Winifred Harris
Acting
Biography
Winifred Vera Emily Harris (17 March 1880 – 18 April 1972) was a British actress with a substantial career in America. She appeared in New York plays beginning in 1914 and acted in numerous plays up to 1934. She left Broadway plays for films though she had begun her film career during the silent era.
Born: March 15, 1880
Place of Birth: Kew, Surrey, England, UK
Known For
Casablanca
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Ninotchka
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
Waterloo Bridge
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front.
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Random Harvest
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Lloyd's of London
Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Claudia
Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceeds to wrest leadership of the gang away from its extremely resentful leader.
Gentleman Jim
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another's fiancé, and the youngest sister plays matchmaker.
Filmography
as Actress in 'Ninotchka' (archive footage) (uncredited)
as English Woman
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Maid
as Woman
as Lady Pennystone
as Mother on Stage
as Selma Delaney
as Woman at Party
as Dowager
as Agatha Van Weir
as Dowager
as Governor's Wife
as Mrs. Quinton
as Chaperone at Dance (uncredited)
as Woman with Fat Man at Ball (uncredited)
as Lady Carlton-Smith
as Wife of Admiral
as Mrs. Feiffer
as Mrs. Piske
as Englishwoman (uncredited)
as Ballet
as Wedding Guest
as Woman at Opera (uncredited)
as Casino Patron
as Gossiper #2 at Wedding Reception
as Red Cross Collector (uncredited)
as Chairlady (uncredited)
as Miss Tragler (uncredited)
as Mrs. Weymouth (uncredited)
as Lady
as Dowager at Funeral
as Miss Perry
as Mrs. Woodring
as Woman in Steambath
as Lady
as Dowager at Estate Dance (uncredited)
as First Matron (Sherman Cty.)
as Mrs. Lucy Davis
as Mrs. Holt
as English Lady Getting Visa (uncredited)
as Mrs. Maude Bennett
as Mrs. Reynolds
as Lady Ashford
as Mrs. North / Society Woman (uncredited)
as Mrs. Halsey (uncredited)
as Mrs. Bronson
as Mrs. Russell
as Party Guest
as Clara
as Wedding Guest
as Mrs. Ganswoort - Patient (uncredited)
as Mrs. Colfax-Baxter (uncredited)
as Countess Augustus Walewska
as Dowager (uncredited)
as Mrs. Van Tuyl
as Woman in Gold Room
as Miss Phillibrown's Companion on Train
as Mrs. Laurie
as Aunt Sarah
as Jerry's Mother
as Lady Witherspoon aka English Annie (uncredited)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
as Carrie Lenox
as Mrs. Chapman
as Mrs. Woodbridge
as Mrs. Quail
as Mrs. Harrison
as Mrs. Dorset
as Friend of Mrs. Van Kreel
as Mrs. Jennings
as Gerard's Mother
as Princess
as Mrs. Winslow