Alison Skipworth
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 23, 1863
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Wide Open Faces
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
Tillie and Gus
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. The only way to keep the franchise is to win a race against Pratt's boat.
Doubting Thomas
A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.
Devotion
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Here Is My Heart
A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
Hitch Hike Lady
Brit Amelia Blake travels to America to join her son Alfred. Fate forces her to hitchhike to California, a perilous journey that she shares with kind young Judy Martin. When Judy and another fellow traveler discover the unfortunate truth about Alfred, they struggle to spare Amelia's feelings.
Dangerous
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play.
If I Had a Million
An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
The Casino Murder Case
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
Shanghai
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
Filmography
as Josephine Bonney
as Auntie Martha
as Nora
as Agatha Stanton / Old Lady Ironsides
as Suzanne
as Aunt Frederika
as Lillie Eckleberger aka Lillie the Toad
as Mrs. Beall
as Madame Barabbas
as Lady Gertrude
as Amelia Blake
as Mrs. Williams
as Aunt Jane
as Mrs. Pampinelli
as Miss Crawley
as Mrs. Martin
as Senora Perez
as Priscilla Kinkaid Llewellyn
as Countess Rostova
as Mrs. Yolanda Magruder
as Aunt Nellie
as The Countess
as Mother Bright
as Miss Gertrude Vanderdoe
as Mrs. K. Rumford
as Duchess
as Tillie Winterbottom
as Lady Barrett-Smythe
as Mme Rasmussen
as Beulah Bonnell
as Mme. Vivienne Pompadour
as Grand Duchess Emilie
as Emily La Rue
as Miss Mabel Jellyman
as Countess von Claudwig / Martha Hicks
as Mrs. Blake
as Mrs. Hawkins
as Mrs. Matilda Coggins
as Mrs. Wey-Smith
as Countess von Martini
as Mrs. Olwell
as Marchesa Bianca San Giovanni
as Laura
as La Gourdan
as Mrs. Cliveden-Banks
as Lady Kitty Melrose
as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney
as Mrs. de Mailly