude (uncredited)
1934 --
Wonder Bar
| Baroness (uncredited)
1934 --
Once to Every Woman
| Mrs. Wood
1934 --
Journal of a Crime
| Dinner Guest (uncredited)
1934 --
David Harum
| Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)
1934 --
Heat Lightning
| Gladys - the Wife
1934 --
Fashions of 1934
| Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)
1934 --
Cross Country Cruise
| Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)
1933 --
Design for Living
| Curtis' Housekeeper
1933 --
He Couldn't Take It
| Mrs. Case
1933 --
King for a Night
| Mrs. Williams
1933 --
Roman Scandals
| Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)
1933 --
Only Yesterday
| Mrs. Lane
1933 --
Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men
| Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)
1933 --
Ann Vickers
| Mrs. Gage (uncredited)
1933 --
One Sunday Afternoon
| Mrs. Lind
1933 --
Before Dawn
| Mrs. Marble
1933 --
Bed of Roses
| Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)
1933 --
Emergency Call
| Nurse Brown (uncredited)
1933 --
Jennie Gerhardt
| Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)
1933 --
The Girl in 419
| Nurse Esmond
1933 --
Bondage
| Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton
1933 --
Murders in the Zoo
| Banquet Guest (uncredited)
1933 --
Child of Manhattan
| Mrs. McGonagle
1933 --
The Past of Mary Holmes
|
1933 --
Air Hostess
| Ma Kearny
1932 --
Women Won't Tell
| Mrs. Walter Robinson
1932 --
Hot Saturday
| Mrs. Brock
1932 --
Washington Merry-Go-Round
| Alice's Aunt
1932 --
Back Street
| Mrs. Adolph Schmidt
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 --
After Five
| Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy
1915 --
The Goose Girl
| Irma
1915 --
Hypocrites
| Madam (uncredited)
1914 --
The Rose of the Rancho
| Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother
1914 --
Ready Money
| Mrs. Tyler
1914 --
The Only Son
| Mrs. Brainerd