Ethel Griffies - Turner Classic Movies

Filmography

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Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)

The Birds (1963)

Billy Liar (1963)

Grandmother Florence

The Homestretch (1947)

Millie's Daughter (1947)

Devotion (1946)

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Billy Liar (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Day Of Big Decisions

Molly And Me (1945) -- (Movie Clip) I Do Hope Your Ladyship Approves

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Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965)

The Birds (1963)

Billy Liar (1963)

Grandmother Florence

The Homestretch (1947)

Millie's Daughter (1947)

Devotion (1946)

Saratoga Trunk (1946)

Madame Clarissa Van Steed

Sing While You Dance (1946)

Mrs. Abigail Smith

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Thrill of a Romance (1945)

Mrs. Sarah Fenway

Molly and Me (1945)

Music for Millions (1945)

The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

Pardon My Rhythm (1944)

Mrs. [Martha] Dean

Jane Eyre (1944)

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)

Justice of the peace's wife

Time to Kill (1943)

Holy Matrimony (1943)

Forever and a Day (1943)

Woman in shelter

First Comes Courage (1943)

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)

Madame Saturnia

Right to the Heart (1942)

Minerva Bromley

Between Us Girls (1942)

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

Catherine Vanderwater

Son of Fury (1942)

A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)

Great Guns (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Miss [Patience] Nodbury

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Billy the Kid (1941)

Man at Large (1941)

Princess Minetti

Vigil in the Night (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

We Are Not Alone (1939)

The Star Maker (1939)

Man with 100 Faces (1938)

Anna Karénina (1935)

Werewolf of London (1935)

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Miss Twinkleton

The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)

Mrs. Martha Bartholomew

Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)

Hold 'Em Yale (1935)

Sadie McKee (1934)

Woman in subway

The Painted Veil (1934)

Lady Coldchester

Jane Eyre (1934)

Call It Luck (1934)

Lady Poindexter

Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)

Four Frightened People (1934)

Mrs. Ainger's mother

We Live Again (1934)

Stolen Sweets (1934)

The House of Rothschild (1934)

Guest at reception hall

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

A Lady's Profession (1933)

Horseplay (1933)

Midnight Club (1933)

White Woman (1933)

Tonight Is Ours (1933)

Torch Singer (1933)

Are You Listening? (1932)

Westward Passage (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

The Impatient Maiden (1932)

Once a Lady (1931)

The Road to Singapore (1931)

Waterloo Bridge (1931)

The Millionaire (1931)

Manhattan Parade (1931)

Old English (1930)

Life Events

Videos

Billy Liar (1963) -- (Movie Clip) A Day Of Big Decisions Ignoring his Mum, Dad and Gram (Mona Washbourne, Wilfred Pickles and Ethel Griffies) Billy (Tom Courtenay) enjoys a waking dream (featuring Julie Christie) of the Republic of Ambrosia in the first narrative scene from Billy Liar, 1963, directed by John Schlesinger.

Molly And Me (1945) -- (Movie Clip) I Do Hope Your Ladyship Approves From the top, English superstar Gracie Fields as the title character, eager to disguise the theatrical boarding house she runs, Queenie Leonard and Edith Barrett her compatriots, Natalie Schafer (from Gillian’s Island) visiting, in Molly And Me, 1945, with Monty Woolley and Roddy McDowall.

We Live Again -- (Movie Clip) Peasants and Ourselves... The lovely serf Katusha (Anna Sten) hurries to greet the returning Russian Prince Dimitri (Fredric March) who has alarmed his aunts (Gwendolyn Logan and Ethel Griffies) with proletarian notions in We Live Again, 1934.

Waterloo Bridge (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Easiest Way In London circa 1916, ex-ballerina Kitty (Virginia Field) is found out in her secret profession by her former colleague and current impoverished roommate Myra (Vivien Leigh), whose betrothed is away at war, in a pivotal scene from Mervyn LeRoy's Waterloo Bridge, 1940.

Birds, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) That Man's Lighting A Cigar! Mitch (Rod Taylor) is failing to get citizens at the diner to unite in action when another bird attacks across the street at the gas station, director Alfred Hitchcock playing with sound and fire, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) nearly victimized, a famous sequence from The Birds, 1963.

Return Of Peter Grimm, The (1936) -- (Movie Clip) I Raise Flowers Not Spirits! Opening scene, Lionel Barrymore as grumpy florist Grimm, the reluctant host of a seance run by his medium friend Dr. MacPherson (Edward Ellis), Donald Meek, Ethel Griffies among the irritated guests, in the RKO remake of The Return Of Peter Grimm, 1936, based on a play by David Belasco.

Mystery Of Edwin Drood (1935) -- (Movie Clip) May She Always Be Cherished New tensions, brother and sister Neville and Helena (Douglass Montgomery, Valerie Hobson), in from Ceylon, meeting among others Rosa (Heather Angel), her betrothed Edwin (David Manners) and his uncle Jasper (Claude Rains), in the 1935 production of Charles Dickens' Mystery Of Edwin Drood.

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