Mary Gordon
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Cisco Kid
Mary O'Toole
1950
Film
Bride of Frankenstein
Hans' Wife
1935
Film
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Woman (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Invisible Man
Screaming Woman (uncredited)
1933
Film
Fort Apache
Ma (barmaid)
1948
Film
Mutiny on the Bounty
Peddler (uncredited)
1935
Film
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
Film
Dressed to Kill
Mrs. Hudson
1946
Film
Go West
Train Passenger
1940
Film
Possessed
Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
1931
Film
Bonnie Scotland
Mrs. Bickerdike
1935
Film
Kitty Foyle
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
1940
Film
Sealed Lips
Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)
1942
Film
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Mrs. Hudson
1939
Film
Mary of Scotland
Nurse
1936
Film
Gentleman Jim
Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
1942
Film
The Invisible Man Returns
Cookie (uncredited)
1940
Film
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Mrs. Hudson
1942
Film
The Woman in Green
Mrs. Hudson
1945
Film
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Mrs. Hudson
1939
Film
After the Thin Man
Rose (uncredited)
1936
Film
Beauty Parlor
Landlady
1932
Film
The Body Snatcher
Mary McBride (uncredited)
1945
Film
The Long Night
Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
1947
Film
The Pearl of Death
Mrs. Hudson
1944
Film
The Pride of the Yankees
Maid (uncredited)
1942
Film
She Done Him Wrong
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
1933
Film
Manhattan Melodrama
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
1934
Film
My Woman
Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)
1933
Film
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death
Mrs. Hudson
1943
Film
Design for Living
Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
1933
Film
Blonde Venus
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Film
Pack Up Your Troubles
Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
1932
Film
The Invisible Woman
Mrs. Bates
1940
Film
Saps at Sea
Mrs. O'Riley
1940
Film
Brother Orchid
Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)
1940
Film
Appointment for Love
Martha
1941
Film
Waterloo Bridge
Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
1931
Film
Sister Kenny
Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)
1946
Film
Our Daily Bread
Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
1934
Film
You Can't Have Everything
YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)
1937
Film
Young People
Old Woman (uncredited)
1940
Film
Baby Take a Bow
Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)
1934
Film
Pot o' Gold
Mom McCorkle
1941
Film
Riot Squad
Mrs. McGonigle
1941
Film
The File on Thelma Jordon
Charwoman (uncredited)
1949
Film
The Spider Woman
Mrs. Hudson
1943
Film
Ladies They Talk About
Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)
1933
Film
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Mrs. Hudson
1942
Film
The Black Camel
Mrs. MacMasters
1931
Film
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Mrs. Hudson
1943
Film
Wild Girl
Washerwoman (uncredited)
1932
Film
Hollywood Canteen
Hostess (uncredited)
1944
Film
City Streets
Mrs. Devlin
1938
Film
Double Wedding
Mrs. Keough
1937
Film
Dr. Broadway
Broadway Carrie
1942
Film
Tucson
Housemother (uncredited)
1949
Film
Broadway Serenade
Annie (uncredited)
1939
Film
Double Cross
Mrs. Murray
1941
Film
Skyscraper Souls
Charwoman
1932
Film
Little Giant
Ma Miller
1946
Film
Exposed
Housekeeper
1947
Film
Mr. Soft Touch
Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)
1949
Film
The Mummy's Tomb
Jane Banning
1942
Film
The White Angel
Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
1936
Film
When the Daltons Rode
Ma Dalton
1940
Film
Pick a Star
Mrs Watts - The Undertaker’s Wife
1937
Film
Meet the Stewarts
Mrs. Stewart
1942
Film
Cross Streets
Sonny's Mother
1934
Film
Queen of the Mob
Tenement Landlady
1940
Film
The Great O'Malley
Mrs. O'Malley
1937
Film
Call Her Savage
Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)
1932
Film
It Started with Eve
Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
1941
Film
Tail Spin
Mrs. Lee
1939
Film
The Little Minister
Nanny
1934
Film
The Plough and the Stars
Woman at Barricades
1936
Film
Keep 'Em Slugging
Mrs. Banning
1943
Film
Pilgrimage
1933
Film
The Hoodlum Saint
Trina
1946
Film
Murder at the Vanities
Assistant Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
1934
Film
Naughty Nanette
Mrs. Rooney
1927
Film
Sentimental Journey
Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)
1946
Film
Meet the Baron
Washer Woman (uncredited)
1933
Film
Rulers of the Sea
Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)
1939
Film
The World Changes
Lady at Party (uncredited)
1933
Film
Gateway
Scottish Mother
1938
Film
Hell's Heroes
Choir Member (uncredited)
1929
Film
The Judge Steps Out
Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)
1947
Film
I Take This Oath
Mrs. Eileen Hanagan
1940
Film
Kitty
Nanny
1945
Film
Charlie Chan in London
Prison Visitor (uncredited)
1934
Film
Secret Command
Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)
1944
Film
My Son, My Son!
Mrs. Mulvaney
1940
Film
Her Husband Lies
Mrs. Jenks
1937
Film
Blond Cheat
Maggie (uncredited)
1938
Film
Great Guy
Mrs. Ogilvie
1936
Film
The Lady Consents
Apple Lady
1936
Film
Day-time Wife
Scrubwoman
1939
Film
Kidnapped
Mrs. MacDonald
1938
Film
The Plot Thickens
Woman with Bag (uncredited)
1936
Film
The Impatient Maiden
Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
1932
Film
No, No, Nanette
Gertrude, the Cook
1940
Film
Captain Fury
Mrs. Bailey
1939
Film
See My Lawyer
Mrs. Fillmore
1945
Film
Angels' Alley
Mrs. Mamie Mahoney
1948
Film
Little Mickey Grogan
Kind Landlady
1927
Tessie
Aunt Maggie
1925
Film
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
1933
Film
The Night of Nights
1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
1939
Film
You're Only Young Once
Mary's Mother (uncredited)
1937
Film
Vagabond Lady
Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)
1935
Film
The Woman Condemned
Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
1934
Film
One More River
Cook (Uncredited)
1934
Film
A Damsel in Distress
Cook (uncredited)
1937
Film
Doctor Bull
Townswoman at Meeting
1933
Film
Whom the Gods Destroy
Newfoundlander
1934
Film
Waterfront Lady
Mrs. O'Flaherty
1935
Film
The Irish in Us
Ma O'Hara
1935
Film
Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President
Mrs. O'Leary
1939
Film
The Racket Man
Mom Benson
1944
Film
West of Wyoming
Nora Jones
1950
Film
In Fast Company
Mrs. Cassidy
1946
Film
Dancers in the Dark
Scrubwoman
1932
Film
Clancy's Kosher Wedding
Molly Clancy
1927
Film
The People vs. Nancy Preston
Mrs. Tifft
1925
Film
Mannequin
Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)
1938
Film
Dynamite
Neighbor at Store
1929
Film
Captain Eddie
Mrs. Westrom
1945
Film
Women Without Names
Juror
1940
Film
Tell No Tales
Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Saturday Night Kid
Reducing customer (uncredited)
1929
Film
The Trial of Vivienne Ware
Court Matron (uncredited)
1932
Film
It Happened in Flatbush
Mrs. Collins
1942
Film
The Defense Rests
Scrub Woman
1934
Film
70,000 Witnesses
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
1932
Film
One Man Justice
Bridget
1937
Film
Little Miss Nobody
Mrs. Biddle
1936
Film
Fly By Night
Ma Prescott
1942
Film
Wings of the Navy
Irene's Housekeeper
1939
Film
A House Divided
Townswoman (uncredited)
1931
Film
Anybody's Woman
Maid
1930
Film
The Escape
Neighbor
1939
Film
Sarong Girl
Mattie
1943
Film
Kidnapped
Scottish Woman (uncredited)
1948
Film
Beloved
Mrs. O'Leary
1934
Film
The Last Alarm
Mrs. Hadley
1940
Film
The Loudspeaker
Landlady
1934
Film
Unfinished Business
Miss Brady
1941
Film
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Mrs. Leathwaite
1935
Film
Let Us Be Gay
Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
1930
Film
Hangman's House
The Woman at Hogan's Hideout
1928
Film
The Invisible Wall
Mrs. Bledsoe
1947
Film
Public Deb No. 1
Landlady
1940
Film
The Power and the Glory
Nurse (uncredited)
1933
Film
Change of Heart
Woman in Street (uncredited)
1934
Film
The Man from Hell
Mrs. Frank McCarrol
1934
Film
Big Town Scandal
Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
1948
Film
The Brat
Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
1931
Film
Meet the Boy Friend
Mrs. Grimes
1937
Film
Code of the Streets
Mrs. Flaherty
1939
Film
Blue, White and Perfect
Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)
1942
Film
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Landlady (uncredited)
1939
Film
Two Tickets to London
Mrs. Tinkle
1943
Film
Shadows Over Chinatown
Mrs. Conover
1946
Film
Flight from Destiny
Martha
1941
Film
Off the Record
Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)
1939
Film
The Ol' Gray Hoss
First taxi passenger
1928
Film
Deputy Marshal
Mrs. Lance
1949
Film
Sweepings
Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)
1933
Film
When the Wind Blows
Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
1930
Film
Oh, for a Man!
Stage Door Admirer with Violets
1930
Film
The Matinee Idol
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
1928
Film
Smart Guy
Maggie
1943
Film
Laughing Irish Eyes
Mrs. O'Keefe
1936
Film
Campus Confessions
Mrs. Twill
1938
Film
Broadway Thru a Keyhole
Cleaning Woman
1933
Film
Tear Gas Squad
Mrs. Sullivan
1940
Film
$10 Raise
Landlady (uncredited)
1935
Film
Lady Behave!
Cook
1937
Film
Million Dollar Kid
Mrs. McGinnis
1944
Film
Forgotten Faces
Mrs. O'Leary
1936
Film
Is Everybody Happy?
Neighbor (uncredited)
1929
Film
The Expert
Neighbor
1932
Film
Friend Indeed
Housekeeper
1937
Film
Madame X
Nursemaid (uncredited)
1929
Film
The Marshal Of Mesa City
Mrs. Dudley
1939
Film
Bombay Clipper
Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson
1942
Film
The Hour Before the Dawn
Annie
1944
Film
The Strange Mrs. Crane
Nora
1948
Film
Here Comes Kelly
Mrs. Kelly
1943
Film
Divorce
Ellen
1945
Film
Share the Wealth
Ma MacClyde
1936
Film
Strange Confession
Mrs. O'Connor
1945
The Old Code
Mary MacGregor
1928
Film
24 Hours
Nurse
1931
Film
Roses Are Red
Cleaning Lady
1947
Film
Annie Laurie
1927
Film
Roaring Ranch
Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
1930
Film
Texas Cyclone
Kate
1932
Film
Clues to Adventure
Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
1949
Film
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Mrs. Scott
1942
Film
The Last Ride
Mrs. Mary Kelly
1944
Film
Men Must Fight
Pacifist Audience Member
1933
Film
Half Way to Shanghai
Mrs. McIntyre
1942
Film
Borrowed Hero
Mrs. Riley
1941
Film
Haunted Trails
Aunt Libby
1949
Film
Powder Town
Mrs. Douglas
1942
Film
Highway 13
Aunt Myrt Lacy
1948
Film
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Libby, the Housekeeper
1944
Film
The Whirlwind
Mrs. Curtis
1933
Film
Follow the Leader
1944
Film
Subway Express
Mrs. Delaney
1931
Film
The Dark Horse
Mrs. Mahoney
1946
Film
The Home Maker
Mrs. Hennessy
1925
Film
The Story That Couldn't Be Printed
Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
1939
Film
She Married a Cop
Ma Duffy
1939
Film
Racketeers of the Range
Mary-Benson's Housekeeper
1939
Film
Stage Struck
Mrs. Cassidy
1936
Film
Radio Patrol
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Film
Law of the Badlands
1945
Film
Whispering Footsteps
Ma Murphy
1943
Film
Shamrock Hill
Grandma Rogan
1949
Film
Song o' My Heart
Irish Woman
1930
Film
Nobody's Children
Mary
1940
Film
Ginger
Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)
1935
His Honor the Mayor
His Wife
1930
Film
Black Paradise
Mrs. Murphy
1926
Film
Nature in the Wrong
Mrs. Clancy
1933
The Ghosts
Chubby's Mama
1930