- Date de naissance
- Date de décès23 août 1963 · Pasadena, Californie, États-Unis (non divulguée)
- Nom de naissanceMary Gilmour
- Mary Gordon est née le 16 mai 1882 au Royaume-Uni. Elle était actrice. Elle est connue pour La Fiancée de Frankenstein (1935), La femme aux araignées (1943) et Le chien des Baskerville (1939). Elle était mariée à William Gordon. Elle est morte le 23 août 1963 en Californie, États-Unis.
- ConjointWilliam Gordon(1908 - 1937) (son décès, 1 enfant)
- Often typecast as an Irish mother despite being a native of Scotland. This used to drive Irish film-goers crazy, who could easily detect the Scottish accent.
- Most memorable as Mrs Hudson, housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, opposite Basil Rathbone in the Sherlock Holmes films of the 30's and 40's. (She played the same role opposite Rathbone in the Holmes radio series.)
- Mary Gilmour married a commercial traveller, William Gordon, in 1908. They were estranged in 1914 and separated in 1917 but it unclear if they ever legally divorced. She kept his surname and never remarried. William Gordon committed suicide in 1937, having last worked as janitor.
- She appeared in two adaptations of the 1886 novel "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson: Le proscrit (1938) and Captif en mer (1948). She played Mrs. MacDonald in the former and a Scottish woman in the latter.
- Acted in theatres in Glasgow before going to America.
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