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With the body of a scarecrow, the contemptuous stare of a house detective, and the voice of an air-raid siren, Irish-born Una O'Connor was one of filmdom's most unforgettable character actresses. Beginning her career with Dublin's Abbey Players and extending her activities to the London's West End and Broadway, O'Connor was cast as the socially conscious housekeeper in Noel Coward's 1932 London production Cavalcade; it was this role which brought her to Hollywood in 1933. She rapidly became a favorite of two prominent directors, James Whale and John Ford, neither of whom were inclined to ask her to tone down her film performances. For Whale, O'Connor screeched her way through two major 1930s horror films, The Invisible Man (1933) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935); for Ford, O'Connor played the grieving mother of martyred IRA activist Wallace Ford in The Informer (1935) and Mrs. Grogan in The Plough and the Stars (1936). For those detractors who believe that O'Connor never gave a subtle, controlled performance in her life, refer to Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946), wherein Ms. O'Connor spoke not a single word as the glowering mother of upper-class twit Richard Haydn. Fourteen years after portraying Charles Laughton's overprotective mother in This Land Is Mine (1943), Una O'Connor once more appeared opposite Laughton in 1957's Witness for the Prosecution, playing a hard-of-hearing housekeeper; it was her last screen performance.
- Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Music:

1. Always in My Heart (1942) (performer: "Happy Birthday to You")
2. We Are Not Alone (1939) ("God Save the King!")

Movies:

1. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) .... Janet
2. Ha da venÃ¬... don Calogero! (1952) .... Perpetua
3. Adventures of Don Juan (1948) .... Duenna
4. Fighting Father Dunne (1948) .... Miss O'Rourke
5. Ivy (1947) .... Mrs. Thrawn
6. The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) .... Nora
7. Banjo (1947) .... Harriet
8. Lost Honeymoon (1947) .... Mrs. Tubbs
9. Unexpected Guest (1947) .... Mathilda Hackett
10. The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) .... Miss Beedle
11. Child of Divorce (1946) .... Nora, the Maid
12. Of Human Bondage (1946) .... Mrs. Foreman
13. Cluny Brown (1946) .... Mrs. Wilson
14. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) .... Mrs. Breen
15. Christmas in Connecticut (1945) .... Norah
16. My Pal Wolf (1944) .... Mrs. Blevin
17. The Canterville Ghost (1944) .... Mrs. Umney
18. Government Girl (1944) .... Mrs. Harris
19. Holy Matrimony (1943) .... Sarah Leek
20. This Land Is Mine (1943) .... Mrs. Emma Lory
21. Forever and a Day (1943) .... Mrs. Caroline Ismay
22. Random Harvest (1942) .... Tobacconist
23. My Favorite Spy (1942) .... Cora, Kyser's maid
24. Always in My Heart (1942) .... Angie, Scotts' Housekeeper
25. How Green Was My Valley (1941) (scenes deleted) ....
26. Three Girls About Town (1941) .... Maggie O'Callahan, scrubwoman
27. Kisses for Breakfast (1941) .... Ellie
28. Her First Beau (1941) .... Effie
29. The Strawberry Blonde (1941) .... Mrs. Timothy Mulcahey
30. He Stayed for Breakfast (1940) .... Doreta
31. The Sea Hawk (1940) .... Miss Latham
32. Lillian Russell (1940) .... Marie
33. It All Came True (1940) .... Maggie Ryan
34. His Brother's Keeper (1940) .... Eva
35. All Women Have Secrets (1939) .... Mary
36. We Are Not Alone (1939) .... Susan O'Connor, Newcome's Maid
37. In Search of Valour (1939) (TV) .... Stasia Claremorris
38. The Moon in the Yellow River (1938) (TV) .... Aunt Columba
39. Return of the Frog (1938) .... Mum Oaks
40. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) .... Bess
41. Call It a Day (1937) .... Mrs. Milson, the Housekeeper
42. Personal Property (1937) .... Clara, Crystal's Maid
43. The Plough and the Stars (1936) .... Maggie Gogan
44. Lloyd's of London (1936) .... Widow Blake
45. Suzy (1936) .... Mrs. Bradley, Suzy's Landlady
46. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) .... Mary
47. Rose-Marie (1936) .... Anna
48. The Perfect Gentleman (1935) .... Harriet Chatteris
49. Thunder in the Night (1935) .... Julie
50. The Informer (1935) .... Mrs. McPhillip
51. Bride of Frankenstein (1935) .... Minnie
52. The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger (1935) .... Mrs. Gummidge
53. Father Brown, Detective (1934) .... Mrs. Boggs
54. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) .... Wilson
55. Chained (1934) .... Amy, Diane's Maid
56. Stingaree (1934) .... Annie
57. All Men Are Enemies (1934) .... Annie
58. Orient Express (1934) .... Mrs. Peters
59. The Poor Rich (1934) .... Lady Fetherstone
60. The Invisible Man (1933) .... Jenny Hall
61. Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) .... Mrs. Arnell Simmons
62. Horseplay (1933) .... Clementia
63. Timbuctoo (1933) .... Myrtle
64. Pleasure Cruise (1933) .... Mrs. Signus
65. Cavalcade (1933) .... Ellen Bridges
66. To Oblige a Lady (1931) (uncredited)
67. Murder! (1930) .... Mrs. Grogram
68. Dark Red Roses (1929) .... Mrs. Weeks

Television:

1. "Kraft Television Theatre" (3 episodes, 1953-1954)
2. "Kraft Television Theatre" (5 episodes, 1949-1954)
3. "Armstrong Circle Theatre" (1 episode, 1953)
4. "Short Short Dramas" (1 episode, 1953)
5. "Tales of Tomorrow" .... Edythe (2 episodes, 1952)
6. "Broadway Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1952)
7. "Studio One" (6 episodes, 1949-1952)
8. "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1 episode, 1951)
9. "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1 episode, 1951)
10. "Lux Video Theatre" .... Mrs. Gorlick (1 episode, 1950)
11. "Lights Out" (1 episode, 1950)
12. "The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre" (1 episode, 1950)