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Born · May 16, 1882
Died · August 23, 1963 (81 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.
Mary O'Toole · (1 episode)
6.4
1950
Nora Jones
6.0
1950
Charwoman (Uncredited)
6.5
1949
Mrs. Lance
6.8
1949
Aunt Libby
0.0
1949
Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)
6.8
1949
Housemother (uncredited)
6.0
1949
Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.0
1949
Grandma Rogan
1.0
1949
Aunt Myrt Lacy
5.7
1948
Scottish Woman (uncredited)
5.5
1948
Nora
6.0
1948
Ma (barmaid)
7.0
1948
Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
5.0
1948
Mrs. Mamie Mahoney
4.0
1948
Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)
7.0
1947
Cleaning Lady
5.5
1947
Mrs. Bledsoe
5.4
1947
Housekeeper
5.8
1947
Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)
5.8
1947
Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)
6.5
1946
Mrs. Mahoney
0.0
1946
Mrs. Conover
5.7
1946
Mrs. Cassidy
6.3
1946
Mrs. Hudson
6.5
1946
Trina
5.2
1946
Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)
6.4
1946
Ma Miller
5.3
1946
Nanny
5.5
1945
Mrs. O'Connor
6.8
1945
Ellen
5.0
1945
Mrs. Westrom
6.0
1945
Mrs. Hudson
6.4
1945
Mary McBride (uncredited)
7.0
1945
0.0
1945
Mrs. Fillmore
6.0
1945
Hostess (uncredited)
7.3
1944
Mrs. Mary Kelly
6.2
1944
Mrs. Hudson
7.0
1944
Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)
6.8
1944
Libby, the Housekeeper
5.3
1944
3.5
1944
Annie
5.0
1944
Mrs. McGinnis
6.4
1944
Mom Benson
6.0
1944
Ma Murphy
5.3
1943
Mrs. Hudson
6.9
1943
Maggie
5.0
1943
Mrs. Kelly
1.0
1943
Mrs. Hudson
6.9
1943
Mrs. Tinkle
6.0
1943
Mattie
0.0
1943
Mrs. Hudson
6.7
1943
Mrs. Banning
5.5
1943
Mrs. Hudson
6.3
1942
Mrs. Casey (uncredited)
7.2
1942
Jane Banning
5.7
1942
Mrs. Hudson
6.5
1942
Mrs. McIntyre
0.0
1942
Maid (uncredited)
7.4
1942
Mrs. Douglas
3.7
1942
Mrs. Collins
4.8
1942
Mrs. Stewart
6.0
1942
Broadway Carrie
5.0
1942
Mrs. Scott
5.1
1942
Ma Prescott
6.4
1942
Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson
5.5
1942
Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)
6.3
1942
Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)
5.8
1942
Mrs. McGonigle
0.0
1941
Mrs. Riley
4.0
1941
Martha
5.2
1941
Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)
7.1
1941
Miss Brady
5.3
1941
Mrs. Murray
4.8
1941
Mom McCorkle
5.5
1941
Martha
5.2
1941
Mrs. Bates
5.7
1940
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
6.5
1940
Gertrude, the Cook
6.0
1940
Mary
0.0
1940
Train Passenger
6.5
1940
Landlady
4.2
1940
Old Woman
4.6
1940
Ma Dalton
6.0
1940
Tenement Landlady
4.5
1940
Mrs. Hadley
4.6
1940
Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)
6.4
1940
Mrs. Eileen Hanagan
4.3
1940
Mrs. Sullivan
4.8
1940
Mrs. O'Riley
6.8
1940
Mrs. Mulvaney
4.3
1940
Juror
4.8
1940
Cookie (uncredited)
6.2
1940
1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)
0.0
1939
Mrs. O'Leary
2.0
1939
Scrubwoman
6.3
1939
Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)
6.5
1939
Mrs. Dudley
8.0
1939
Woman (uncredited)
7.9
1939
Neighbor
5.5
1939
Mrs. Hudson
6.8
1939
Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
4.0
1939
Ma Duffy
5.0
1939
Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)
5.3
1939
Landlady (uncredited)
0.0
1939
Mary-Benson's Housekeeper
6.2
1939
Mrs. Bailey
4.8
1939
Mrs. Flaherty
7.0
1939
Annie (uncredited)
6.2
1939
Mrs. Hudson
7.1
1939
Mrs. Lee
5.8
1939
Irene's Housekeeper
6.0
1939
Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)
6.0
1939
Mrs. Twill
4.2
1938
Scottish Mother
6.5
1938
Mrs. Devlin
0.0
1938
Maggie (uncredited)
6.0
1938
Mrs. MacDonald
6.0
1938
Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)
6.0
1938
Housekeeper
0.0
1937
Cook
5.2
1937
Mary's Mother (uncredited)
5.5
1937
Cook (uncredited)
6.4
1937
Mrs. Keough
6.5
1937
YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)
5.7
1937
Mrs. Grimes
6.0
1937
Mrs. Jenks
6.0
1937
Mrs. O'Malley
6.7
1937
Woman at Barricades
5.6
1936
Rose (uncredited)
7.3
1936
Woman with Bag
6.2
1936
Mrs. Ogilvie
6.2
1936
Mrs. Cassidy
4.0
1936
Nurse
6.3
1936
Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
8.0
1936
Mrs. Biddle
6.0
1936
Mrs. O'Leary
0.0
1936
Ma MacClyde
3.0
1936
Mrs. O'Keefe
0.0
1936
Apple Lady
5.8
1936
Peddler (uncredited)
7.3
1935
Mrs. O'Flaherty
5.5
1935
Mrs. Bickerdike
6.6
1935
Ma O'Hara
7.7
1935
Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)
4.7
1935
Landlady (uncredited)
8.0
1935
Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)
7.2
1935
Hans' Wife
7.5
1935
Mrs. Leathwaite
6.0
1935
Nanny
5.9
1934
Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
6.8
1934
Prison Visitor (uncredited)
6.9
1934
Mrs. Frank McCarrol
4.5
1934
Cook (Uncredited)
5.3
1934
Scrub Woman
7.0
1934
Newfoundlander
5.5
1934
Sonny's Mother
5.8
1934
Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)
5.5
1934
Landlady
0.0
1934
Woman in Street
6.3
1934
5.4
1934
Boat Passenger (uncredited)
7.0
1934
Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
4.3
1934
Mrs. O'Leary
0.0
1934
Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
7.1
1933
Screaming Woman (uncredited)
7.5
1933
Cleaning Woman
5.7
1933
Washer Woman (uncredited)
4.3
1933
Nurse (uncredited)
5.9
1933
Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)
3.4
1933
Townswoman at Meeting
6.6
1933
6.8
1933
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
5.5
1933
Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)
5.8
1933
Mrs. Curtis
0.0
1933
Mrs. Clancy
0.0
1933
Pacifist Audience Member
5.7
1933
Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
5.8
1933
Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)
6.1
1933
Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)
5.8
1932
Washerwoman (uncredited)
6.0
1932
Landlady (uncredited)
6.8
1932
Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
6.7
1932
Scrubwoman (uncredited)
4.8
1932
Charwoman
5.6
1932
Landlady
5.0
1932
Landlady (uncredited)
0.0
1932
Scrubwoman
4.8
1932
Neighbor
6.3
1932
Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
0.0
1932
Kate
4.3
1932
Townswoman (uncredited)
6.2
1931
Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
7.1
1931
Nurse
5.5
1931
Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
7.0
1931
Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
5.6
1931
Mrs. MacMasters
6.0
1931
Mrs. Delaney
0.0
1931
Stage Door Admirer with Violets
5.7
1930
Maid
5.9
1930
Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
0.0
1930
Chubby's Mama
0.0
1930
Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
6.1
1930
His Wife
0.0
1930
Irish Woman
3.7
1930
Choir Member (uncredited)
6.8
1929
Reducing customer (uncredited)
4.4
1929
Neighbor (uncredited)
0.0
1929
Nursemaid (uncredited)
6.0
1929
First taxi passenger
6.0
1928
The Woman at Hogan's Hideout
6.3
1928
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
6.3
1928
Mrs. Rooney
0.0
1927
Mrs. Murphy
4.0
1926
Mrs. Hennessy
0.0
1925