Maude Eburne
Biography
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Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect."
She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.
Filmography
Arson, Inc.
1949
as Grandma
The Lawton Story
1949
as Henrietta
The Plunderers
1948
as Old Dame at Wedding
Slippy McGee
1948
as Mrs. Dexter
Hitchhike to Happiness
1945
as Mrs. Randall
Man from Oklahoma
1945
as Grandma Lane
The Suspect
1945
as Mrs. Packer
The Town Went Wild
1944
as Judge Bingle
The Princess and the Pirate
1944
as Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn'
Bowery to Broadway
1944
as Mame Alda
I'm from Arkansas
1944
as Matilda Jenkins
Rosie the Riveter
1944
as Granma Quill
Up in Arms
1944
as Woman on Cable Car (uncredited)
The Chance of a Lifetime
1943
as Edna Counihan (Uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
1943
as Maggie (uncredited)
Lady Bodyguard
1943
as Mother Hodges
Dawn on the Great Divide
1942
as Sarah Harkins
The Boogie Man Will Get You
1942
as Amelia Jones
Henry Aldrich, Editor
1942
as Mrs. Norris
There's One Born Every Minute
1942
as Agatha
Henry and Dizzy
1942
as Martha Bradley
Almost Married
1942
as Mrs. Clayton
To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Anna
Among the Living
1941
as Mrs. Pickens