Emma Dunn

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

152

Movies

Born: February 24, 1874 – December 14, 1966
From: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures. Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville. Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons. Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947). Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883. Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931. After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.

Works

98 films

The Great Dictator

19408.3

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

19367.5

I Married a Witch

19426.9

Dance, Girl, Dance

19406.4

Son of Frankenstein

19396.7

Waikiki Wedding

19375.9

The Talk of the Town

19427.3

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

Mother

1914

The Bad Sister

19315.6

Life with Father

19476.7

Babes on Broadway

19416.6

Madame X

19376.1

Each Dawn I Die

19396.8

The Cowboy and the Lady

19386.3

The Wet Parade

19326.2

Letty Lynton

19327.0

Broken Lullaby

19327.5

The Woman in White

19485.7

Manslaughter

19307.0

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

When You're in Love

19376.9

Mourning Becomes Electra

19476.1

Lord Jeff

19387.3

The Monster and the Girl

19415.8

Three Loves Has Nancy

19384.2

Under Eighteen

19326.3

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

19406.8

You Can't Fool Your Wife

19405.5

The Duke of West Point

19384.5

Ladies Crave Excitement

19355.7

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

19396.1

One Crowded Night

19405.5

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

19404.8

Hard to Handle

19336.9

Little Big Shot

19357.3

Young Dr. Kildare

19386.7

The Glass Key

19356.5

Ladies in Retirement

19416.5

This Is the Life

19356.5

George White's 1935 Scandals

19357.0

The Quitter

19349.0

The Texan

19306.2

Dark Hazard

19345.7

Another Face

19354.8

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Thanks for the Memory

19385.8

A Man of Sentiment

19337.0

Half a Sinner

19405.3

Circus Girl

19376.5

Seven Keys to Baldpate

19356.9

The Keeper of the Bees

19356.0

Blessed Event

19326.9

Grand Slam

19334.6

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

19327.0

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

19416.8

Calling Dr. Kildare

19396.6

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

19417.0

Little Orvie

19408.5

High School

19406.7

The Penalty

19417.4

My Buddy

19449.0

Side Street

19295.9

This Modern Age

19315.9

Too Young to Marry

19318.0

The Guilty Generation

19316.2

Varsity Show

19376.8

Dr. Monica

19345.0

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19446.3

Minesweeper

19435.2

Scattergood Baines

19417.0

It's Great to Be Alive

19336.5

Cowboy from Brooklyn

19387.0

It's Tough to Be Famous

19326.4

The Mad Martindales

19427.5

Hero for a Day

19396.5

Rise and Shine

19417.3

Scattergood Meets Broadway

19417.5

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

19427.0

Elmer, the Great

19335.1

Private Jones

19339.0

The Llano Kid

19397.0

Hell's House

19325.3

Pied Piper Malone

19246.5

Yesterday's Heroes

194010.0

The Harvester

19369.0

Old Lady 31

19208.0

Hideaway

19376.0

Second Wife

19367.0

Bad Company

19315.0

Hoosier Holiday

19439.0

Are These Our Parents?

19447.0

Compromised

19314.0

Flirtation

19345.6

Morals for Women

19314.1

The Prodigal

19314.0