Maude Eburne
Actor
Biography
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Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, 10 November 1875 – 15 October 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles. Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. Her early theater work was in Ontario and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect."
She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.
Filmography
Ruggles of Red Gap
as 'Ma' Pettingill 1935
The Vampire Bat
as Aunt Gussie Schnappmann 1933
The Strawberry Blonde
as Mrs. Mulcahey's Friend (uncredited) 1941
Vivacious Lady
as Wife of Man Shaving on Train (uncredited) 1938
The Suspect
as Mrs. Packer 1945
Blonde Crazy
as Mrs. Snyder 1931
Ladies They Talk About
as Aunt Maggie 1933
The Bat Whispers
as Lizzie Allen 1930
The Boogie Man Will Get You
as Amelia Jones 1942
Among the Living
as Mrs. Pickens 1941
The Princess and the Pirate
as Landlady of the 'Boar's Head Inn' 1944
Here Comes the Navy
as Droopy's Mother 1934
Union Depot
as Passenger at Information Desk (uncredited) 1932
You Belong to Me
as Ella 1941
Li'l Abner
as Granny Scraggs 1940
Under Eighteen
as Mrs. McCarthy 1932