Maud Gill
Acting
Biography
Maud Gill was an English stage and screen character actress, usually cast in comic roles.
Born: January 1, 1885
Place of Birth: Bayswater, London, England, UK
Known For
The Farmer's Wife
Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
Look Up and Laugh
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.
Under the Greenwood Tree
A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Not For Sale
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Aren't We All?
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
A Sister to Assist 'Er
A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
Such Is the Law
British drama centered on a mother's desperate attempts to save her daughter's failing marriage as the film explores family loyalty, domestic conflict, and the social pressures surrounding divorce during the early 1930s.
Mischief
When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.
Filmography
as Miss Canvey
as Bit Part
as Louise Piper
as Aunt's Maid
as Miss Pilbeam
as Old Maid
as Thirza Tapper
as Miss Carter