Maude Eburne

Born: 1875-11-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect." She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.


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To Be or Not to Be

as Anna
Released: 1942-03-05

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's...

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The Vampire Bat

as Aunt Gussie Schnappmann
Released: 1933-01-21

A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.

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The Leavenworth Case

as Phoebe Leavenworth
Released: 1936-01-20

Director Lewis D. Collins' 1936 whodunit is about the investigation into the death of an elderly...

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Vivacious Lady

as Nagging Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited)
Released: 1938-05-13

College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a...

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Ruggles of Red Gap

as 'Ma' Pettingill
Released: 1935-03-08

In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a...

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Man from Oklahoma

as Grandma Lane
Released: 1945-07-01

The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a...

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Li'l Abner

as Granny Scraggs
Released: 1940-11-09

Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to...

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The Princess and the Pirate

as Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn'
Released: 1944-11-17

Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the...

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Convict's Code

as Mrs. Magruder
Released: 1939-01-18

On parole after three years in prison, a football player encounters the man who framed him.

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The Plunderers

as Old Dame at Wedding
Released: 1948-10-30

Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses...

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Meet Dr. Christian

as Mrs. Hastings
Released: 1939-11-17

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town...

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The Town Went Wild

as Judge Bingle
Released: 1944-12-15

Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were...

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Reveille with Beverly

as Maggie (uncredited)
Released: 1943-02-04

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the...

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Almost Married

as Mrs. Clayton
Released: 1942-05-22

To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.

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The Suspect

as Mrs. Packer
Released: 1945-01-31

Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly...

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Doughnuts and Society

as Belle Dugan
Released: 1936-03-27

Kate Flannagan and Belle Dugan operate a downtown coffee shop and, while dispensing their...

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Polly of the Circus

as Mrs. Jennings
Released: 1932-02-27

When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a...

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The Courageous Dr. Christian

as Mrs. Hastings
Released: 1940-04-04

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the...

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Ladies They Talk About

as Aunt Maggie
Released: 1933-02-04

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

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The Boogie Man Will Get You

as Amelia Jones
Released: 1942-10-22

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants...

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Remedy for Riches

as Mrs. Hastings
Released: 1940-11-29

A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry...

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Happiness C.O.D.

as Aunt Addie
Released: 1935-10-14

A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get...

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Among the Living

as Mrs. Pickens
Released: 1941-12-12

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble...

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Up in Arms

as Woman on Cable Car (uncredited)
Released: 1944-02-17

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his...

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Poppy

as Sarah Tucker
Released: 1936-06-17

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the...

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My Lips Betray

as Mamma Watscheck
Released: 1933-11-04

In a make-believe, mittleuropean kingdom, a vivacious but dim country girl sings in a beer...

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Hitchhike to Happiness

as Mrs. Randall
Released: 1945-07-16

An aspiring playwright gets a job in a New York City restaurant favored by celebrities in hopes...

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I'm from Arkansas

as Matilda Jenkins
Released: 1944-10-31

A town in Arkansas makes national headlines when a local sow gives birth to 18 piglets.

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Blonde Crazy

as Mrs. Snyder
Released: 1931-09-16

Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

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Dawn on the Great Divide

as Sarah Harkins
Released: 1942-12-18

Buck Roberts is leading a wagon train of railroad supplies and Jim Corkle and his henchman Loder...

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The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Landlady (uncredited)
Released: 1939-11-22

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's...

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Maybe It's Love

as Landlady
Released: 1935-01-12

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple...

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The Woman from Monte Carlo

as Dowager Party Guest
Released: 1932-01-09

On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night....

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The Passionate Plumber

as Aunt Charlotte
Released: 1932-02-06

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony...

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Here Comes the Navy

as Droopy's Mother
Released: 1934-07-21

A cocky guy joins the Navy for the wrong reason but finds romance and twice is cited for heroism.

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Mountain Rhythm

as Ma Hutchins
Released: 1939-06-08

Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will...

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Divorce In The Family

as Martha Jenkins
Released: 1932-08-27

A child struggles to come to terms with his parents' divorce. Director Charles Reisner's 1932...

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Local Boy Makes Good

as Maid
Released: 1931-11-27

John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist...

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Lazy River

as Miss Minnie Lescalle
Released: 1934-03-16

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

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West Point Widow

as Mrs. Willits
Released: 1941-06-20

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant,...

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Henry Aldrich, Editor

as Mrs. Norris
Released: 1942-09-01

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of...

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Rosie the Riveter

as Granma Quill
Released: 1944-04-08

In this romantic wartime comedy, four female defense plant workers share a house with four male...

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Indiscreet

as Aunt Kate
Released: 1931-04-25

A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her...

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This Reckless Age

as Rhoda
Released: 1932-01-09

Donald Ingals and his wife Eunice are conventional and loving parents who are shocked when their...

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Undercover Agent

as Mrs. Minnow
Released: 1939-04-19

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

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Live, Love and Learn

as Mrs. Crump
Released: 1937-10-29

A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get...

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Return of the Terror

as Mrs. Elvery
Released: 1934-07-07

"The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has...

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Dr. Christian Meets the Women

as Mrs. Hastings
Released: 1940-08-05

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's...

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Lonely Wives

as Mrs. Mantel
Released: 1931-02-15

A highly respectable lawyer becomes a sexual animal after working hours; His live-in...

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Union Depot

as Passenger at Information Desk (uncredited)
Released: 1932-01-14

Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a...

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Bowery to Broadway

as Mame Alda
Released: 1944-11-03

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them...

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The Man in Possession

as Esther
Released: 1931-07-04

A deeply in debt heiress tries to land a rich man while a collector from the Sheriff's office...

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The Bat Whispers

as Lizzie Allen
Released: 1930-11-13

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon...

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Henry and Dizzy

as Martha Bradley
Released: 1942-06-05

After accidentally sinking a borrowed motorboat, teenager Henry Aldrich scrambles to raise the...

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Sabotage

as Mrs. Hopkins
Released: 1939-10-13

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...

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The Trial of Vivienne Ware

as Mrs. Elizabeth Hardy
Released: 1932-05-01

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

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Colorado

as Etta Mae
Released: 1940-09-15

Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut....

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Champagne Waltz

as Mrs. Scribner
Released: 1937-02-05

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of...

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Paradise Express

as Maggie Casey
Released: 1937-02-24

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by...

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When's Your Birthday?

as Mrs. Basscombe
Released: 1937-02-19

Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict...

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There's One Born Every Minute

as Agatha
Released: 1942-06-26

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the...

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The First Year

as Emily Livingston
Released: 1932-07-30

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being...

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Arson, Inc.

as Grandma
Released: 1949-06-24

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the...

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Havana Widows

as Mrs. Ryan, the Landlady
Released: 1933-11-18

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

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Riders of the Black Hills

as Mrs. Peggy Garth
Released: 1938-06-15

Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid...

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Fight for Your Lady

as Nadya
Released: 1937-11-05

Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a...

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The Golden Fleecing

as Landlady (uncredited)
Released: 1940-08-16

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

as Maggie Devlin
Released: 1936-10-06

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon,...

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Robbers' Roost

as Aunt Ellen
Released: 1932-12-30

Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans...

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Hollywood Cowboy

as Violet Butler
Released: 1937-05-28

Just after Kramer goes to Wyoming to start his protection racket, cowboy actor Jeff Carson...

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The Guardsman

as "Mama"
Released: 1931-10-20

An acclaimed actor and his equally acclaimed actress wife, who have been married for less than a...

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Lady Bodyguard

as Mother Hodges
Released: 1943-01-02

A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore...

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They Meet Again

as Mrs. Hastings
Released: 1941-07-11

Dr. Christian takes time out from his appointed rounds to help clear a bank teller of...

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The Border Legion

as Hurricane Hattie McGuire
Released: 1940-12-05

Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by...

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Glamour Boy

as Borax Betty
Released: 1941-12-05

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He...

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You Belong to Me

as Ella
Released: 1941-10-22

A playboy marries a woman doctor then grows jealous of her male patients.

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Man Hunt

as Mariah Hoggins
Released: 1936-01-29

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

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Fog

as Mrs. Jackson
Released: 1933-11-11

The murders are committed in swift succession on board a liner crossing the Atlantic in a dense...

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The Chance of a Lifetime

as Edna Counihan (Uncredited)
Released: 1943-10-26

A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a...

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Bought!

as Mrs. Chauncey
Released: 1931-08-22

Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance...

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Under Eighteen

as Mrs. McCarthy
Released: 1932-01-02

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during...

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My Wife's Relatives

as Widow Ella Jones
Released: 1939-05-20

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is...

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Party Wire

as Clara West
Released: 1935-04-27

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her...

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Big Executive

as Coroner's Wife
Released: 1933-10-19

Big Executive

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Shanghai Madness

as Mrs. Glissen
Released: 1933-08-03

In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang...

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Panama Flo

as Sadie
Released: 1932-01-19

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle...

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The Lawton Story

as Henrietta
Released: 1949-03-31

Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by...

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Slippy McGee

as Mrs. Dexter
Released: 1948-01-15

A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.

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Stranger in Town

as Mrs. Petrick
Released: 1931-08-06

Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic...

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The Covered Trailer

as Widow Ella Jones
Released: 1939-11-10

The Higgins family prepares for a long-awaited cruise to Rio, but while father Joe bids farewell...

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Don't Bet on Blondes

as Little Ellen Purdy
Released: 1935-07-13

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His...

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Exile Express

as Mrs. Smith
Released: 1939-05-27

A San Francisco reporter and a lab assistant foil spies on an East-bound deportation train.

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