Actor
Edna May Oliver
November 8, 1883 · Malden, Massachusetts, USA
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 she would quit school at the age of 14 to pursue her ambitions in the theater.
Often works with
Basil Rathbone
3 titles together
A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Romeo and Juliet
James Gleason
3 titles together
The Penguin Pool Murder, Murder on a Honeymoon, Murder on the Blackboard
Irving Bacon
3 titles together
Murder on a Honeymoon, Ann Vickers, The Saturday Night Kid
Maureen O'Sullivan
2 titles together
Pride and Prejudice, David Copperfield
Edmund Gwenn
2 titles together
Pride and Prejudice, Parnell
E. E. Clive
2 titles together
Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities
Full filmography · 48
Lydia
as Sarah MacMillan
1941
Pride and Prejudice
as Lady Catherine de Bourgh
19406.9
Drums Along the Mohawk
as Mrs. Mc Klennar
19396.5
Nurse Edith Cavell
as Countess de Mavon
1939
Second Fiddle
as Aunt Phoebe
1939
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
as Maggie Sutton
19397
Little Miss Broadway
as Sarah Wendling
1938
Paradise for Three
as Mrs. Kunkel
1938
Rosalie
as Queen of Romanza
1937
My Dear Miss Aldrich
as Mrs. Atherton
1937
Parnell
as Aunt Ben Wood
1937
Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet's Nurse
19366.3