Edna May Oliver (November 9, 1883 – November 9, 1942) was an American stage and film actress. During the 1930s, she was one of the best-known character actresses in American films, often playing tart-tongued spinsters.
She was born Edna May Nutter in Malden, Massachusetts. The daughter of Ida May and Charles Edward Nutter, Edna was a descendant of the 6th American president John Quincy Adams. Miss Oliver took an early interest in the stage, and...
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Alice in Wonderland
As Red Queen
Rosalie
As Queen of Romanza
Ann Vickers
As Malvina Wormser
Second Fiddle
As Aunt Phoebe
Romeo and Juliet
As Juliet's Nurse
David Copperfield
As Aunt Betsey Trotwood
A Tale of Two Cities
As Miss Pross
Little Women
As Aunt March
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
As Maggie Sutton
Drums Along the Mohawk
As Mrs. Mc Klennar
Lydia
As Sarah MacMillan
Penguin Pool Murder
As Miss Hildegarde Martha Withers
Murder on a Honeymoon
As Hildegarde Withers
Half Shot at Sunrise
As Mrs. Marshall
No More Ladies
As Fanny 'Grandma' Townsend
Meet the Baron
As Dean Primrose
The Saturday Night Kid
As Miss Streeter
My Dear Miss Aldrich
As Mrs. Atherton
The Last Gentleman
As Augusta Pritchard, Cabot's sister
Murder on the Blackboard
As Hildegarde Withers
The Poor Rich
As Harriet Spottiswood
Laugh and Get Rich
As Sarah Cranston Austin
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
As Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)
We're Rich Again
As Maude Stanley
Paradise for Three
As Mrs. Kunkel
The Conquerors
As Matilda Blake
Parnell
As Aunt Ben Wood
Nurse Edith Cavell
As Countess de Mavon
Cracked Nuts
As Aunt Minnie Van Varden
Little Miss Broadway
As Sarah Wendling
Ladies of the Jury
As Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane
Only Yesterday
As Leona
Icebound
As Hannah
The Great Jasper
As Madame Talma
Cimarron
As Mrs. Tracy Wyatt
Fanny Foley Herself
As Fanny Foley
Hold 'Em Jail
As Violet Jones
Pride and Prejudice
As Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Newly Rich
As Bessie Tate
The American Venus
As Mrs. Niles
It's Great to Be Alive
As Dr. Prodwell
Let's Get Married
As J.W. Smith
Lovers in Quarantine
As Amelia Pincent
The Lucky Devil
As Mrs. McDee
Wife in Name Only
As Mrs. Dornham
Three O'Clock in the Morning
As Hetty
Restless Wives
As Benson's Secretary
Manhattan
As Mrs. Trapes
The Lady Who Lied