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Mae Marsh (1894–1968)


Mae Marsh's father was an auditor for the railroad who died when she was four. Her family moved to San Francisco, where her stepfather was killed in the 1906 earthquake. Her great-aunt then took Mae and her sister to Los Angeles. With her show business background, Mae's aunt took them to the various movie studios for work as extras... See full bio »

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Filmography

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1964 Cheyenne Autumn
Woman (uncredited)
 
1963 Donovan's Reef
Family Council Member (uncredited)
 
1961 Two Rode Together
Hanna Clegg (uncredited)
 
1960 Wagon Train (TV series)
Mrs. Jesse Grant
The Colter Craven Story (1960) … Mrs. Jesse Grant (uncredited)
 
1960 From the Terrace
Sandy's Governess (uncredited)
 
1960 Sergeant Rutledge
Mrs. Nellie Hackett (uncredited)
 
1959 Bonanza (TV series)
Mary
The Phillip Diedesheimer Story (1959) … Mary
 
1958 The Last Hurrah
Mourner at Wake (uncredited)
 
1958 Cry Terror!
Woman in Elevator (replaced by Marjorie Bennett) (scenes deleted)
 
1957 The Wings of Eagles
Nurse Crumley (uncredited)
 
1956 Julie
Hysterical Passenger
 
1956 Girls in Prison
'Grandma' Edwards
 
1956 While the City Sleeps
Mrs. Manners
 
1956 The Searchers
Dark Cloaked Woman at Fort Guarding Deranged Woman (uncredited)
 
1955 Hell on Frisco Bay
Mrs. Cobb, Steve's Landlady (uncredited)
 
1955 Good Morning, Miss Dove
Woman in Bank (uncredited)
 
1955 The Tall Men
Emigrant (uncredited)
 
1955 Prince of Players
Witch in 'Macbeth' (uncredited)
 
1954 A Star Is Born
Malibu Party Guest (uncredited)
 
1953 The Robe
Jerusalem Woman Aiding Demetrius (uncredited)
 
1953 A Blueprint for Murder
Anna Swenson - Lynne's Housekeeper (uncredited)
 
1953 Powder River
Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1953 The Sun Shines Bright
G.A.R. Woman at the Ball
 
1953 Titanic
Woman to Whom Norman Gave His Seat (uncredited)
 
1952 Night Without Sleep
Maid (uncredited)
 
1952 The Quiet Man
Father Paul's Mother (uncredited)
 
1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker
Talkative patient (uncredited)
 
1950 The Jackpot
Mrs. Woodruff in Photo (uncredited)
 
1950 My Blue Heaven
Maid (uncredited)
 
1950 The Gunfighter
Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)
 
1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home
Mrs. Clara Fettles (uncredited)
 
1949 Everybody Does It
Higgins - the Borlands' Maid (uncredited)
 
1949 The Fighting Kentuckian
Sister Hattie
 
1949 It Happens Every Spring
Greenleaf's Maid (uncredited)
 
1949 Impact
Mrs. King
 
1949 A Letter to Three Wives
Miss Jenkins (uncredited)
 
1948 The Snake Pit
Tommy's Mother (uncredited)
 
1948 Deep Waters
Molly Thatcher
 
1947 Daisy Kenyon
Woman Leaving Apartment (uncredited)
 
1947 Thunder in the Valley
Flower Vendor (uncredited)
 
1947 Mother Wore Tights
Resort Guest (uncredited)
 
1947 Miracle on 34th Street
Woman in Santa Line (uncredited)
 
1947 The Late George Apley
Maid (uncredited)
 
1946 My Darling Clementine
Simpson's Sister (uncredited)
 
1946 Smoky
Woman Watching Parade (uncredited)
 
1946 Johnny Comes Flying Home
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
 
1945 Leave Her to Heaven
Fisherwoman (uncredited)
 
1945 The Dolly Sisters
Annie (uncredited)
 
1945 State Fair
Ring-Toss Spectator (uncredited)
 
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tynmore Sister (uncredited)
 
1944 In the Meantime, Darling
Emma (uncredited)
 
1944 The Fighting Sullivans
Neighbor of Mrs. Griffin (uncredited)
 
1943 Jane Eyre
Leah (uncredited)
 
1943 The Song of Bernadette
Woman (uncredited)
 
1943 Tonight We Raid Calais
French Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1943 The Moon Is Down
Villager (uncredited)
 
1943 Dixie Dugan
Mrs. Sloan
 
1943 The Meanest Man in the World
Old Lady (uncredited)
 
1942 Quiet Please: Murder
Miss Hartwig (uncredited)
 
1942 It's Everybody's War (short)
Bit Role (uncredited)
 
1942 The Man in the Trunk
Mrs. Inge (uncredited)
 
1942 The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe
Mrs. Phillips (uncredited)
 
1942 Just Off Broadway
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
 
1942 Tales of Manhattan
Molly (Robinson sequence)
 
1942 It Happened in Flatbush
Aunt Mae, Team Co-Owner (uncredited)
 
1942 Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)
 
1942 Blue, White and Perfect
Mrs. Bertha Toby
 
1941 Remember the Day
Teacher (uncredited)
 
1941 How Green Was My Valley
Miner's Wife (uncredited)
 
1941 Swamp Water
Mrs. McCord (uncredited)
 
1941 Great Guns
Aunt Martha
 
1941 Belle Starr
Preacher's Wife (uncredited)
 
1941 The Cowboy and the Blonde
Office Worker (uncredited)
 
1941 Tobacco Road
County Clerk's Assistant (uncredited)
 
1940 Young People
Maria Liggett
 
1940 Four Sons
Townswoman (uncredited)
 
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
Muley's Wife (uncredited)
 
1940 The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Mrs. Stetson
 
1939 Swanee River
Mrs. Jonathan Fry (uncredited)
 
1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Extra as Empire State Building Tourist (uncredited)
 
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk
Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
 
1936 Hollywood Boulevard
Carlotta Blakeford
 
1935 Black Fury
Mrs. Mary Novak
 
1934 Bachelor of Arts
Mrs. Mary Barth
 
1934 Little Man, What Now?
Wife of Karl Goebbler
 
1933 Alice in Wonderland
Sheep
 
1932 That's My Boy
Mom Scott
 
1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Aunt Jane
 
1931 Over the Hill
Ma Shelby
 
1928 Racing Through
 
1926 The Rat
Odile Etrange
 
1925 Tides of Passion
Charity
 
1924 Arabella
Arabella
 
1924 Daddies
Ruth Atkins
 
1922 Flames of Passion
Dorothy Hawke
 
1922 Till We Meet Again
Marion Bates
 
1921 Nobody's Kid
Mary Cary
 
1920 The Little 'Fraid Lady
Cecilia Carne
 
1919 The Mother and the Law
The Little Dear One
 
1919 Spotlight Sadie
Sadie Sullivan
 
1919 The Bondage of Barbara
Barbara Grey
 
1918 The Racing Strain
Lucille Cameron
 
1918 Hidden Fires
Peggy Murray/Louise Parke
 
1918 Money Mad
Elsie Dean
 
1918 The Glorious Adventure
Carey Wethersbee
 
1918 All Woman
Susan Sweeney
 
1918 The Face in the Dark
Jane Ridgeway
 
1918 The Beloved Traitor
Mary Garland
 
1918 Fields of Honor
Marie Messereau
 
1917 The Cinderella Man
Marjorie Caner
 
1917 Sunshine Alley
Nell
 
1917 Polly of the Circus
Polly
 
1916 The Wharf Rat
Polly
 
1916 The Little Liar
Maggie
 
1916 The Marriage of Molly-O
Molly-O
 
1916 A Wild Girl of the Sierras
The Wild Girl
 
1916 A Child of the Paris Streets
Julie/the child-wife
 
1915 Her Shattered Idol
Mae Carter
 
1915 The Victim (short)
Mary Hastings, Frank's Wife
 
1915 The Outlaw's Revenge
The American lover
 
1915 The Outcast
The Girl of the Slums
 
1915 The Birth of a Nation
Flora Cameron - The Pet Sister
 
1914 Paid with Interest (short)
Mame
 
1914 The Genius (short)
Nell Graham
 
1914 The Great God Fear (short)
Meta
 
1914 Meg of the Mines (short)
Meg
 
1914 Moonshine Molly (short)
Molly Boone
 
1914 The Birthday Present (short)
 
1914 The Escape
Jennie Joyce
 
1914 The Swindlers (short)
Alice Rodney
 
1914 The Girl in the Shack (short)
The Wild Frontier Girl
 
1914 Home, Sweet Home
Apple Pie Mary Smith
 
1914 The Broken Bottle (short)
 
1914 The Primitive Man (short)
Lillywhite
 
1914 Apple Pie Mary (short)
Aple Pie Mary
 
1914 Judith of Bethulia
Naomi
 
1913 The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (short)
Sally Cameron
 
1913 By Man's Law (short)
Ann Calvert - Sister Owner
 
1913 The Girl Across the Way (short)
Grace - the Girl
 
1913 Influence of the Unknown (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 For the Son of the House (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 Two Men of the Desert (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1913 The Sorrowful Shore (short)
On Shore (uncredited)
 
1913 Her Mother's Oath (short)
In Church
 
1913 The Mothering Heart (short)
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
 
1913 A Timely Interception (short)
 
1913 His Mother's Son (short)
The Daughter
 
1913/II The Wanderer (short)
The Other Parents' Daughter, as an Adult
 
1913 If We Only Knew (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1913 The Lady and the Mouse (short)
Undetermined Role (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
 
1913 The Little Tease (short)
The Little Tease, as an Adult
 
1913 The Perfidy of Mary (short)
Mary
 
1913 Fate (short)
Mother, Loving Family
 
1913 Near to Earth (short)
One of Marie's Friends
 
1913 A Girl's Stratagem (short)
The Young Woman
 
1913 Broken Ways (short)
 
1913 Love in an Apartment Hotel (short)
Angelina Millingford, a Maid
 
1913 The Tender Hearted Boy (short)
The Tender-Hearted Boy's sister
 
1913 An Adventure in the Autumn Woods (short)
The Girl
 
1913 The Telephone Girl and the Lady (short)
The Telephone Girl
 
1913 Three Friends (short)
The Wife's Friend
 
1912 The Indian Uprising at Santa Fe (short)
Juan
 
1912 The New York Hat (short)
Second Gossip
 
1912 Brutality (short)
The Young Woman
 
1912 The Civilian (short)
Ethel Brown
 
1912 For the Honor of the Seventh (short)
The Girl in Town
 
1912 Two Daughters of Eve (short)
 
1912 The Parasite (short)
Madge Adams - Fred's Sister
 
1912 Kentucky Girl (short)
Belle Hopkins - Bob's Sister
 
1912 The Inner Circle (short)
 
1912 The Sands of Dee (short)
Mary
 
1912 Man's Genesis (short)
Lillywhite
 
1912 An Indian Summer (short)
The Widow's Daughter
 
1912 The School Teacher and the Waif (short)
Schoolgirl
 
1912 The Spirit Awakened (short)
The Renegade Farmhand's Sweetheart
 
1912 Lena and the Geese (short)
The 'Adopted' Daughter
 
1912 A Temporary Truce (short)
A Murdered Settler
 
1912 Home Folks (short)
At Barn Dance
 
1912 A Beast at Bay (short)
The Young Woman's Friend
 
1912 When Kings Were the Law (short)
At Court (uncredited)
 
1912 His Lesson (short)
A Visitor
 
1912 A Lodging for the Night (short)
First Mexican Couple, the Woman
 
1912 The Old Actor (short)
 
1912 The Lesser Evil (short)
The Young Woman's Companion
 
1912 Just Like a Woman (short)
In Club
 
1912 A Voice from the Deep (short)
On Beach
 
1912 A Siren of Impulse (short)
 
1911 Fighting Blood (short)
 
1910 Serious Sixteen (short)
 
1910 Ramona (short)
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1927 Life in Hollywood No. 4 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1918 United States Fourth Liberty Loan Drive (short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (10 titles)
1998 The Making of 'The Birth of a Nation' (video documentary short)
Herself/Flora Cameron
 
1988 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
1975 Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (TV documentary)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1975 The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (documentary)
Herself
 
1968 Black History: Lost Stolen, or Strayed (TV documentary)
Herself/Flora Cameron (uncredited)
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1947 Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1933 March of the Movies
Herself, film clip (uncredited)
 
1931 Thrills of Yesterday (short)
Herself
 
1931 The Movie Album (documentary short)
Herself
 

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Height:

5' 3" (1.60 m)
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Upon her death, her remains were interred in Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Her location plot is Grave 10, Lot 838, Section 5. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio