Amy Veness

Born: 1876-02-25

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amy Veness (26 February 1876 – 22 September 1960) was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amy Veness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Oliver Twist

as Mrs. Bedwin
Released: 1948-06-28

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

as Mrs. McPhee (Hornblower's Housekeeper)
Released: 1951-04-10

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during...

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The Man in Grey

as Mrs. Armstrong (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-06

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a...

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Angels One Five

as Aunt Tabitha
Released: 1952-03-19

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a...

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Doctor in the House

as Grandma Cooper (uncredited)
Released: 1954-03-23

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between...

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This Happy Breed

as Mrs. Flint
Released: 1944-05-28

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house,...

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Millions Like Us

as Mrs. Blythe
Released: 1943-06-01

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the...

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The Master of Bankdam

as Mrs. Pilling
Released: 1947-08-20

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to...

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Madonna of the Seven Moons

as Tessa
Released: 1945-01-22

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking...

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My Brother's Keeper

as Mrs. Gully
Released: 1948-08-19

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive...

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The Magic Box

as Grandmother in Wedding Group
Released: 1952-01-01

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As...

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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

as Grannie
Released: 1949-05-23

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic...

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Chance of a Lifetime

as Lady Davis
Released: 1950-04-24

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through,...

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The Huggetts Abroad

as Grandma Huggett
Released: 1949-03-21

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get...

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Blanche Fury

as Mrs. Winterbourne
Released: 1948-02-19

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury...

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The Astonished Heart

as Alice Smith
Released: 1950-03-17

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret...

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Portrait of Clare

as Lady In The Train
Released: 1950-11-13

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic...

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Fanny by Gaslight

as Mrs. Heaviside
Released: 1944-05-08

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her...

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Drake of England

as Mother Moore
Released: 1935-05-16

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth...

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Good-Time Girl

as Mrs. Chalk
Released: 1948-04-28

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home...

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Murder on the Second Floor

as Mrs Armitage
Released: 1932-03-04

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

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Windbag the Sailor

as Emma Harbottle
Released: 1936-12-01

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a...

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Red Wagon

as Petal Schultze
Released: 1933-12-06

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an...

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Tom Brown's Schooldays

as Mrs. Wixie
Released: 1951-04-17

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil...

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The Beloved Vagabond

as Cafe Owner
Released: 1936-08-24

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

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This England

as Jenny
Released: 1941-07-22

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well...

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Lorna Doone

as Betty Muxworthy
Released: 1934-12-09

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal...

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The Show Goes On

as Mrs. Scowcroft, Sally's Mother
Released: 1937-03-31

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing...

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They Were Sisters

as Mrs Pursley
Released: 1945-07-02

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the...

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The World Owes Me a Living

as Mrs. Waterman
Released: 1945-01-01

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside...

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The Brat

as Mrs. Forrester
Released: 1919-09-01

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who...

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Here Come the Huggetts

as Grandma Huggett
Released: 1948-12-02

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for...

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The Mill on the Floss

as Mrs. Deane
Released: 1937-01-09

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over...

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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On

as Emily Smithers
Released: 1931-12-26

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for...

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Play Up the Band

as Lady Heckdyke
Released: 1935-11-01

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

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The Old Curiosity Shop

as Mrs. Jarley
Released: 1934-12-14

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf...

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Bond Street

as Seamstress
Released: 1948-05-12

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond...

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Vote for Huggett

as Grandma
Released: 1949-02-01

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front...

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Please Help Emily

as Mrs. Lethbridge
Released: 1917-11-19

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Self Made Lady

as Old Sookey
Released: 1932-03-01

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a...

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Flying Fifty-Five

as Aunt Eliza
Released: 1939-05-01

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just...

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The Love Nest

as Ma
Released: 1933-07-01

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up...

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Hawleys of High Street

as Mrs. Hawley
Released: 1933-06-07

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

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Let Me Explain, Dear

as Aunt Fanny
Released: 1933-06-03

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he...

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Joy Ride

as Lady Clara Mutch-Twistleton
Released: 1935-12-16

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!

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Don't Take It to Heart

as Cook
Released: 1944-11-13

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A...

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A Southern Maid

as Donna Rosa
Released: 1934-03-01

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had...

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Hobson's Choice

as Mrs. Hepworth
Released: 1931-10-02

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

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Money for Nothing

as Emma Bolt
Released: 1932-01-20

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay...

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Crime Over London

as uncredited
Released: 1936-10-21

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where...

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Aren't Men Beasts!

as Mrs. Flower
Released: 1937-01-19

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a...

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Aren't Men Beasts!

as Harry Harper
Released: 1937-01-19

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a...

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My Wife

as Mrs. Hammond
Released: 1918-02-18

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