Emma Dunn
Acting
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Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures.
Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville.
Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons.
Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947).
Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883.
Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931.
After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.
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Emma Dunn
Mrs. Vesey
... 1948
Mrs. Borden
... 1947
Margaret
... 1947
Maggie
... 1946
Mary Ballinger
... 1944
Ma Henderson
... 1944
Mrs. Keaver (uncredited)
... 1944
Doña Mercedes
... 1944
Mom Smith
... 1943
Molly Baker
... 1943
Wife of Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
... 1942
Mrs. Shelley
... 1942
Martha Carter
... 1942
Agnes
... 1942
Mrs. Williams
... 1941
Mrs. Murray
... 1941
Sister Theresa
... 1941
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1941
Mirandy Baines
... 1941
Mirandy Baines
... 1941
'Ma' McCormick
... 1941
Aunt Della (uncredited)
... 1941
Mirandy Baines
... 1941
Martha
... 1941
Mrs. Jaeckel
... 1940
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1940
Mrs. Simpson
... 1940
Ma Matthews
... 1940
Mother Fields
... 1940
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1940
Granny Gladden
... 1940
Mrs. Welty
... 1940
Mrs. O'Neill
... 1940
Doña Teresa
... 1939
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1939
Emmy "Moms" Higgins
... 1939
Mrs. Ross
... 1939
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1939
Amelia
... 1939
Jack's Mother
... 1938
Ma Hawkins
... 1938
Mrs. Platt
... 1938
Mrs. Martha Kildare
... 1938
Mrs. Briggs
... 1938
Ma Hardy
... 1938
Mrs. Briggs
... 1938
Rose, Fleuriot's Houskeeper
... 1937
Mrs. Smith
... 1937
Emma Peterson
... 1937
Anna - Olga's Housekeeper
... 1937
Mother
... 1937
Molly
... 1937
Mrs. Hamilton
... 1937
Mrs. Brown
... 1936
Granny Moreland
... 1936
Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)
... 1936
Sheila's Mother (uncredited)
... 1935
Mrs. Quimby
... 1935
Mrs. Davis
... 1935
Orphanage Matron
... 1935
Margaret Campbell
... 1935
Mrs. Phelan
... 1935
'Mom' Madvig
... 1935
Aunt Jane
... 1935
Mrs. Poole
... 1934
Mrs. Monahan
... 1934
Cordelia Tilford
... 1934
Mrs. Mayhew
... 1934
Mrs. John Russell Sr.
... 1933
Mrs. Wilton
... 1933
Mrs. Kane
... 1933
Mrs. Jones
... 1933
Reporter
... 1933
Mrs. Hawks (uncredited)
... 1933
Mrs. Roberts
... 1932
Mrs. Darrow
... 1932
'Moms' McClenahan
... 1932
Mrs. Sarah Cohen
... 1932
Mrs. Chilcote
... 1932
Emma Clark
... 1932
Frau Miller
... 1932
Mrs. Evans (uncredited)
... 1932
Nina Palmero
... 1931
Mrs. Squires
... 1931
Mrs. Hutson
... 1931
Emma
... 1931
Margaret Blake
... 1931
Mrs. Bumpstead
... 1931
Mrs. Madison
... 1931
Mrs. Farraday
... 1931
Miss Bennett
... 1930
Señora Doña Marguerita Ibarra
... 1930
Nora O'Farrell
... 1929
Mother Malone
... 1924
Angie Rose
... 1920
Mrs. Wetherell
... 1914