Sign in JoinCreate account

Acting

Jane Darwell

Acting · Born 1879-10-15 · Palmyra, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jane Darwell was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jane Darwell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

IMDb

Credits · 176

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2

1986 · (archive footage)

1964 · Bird Woman

1963 · Mrs. Leah Mulligan

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962 · Mamie Carnation

1959 · Grandma Wilson

The Last Hurrah

1957 · Mrs. Knowles

Sincerely, Willis Wade

1956 · Mrs. Jacoby

Girls in Prison

1956 · Matron Jamieson

There's Always Tomorrow

1956 · Mme Rogers

Matinee Theater

Screen Director's Playhouse

A Life at Stake

1955 · Landlady

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

1954 · B. Cool

1953 · Mrs. Connelley

Letter to Loretta

1953 · Irene Townsend

Affair with a Stranger

1953 · Ma Stanton

The Sun Shines Bright

1953 · Aurora Ratchitt

It Happens Every Thursday

1953 · Mrs. Spatch

The Ford Television Theatre

1952 · Mama Mumby

Cavalcade of America

We're Not Married!

1952 · Mrs. Bush

Journey Into Light

1951 · Mrs. Belden

The Lemon Drop Kid

1951 · 'Nellie Thursday' Regan

Father's Wild Game

1950 · Minerva Bobbin

The Second Face

1950 · Mrs. Lockridge

1950 · Mrs. Wurdeman

Redwood Forest Trail

1950 · Hattie Hickory

1950 · Molly Hale

1950 · Isolation Matron

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady

1950 · Mrs. Murphy

1950 · Sister Ledyard

1949 · Aunt Jane

1948 · Miss Florie

1948 · Anna - Maid

Train to Alcatraz

Train to Alcatraz

1948 · Aunt Ella

The Red Stallion

1947 · Aggie Curtis

Keeper of the Bees

1947 · Mrs. Ferris

My Darling Clementine

1946 · Kate Nelson

Three Wise Fools

1946 · Sister Mary Brigid

1946 · Aunt Hattie

Captain Tugboat Annie

1945 · Tugboat Annie

I Live in Grosvenor Square

1945 · Mrs. Patterson

She's a Sweetheart

Music in Manhattan

1944 · Mrs. Pearson

The Impatient Years

1944 · Minister's wife

1944 · Mrs. Connors

1944 · Mrs. Henderson

Government Girl

1943 · Miss Trask (uncredited)

1943 · The Mother

Stage Door Canteen

1943 · Jane Darwell

Gildersleeve's Bad Day

1943 · Aunt Emma Forrester

The Ox-Bow Incident

1943 · Ma Grier

The Great Gildersleeve

1942 · Aunt Emma Forrester

Highways by Night

1942 · Grandma Fogarty

The Battle of Midway

1942 · Narrator (voice)

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

1942 · Mariah Clemm

1942 · Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

It Happened in Flatbush

1942 · Mrs. Maguire

On the Sunny Side

1942 · Grandmother Nora Campbell

All Through the Night

1942 · Mrs. Donahue

All That Money Can Buy

1941 · Ma Stone

1941 · Miss Adams

Thieves Fall Out

1941 · Grandma Allen

1940 · Mrs. Bettina Huguenine

Youth Will Be Served

1940 · Supervisor Stormer

1940 · Eliza Kent

1940 · Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · Ma Joad

Miracle on Main Street

1939 · Mrs. Herman

Gone with the Wind

1939 · Mrs. Merriwether

20,000 Men a Year

1939 · Mrs. Allen

1939 · Aunt Phoebe Smiley

Grand Jury Secrets

1939 · Mrs. Keefe

Unexpected Father

1939 · Mrs. Callahan

1939 · Aunt Mary Perkins

1939 · Mrs. Samuels

1938 · Mrs. Graham

1938 · Nurse Waldron

Time Out for Murder

1938 · Polly, Helen's supervisor

Little Miss Broadway

1938 · Miss Hutchins

Three Blind Mice

1938 · Mrs. Kilian

Battle of Broadway

1938 · Mrs. Rogers

The Jury's Secret

1938 · Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

Change of Heart

1938 · Mrs. Thompson

Dangerously Yours

1937 · Aunt Cynthia Barton

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 · Mrs. Krueger

The Singing Marine

1937 · Ma Marine

1937 · Mrs. Marlowe

Fifty Roads to Town

1937 · Mrs. Henry

The Great Hospital Mystery

1937 · Nurse Sarah Keats

1937 · Archive Footage

Nancy Steele Is Missing!

1937 · Mrs. Mary Flaherty

1937 · Mrs. Flaherty

Laughing at Trouble

1936 · Glory Bradford

1936 · Mrs. Harold

Star for a Night

1936 · Mrs. Martha Lind

Poor Little Rich Girl

1936 · Woodward

1936 · Maud Mahoney

Little Miss Nobody

1936 · Eva Bradley

1936 · Mrs. Frisby

Captain January

1936 · Eliza Croft

1936 · Mrs. Ellis

The Country Doctor

1936 · Mrs. Graham

We're Only Human

1935 · Mrs. Walsh

1935 · Grandma

1935 · Mrs. Louise Keats

1935 · Mrs. Denham

1935 · Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

Life Begins at Forty

1935 · Ida Harris

McFadden´s Flats

1935 · Nora McFadden

One More Spring

1935 · Mary Sweeney

The Gilded Lily

1935 · Woman in Crowd at Southampton (uncredited)

1934 · Mrs. Higgins

Gentlemen Are Born

1934 · Landlady

The White Parade

Happiness Ahead

1934 · Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

Tomorrow's Youth

1934 · Mary O'Brien

1934 · Frederick's Mother

Million Dollar Ransom

1934 · Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

Embarrassing Moments

1934 · Mrs. Stuckelberger

1934 · Ma Taylor

One Night of Love

1934 · Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

Most Precious Thing in Life

1934 · Mrs. O'Day

Let's Talk It Over

1934 · Mrs. O'Keefe

Change of Heart

1934 · Mrs. McGowan

The Scarlet Empress

1934 · Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

Finishing School

1934 · Maude (uncredited)

1934 · Baroness (uncredited)

Once to Every Woman

1934 · Mrs. Wood (uncredited)

Journal of a Crime

1934 · Dinner Guest (uncredited)

1934 · Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

Fashions of 1934

1934 · Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

Cross Country Cruise

1934 · Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

Design for Living

1933 · Curtis' Housekeeper

He Couldn't Take It

1933 · Mrs. Case

King for a Night

1933 · Mrs. Williams

1933 · Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

1933 · Mrs. Lane

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men

1933 · Mrs. Spence - Landlady (uncredited)

1933 · Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

One Sunday Afternoon

1933 · Mrs. Lind

1933 · Mrs. Marble

1933 · Mrs. Webster -- Head Prison Matron (uncredited)

1933 · Nurse Brown (uncredited)

Jennie Gerhardt

1933 · Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

The Girl in 419

1933 · Nurse Esmond

1933 · Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

Murders in the Zoo

1933 · Banquet Guest (uncredited)

Child of Manhattan

1933 · Mrs. McGonagle

The Past of Mary Holmes

1933 · Ma Kearny

Women Won't Tell

1932 · Mrs. Walter Robinson

1932 · Mrs. Brock

Washington Merry-Go-Round

1932 · Alice's Aunt

1932 · Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

1932 · School Teacher (Uncredited)

Ladies of the Big House

1931 · Mrs. Turner

Huckleberry Finn

1931 · Widow Douglas

1930 · Widow Douglas

Little Church Around the Corner

1923 · Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

The Restless Sex

1920 · Housekeeper (uncredited)

1915 · Madam (uncredited)

The Rose of the Rancho

1914 · Señora Castro Kenton, Juanita's Mother

1914 · Mrs. Brainerd

Brewster's Millions

1914 · Mrs. Dan De Mille

Jane Darwell · MediaMark