Quiz

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: Il vascello maledetto (1938) and La volpe rossa (1948). She played Mrs. MacDonald in the former and a Scottish woman in the latter.

Acted in theatres in Glasgow before going to America.