Mona Washbourne

Born: 1903-11-27

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.


Placeholder

Casino Royale

as Tea Lady (uncredited)
Released: 1967-04-13

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James...

Movie page

My Fair Lady

as Mrs. Pearce
Released: 1964-10-21

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her...

Movie page

The Brides of Dracula

as Helga Lang
Released: 1960-07-07

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles...

Movie page

if....

as Matron
Released: 1968-12-19

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the...

Movie page

The Collector

as Aunt Annie
Released: 1965-06-17

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which...

Movie page

The Million Pound Note

as Mum with Pram
Released: 1954-01-07

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich...

Movie page

O Lucky Man!

as Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
Released: 1973-03-25

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it...

Movie page

Betrayed

as Waitress (uncredited)
Released: 1954-09-07

Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry...

Movie page

The Blue Bird

as Grandmother
Released: 1976-04-05

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the...

Movie page

Identikit

as Mrs. Helen Fiedke
Released: 1974-05-20

Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in Copenhagen to Rome,...

Movie page

Billy Liar

as Alice Fisher
Released: 1963-08-15

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an...

Movie page

Fragment of Fear

as Mrs. Gray
Released: 1970-09-03

A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

Movie page

The Winslow Boy

as Miss Barnes
Released: 1948-09-24

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his...

Movie page

Cast a Dark Shadow

as Monica Bare
Released: 1955-09-20

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his...

Movie page

The Third Day

as Catherine Parsons
Released: 1965-08-04

A man stumbles out of a car crash with no memory of what transpired. Everyone who he meets...

Movie page

Doctor in the House

as Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
Released: 1954-03-23

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

Movie page

Lost

as Librarian (Uncredited)
Released: 1956-01-31

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that...

Movie page

Double Confession

as Fussy Mother
Released: 1950-04-30

The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He...

Movie page

Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story

as Queen Mother
Released: 1982-09-17

Dramatization of the romance and July 1981 wedding of Great Britain's Prince Charles and Lady...

Movie page

Yield to the Night

as Mrs. Thomas, landlady
Released: 1956-06-19

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Movie page

Maytime in Mayfair

as Lady Levenson
Released: 1949-05-24

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class...

Movie page

The Bed Sitting Room

as Mother
Released: 1969-06-01

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is...

Movie page

The Games

as Mrs. Hayes
Released: 1970-08-07

From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain....

Movie page

A Cry from the Streets

as Mrs. Daniels
Released: 1958-08-12

Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann...

Movie page

The Old Curiosity Shop

as Mrs. Jarley
Released: 1975-11-07

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop...

Movie page

Loser Takes All

as Nurse (uncredited)
Released: 1956-09-09

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing...

Movie page

Adventure in the Hopfields

as Mrs. McBain
Released: 1954-06-06

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to...

Movie page

Two A Penny

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-31

Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose...

Movie page

It's Great to be Young!

as Miss Merrow, a School Mistress
Released: 1956-12-26

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When...

Movie page

Adam and Evelyne

as Mrs. Salop - Lady Gambler (uncredited)
Released: 1949-05-31

The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with...

Movie page

One Way Pendulum

as Aunt Mildred
Released: 1965-01-21

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room...

Movie page

Night Must Fall

as Mrs. Bramson
Released: 1964-03-18

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into...

Movie page

Johnny on the Run

as Mrs MacGregor
Released: 1953-06-01

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a...

Movie page

The Good Companions

as Mrs. Joe
Released: 1957-04-22

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Movie page

Stranger in Town

as Agnes Smith
Released: 1957-05-01

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory...

Movie page

Count Your Blessings

as Nanny
Released: 1959-04-23

Englishwoman Grace Allingham marries Frenchman Charles Edouard de Valhubert, but their marriage...

Movie page

The Gambler and the Lady

as Miss Minter
Released: 1952-12-26

A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he...

Movie page

Home

as Kathleen
Released: 1972-01-06

David Storey's adaptation of his award winning play for the BBC's Play for Today series.

Movie page

Pygmalion

as Mrs. Pearce
Released: 1981-12-27

Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.

Movie page

Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter

as Mrs. Brown
Released: 1968-01-22

Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from...

Movie page

What Became of Jack and Jill?

as Gran Alice Tallent
Released: 1972-06-16

Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her...

Movie page

The London Connection

as Aunt Lydia
Released: 1979-12-21

A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases,...

Movie page

Once Upon a Dream

as Vicar's Wife
Released: 1949-02-01

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it...

Movie page

Stevie

as Aunt
Released: 1978-09-15

For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively...

Movie page

Circus Friends

as Miss Linstead
Released: 1956-10-01

A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.

Movie page

Ferry Cross the Mersey

as Aunt Lil
Released: 1965-02-10

Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp...

Movie page

Son of a Stranger

as uncredited
Released: 1958-03-03

A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.

Movie page

December Flower

as Mary Grey
Released: 1984-12-23

Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's...

Movie page

Play for Today

as uncredited
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

TV Show page

Brideshead Revisited

as Nanny Hawkins
First aired: 1981-10-12

Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family...

TV Show page

Matinee Theater

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-10-31

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of...

TV Show page

Thérèse Raquin

as Madame Raquin
First aired: 1980-03-12

In order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but...

TV Show page

The Galton & Simpson Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1977-02-17

Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

TV Show page