Mary Gordon

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour, 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett. She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium. She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans. She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena, California after a long illness.

Known For: Acting

Born: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1882-05-16

Died: 1963-08-23

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1925	The Home Maker	Mrs. Hennessy	0
2	1926	Black Paradise	Mrs. Murphy	40
3	1927	Naughty Nanette	Mrs. Rooney	0
4	1928	The Matinee Idol	Woman in Audience (uncredited)	63
5	1928	Hangman's House	The Woman at Hogan's Hideout	63
6	1928	The Ol' Gray Hoss	First taxi passenger	60
7	1929	Madame X	Nursemaid (uncredited)	60
8	1929	Is Everybody Happy?	Neighbor (uncredited)	0
9	1929	The Saturday Night Kid	Reducing customer (uncredited)	44
10	1929	Dynamite	Neighbor at Store	62
11	1929	Hell's Heroes	Choir Member (uncredited)	69
12	1930	Song o' My Heart	Irish Woman	44
13	1930	His Honor the Mayor	His Wife	0
14	1930	The Ghosts	Chubby's Mama	0
15	1930	When the Wind Blows	Chubby's Mother (uncredited)	61
16	1930	Roaring Ranch	Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)	0
17	1930	Anybody's Woman	Maid	59
18	1930	Oh, for a Man!	Stage Door Admirer with Violets	57
19	1931	Subway Express	Mrs. Delaney	0
20	1931	The Black Camel	Mrs. MacMasters	60
21	1931	The Brat	Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)	56
22	1931	Waterloo Bridge	Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)	70
23	1931	24 Hours	Nurse	55
24	1931	Possessed	Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)	71
25	1931	A House Divided	Townswoman (uncredited)	62
26	1932	Texas Cyclone	Kate	43
27	1932	The Impatient Maiden	Irish Neighbor (uncredited)	0
28	1932	The Expert	Neighbor	63
29	1932	Dancers in the Dark	Scrubwoman	48
30	1932	Radio Patrol	Landlady (uncredited)	0
31	1932	Beauty Parlor	Landlady	50
32	1932	Skyscraper Souls	Charwoman	56
33	1932	70,000 Witnesses	Scrubwoman (uncredited)	48
34	1932	Pack Up Your Troubles	Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)	67
35	1932	Blonde Venus	Landlady (uncredited)	68
36	1932	Wild Girl	Washerwoman (uncredited)	60
37	1932	Call Her Savage	Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)	58
38	1933	Ladies They Talk About	Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)	61
39	1933	She Done Him Wrong	Cleaning Lady (uncredited)	58
40	1933	Men Must Fight	Pacifist Audience Member	57
41	1933	Nature in the Wrong	Mrs. Clancy	0
42	1933	The Whirlwind	Mrs. Curtis	0
43	1933	Sweepings	Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)	58
44	1933	The Kiss Before the Mirror	Scrubwoman (uncredited)	55
45	1933	Pilgrimage		67
46	1933	Doctor Bull	Townswoman at Meeting	65
47	1933	My Woman	Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)	34
48	1933	The Power and the Glory	Nurse (uncredited)	59
49	1933	Meet the Baron	Washer Woman (uncredited)	43
50	1933	Broadway Thru a Keyhole	Cleaning Woman	57
51	1933	The Invisible Man	Screaming Woman (uncredited)	75
52	1933	Design for Living	Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)	72
53	1934	Beloved	Mrs. O'Leary	0
54	1934	The Woman Condemned	Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)	45
55	1934	Manhattan Melodrama	Boat Passenger (uncredited)	70
56	1934	Change of Heart	Woman in Street	63
57	1934	Murder at the Vanities		54
58	1934	The Loudspeaker	Landlady	0
59	1934	Baby Take a Bow	Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)	55
60	1934	Cross Streets	Sonny's Mother	58
61	1934	Whom the Gods Destroy	Newfoundlander	55
62	1934	The Defense Rests	Scrub Woman	70
63	1934	One More River	Cook (Uncredited)	53
64	1934	The Man from Hell	Mrs. Frank McCarrol	45
65	1934	Charlie Chan in London	Prison Visitor (uncredited)	69
66	1934	Our Daily Bread	Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)	68
67	1934	The Little Minister	Nanny	59
68	1935	Vanessa: Her Love Story	Mrs. Leathwaite	60
69	1935	Bride of Frankenstein	Hans' Wife	75
70	1935	Vagabond Lady	Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)	72
71	1935	$10 Raise	Landlady (uncredited)	80
72	1935	Ginger	Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)	47
73	1935	The Irish in Us	Ma O'Hara	77
74	1935	Bonnie Scotland	Mrs. Bickerdike	66
75	1935	Waterfront Lady	Mrs. O'Flaherty	55
76	1935	Mutiny on the Bounty	Peddler (uncredited)	74
77	1936	The Lady Consents	Apple Lady	58
78	1936	Laughing Irish Eyes	Mrs. O'Keefe	0
79	1936	Share the Wealth	Ma MacClyde	30
80	1936	Forgotten Faces	Mrs. O'Leary	0
81	1936	Little Miss Nobody	Mrs. Biddle	60
82	1936	The White Angel	Nursing Applicant (uncredited)	80
83	1936	Mary of Scotland	Nurse	63
84	1936	Stage Struck	Mrs. Cassidy	40
85	1936	Great Guy	Mrs. Ogilvie	62
86	1936	The Plot Thickens	Woman with Bag	62
87	1936	After the Thin Man	Rose (uncredited)	73
88	1936	The Plough and the Stars	Woman at Barricades	56
89	1937	The Great O'Malley	Mrs. O'Malley	67
90	1937	Her Husband Lies	Mrs. Jenks	60
91	1937	Meet the Boy Friend	Mrs. Grimes	60
92	1937	You Can't Have Everything	YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)	57
93	1937	Double Wedding	Mrs. Keough	65
94	1937	A Damsel in Distress	Cook (uncredited)	64
95	1937	You're Only Young Once	Mary's Mother (uncredited)	55
96	1937	Lady Behave!	Cook	52
97	1937	Friend Indeed	Housekeeper	0
98	1938	Mannequin	Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)	60
99	1938	Kidnapped	Mrs. MacDonald	60
100	1938	Blond Cheat	Maggie (uncredited)	60
101	1938	City Streets	Mrs. Devlin	0
102	1938	Gateway	Scottish Mother	65
103	1938	Campus Confessions	Mrs. Twill	42
104	1939	Off the Record	Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)	60
105	1939	Wings of the Navy	Irene's Housekeeper	60
106	1939	Tail Spin	Mrs. Lee	58
107	1939	The Hound of the Baskervilles	Mrs. Hudson	71
108	1939	Broadway Serenade	Annie (uncredited)	62
109	1939	Code of the Streets	Mrs. Flaherty	70
110	1939	Racketeers of the Range	Mary-Benson's Housekeeper	62
111	1939	Captain Fury	Mrs. Bailey	48
112	1939	The Jones Family in Hollywood	Landlady (uncredited)	0
113	1939	Tell No Tales	Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)	53
114	1939	She Married a Cop	Ma Duffy	50
115	1939	The Story That Couldn't Be Printed	Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)	40
116	1939	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Mrs. Hudson	68
117	1939	The Escape	Neighbor	55
118	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Woman (uncredited)	79
119	1939	The Marshal Of Mesa City	Mrs. Dudley	80
120	1939	Rulers of the Sea	Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)	65
121	1939	Day-time Wife	Scrubwoman	63
122	1939	The Night of Nights	1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)	0
123	1939	Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President	Mrs. O'Leary	20
124	1940	The Invisible Man Returns	Cookie (uncredited)	62
125	1940	Women Without Names	Juror	48
126	1940	My Son, My Son!	Mrs. Mulvaney	43
127	1940	Saps at Sea	Mrs. O'Riley	68
128	1940	Tear Gas Squad	Mrs. Sullivan	48
129	1940	I Take This Oath	Mrs. Eileen Hanagan	43
130	1940	Brother Orchid	Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)	64
131	1940	The Last Alarm	Mrs. Hadley	46
132	1940	Queen of the Mob	Tenement Landlady	45
133	1940	When the Daltons Rode	Ma Dalton	60
134	1940	Young People	Old Woman	46
135	1940	Public Deb No. 1	Landlady	42
136	1940	Go West	Train Passenger	65
137	1940	Nobody's Children	Mary	0
138	1940	No, No, Nanette	Gertrude, the Cook	60
139	1940	Kitty Foyle	Cleaning Lady (uncredited)	65
140	1940	The Invisible Woman	Mrs. Bates	57
141	1941	Flight from Destiny	Martha	52
142	1941	Pot o' Gold	Mom McCorkle	55
143	1941	Double Cross	Mrs. Murray	48
144	1941	Unfinished Business	Miss Brady	53
145	1941	It Started with Eve	Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)	71
146	1941	Appointment for Love	Martha	52
147	1941	Borrowed Hero	Mrs. Riley	40
148	1941	Riot Squad	Mrs. McGonigle	0
149	1942	Sealed Lips	Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)	58
150	1942	Blue, White, and Perfect	Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)	63
151	1942	Bombay Clipper	Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson	55
152	1942	Fly By Night	Ma Prescott	64
153	1942	The Strange Case of Doctor Rx	Mrs. Scott	51
154	1942	Dr. Broadway	Broadway Carrie	50
155	1942	Meet the Stewarts	Mrs. Stewart	60
156	1942	It Happened in Flatbush	Mrs. Collins	48
157	1942	Powder Town	Mrs. Douglas	37
158	1942	The Pride of the Yankees	Maid (uncredited)	74
159	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror	Mrs. Hudson	65
160	1942	Half Way to Shanghai	Mrs. McIntyre	0
161	1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Jane Banning	57
162	1942	Gentleman Jim	Mrs. Casey (uncredited)	72
163	1942	Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon	Mrs. Hudson	63
164	1943	Keep 'Em Slugging	Mrs. Banning	55
165	1943	Sherlock Holmes in Washington	Mrs. Hudson	67
166	1943	Sarong Girl	Mattie	0
167	1943	Two Tickets to London	Mrs. Tinkle	60
168	1943	Sherlock Holmes Faces Death	Mrs. Hudson	68
169	1943	Here Comes Kelly	Mrs. Kelly	10
170	1943	Smart Guy	Maggie	50
171	1943	The Spider Woman	Mrs. Hudson	69
172	1943	Whispering Footsteps	Ma Murphy	53
173	1944	The Racket Man	Mom Benson	70
174	1944	Million Dollar Kid	Mrs. McGinnis	64
175	1944	The Hour Before the Dawn	Annie	50
176	1944	Follow the Leader		35
177	1944	Secrets of Scotland Yard	Libby, the Housekeeper	53
178	1944	Secret Command	Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)	68
179	1944	The Pearl of Death	Mrs. Hudson	70
180	1944	The Last Ride	Mrs. Mary Kelly	62
181	1944	Hollywood Canteen	Hostess (uncredited)	73
182	1945	See My Lawyer	Mrs. Fillmore	60
183	1945	Law of the Badlands		0
184	1945	The Body Snatcher	Mary McBride (uncredited)	70
185	1945	The Woman in Green	Mrs. Hudson	64
186	1945	Captain Eddie	Mrs. Westrom	60
187	1945	Divorce	Ellen	50
188	1945	Strange Confession	Mrs. O'Connor	68
189	1945	Kitty	Nanny	55
190	1946	Little Giant	Ma Miller	53
191	1946	Sentimental Journey	Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)	64
192	1946	The Hoodlum Saint	Trina	52
193	1946	Dressed to Kill	Mrs. Hudson	65
194	1946	In Fast Company	Mrs. Cassidy	63
195	1946	Shadows Over Chinatown	Mrs. Conover	57
196	1946	The Dark Horse	Mrs. Mahoney	0
197	1946	Sister Kenny	Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)	65
198	1947	The Long Night	Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)	58
199	1947	Exposed	Housekeeper	58
200	1947	The Invisible Wall	Mrs. Bledsoe	54
201	1947	Roses Are Red	Cleaning Lady	55
202	1947	The Judge Steps Out	Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)	70
203	1948	Angels' Alley	Mrs. Mamie Mahoney	40
204	1948	Big Town Scandal	Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)	50
205	1948	Fort Apache	Ma (barmaid)	70
206	1948	The Strange Mrs. Crane	Nora	60
207	1948	Kidnapped	Scottish Woman (uncredited)	55
208	1948	Highway 13	Aunt Myrt Lacy	57
209	1949	Shamrock Hill	Grandma Rogan	10
210	1949	Clues to Adventure	Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
211	1949	Tucson	Housemother (uncredited)	60
212	1949	Mr. Soft Touch	Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)	68
213	1949	Haunted Trails	Aunt Libby	0
214	1949	Deputy Marshal	Mrs. Lance	68
215	1949	The File on Thelma Jordon	Charwoman (Uncredited)	65
216	1950	West of Wyoming	Nora Jones	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Cisco Kid	Mary O'Toole	64