Anecdotes

Plump Irish character actress of stage, screen and radio. On stage from 1910, Broadway from 1933, films from 1943. Usually seen in homely/maternal roles.

She played Jack Warner's wife in 3 of the 4 films they made together - Captive Hear (1946), Train of Events (1949), and The Blue Lamp(1950). The 4th film was Those People Next Door (1953).

She was the second of Leslie Henson's three wives.

Gladys Henson is erroneously identified as mother of Joseph (Joe ) Henson, the son of her first husband, Leslie Henson. She did not have children with either of her husbands. The mother of Joe Henson was Harriet Collins, an actress, who married Leslie Henson in 1944, some years after their sons birth. They were also parents of actor Nicky Henson, younger full blood brother to Joe.