Jessie Ralph
Age: N/A | From: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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Birthday:
Aliases: Jessie Ralph Chambers , Jessie Rolph , Jessie Ralph Patton
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
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Movie Involvements: 29
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ralph (born Jessie Ralph Chambers, November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures. She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, in a motion picture career that would eventually span 25 years, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were limited to matronly roles, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinema-goers of the time. Her best-known roles are as Greta Garbo's maid in Camille, as W.C. Fields' battle-axe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick, as Myrna Loy's supercilious aunt Katherine in After the Thin Man, and as Nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1941. Jessie Ralph retired from Hollywood in 1941, after her leg was amputated. She died four years later in her home town of Gloucester at the age of 79. She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Most Famous Work
Captain Blood
(1935) Mrs. Barlow
Drums Along the Mohawk
(1939) Mrs. Weaver
Camille
(1936) Nanine
Mark of the Vampire
(1935) Midwife
Little Lord Fauntleroy
(1936) Applewoman
San Francisco
(1936) Mrs. Maisie Burley
The Good Earth
(1937) Cuckoo
Les Misérables
(1935) Madame MagloireActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Duchess of Beltravers | |
| Mrs. McGuinness | ||
| 1940 | Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch | |
| Grandma Brokaw | ||
| Mrs. Van Dyne | ||
| Mama McGann | ||
| Aunt Martha Parker | ||
| Fairy Berylune | ||
| 1939 | Mrs. Weaver | |
| Veronica Hudson | ||
| Aunt Minetta | ||
| Mrs. De Witt | ||
| Aunt Tibbie | ||
| Miss Tobias | ||
| 1938 | Honorine | |
| Aunt Lucy | ||
| Sheriff Janet Winfield | ||
| 1937 | Mrs. Kensington-Bly | |
| Self | ||
| Cuckoo | ||
| The Duchess of Ebley | ||
| 1936 | Nanine | |
| Aunt Katherine Forrest | ||
| Evelyn Bennett | ||
| Grandmother | ||
| Mrs. Maisie Burley | ||
| Lady Agatha Hathaway | ||
| Mrs. Brian | ||
| Applewoman | ||
| Mrs. Hammle | ||
| 1935 | Mrs. Barlow | |
| Nana | ||
| Charwoman | ||
| Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother | ||
| Gran Whiteoaks | ||
| Countess de Charelle | ||
| Midwife | ||
| Madame Magloire | ||
| Lady Mullion | ||
| Mrs. Phoebe Fisher | ||
| Clara Peggotty | ||
| 1934 | Mrs. Blake | |
| Matrona Pavlovna | ||
| Beatrice | ||
| Angelina | ||
| Mrs. Helene Smith | ||
| Nora | ||
| Zoe | ||
| 1933 | Terry | |
| Princess de Longville | ||
| Sarah Crosby (uncredited) | ||
| Aunt Minnie | ||
| 1919 | N/A | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
