Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour; 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950.

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01/04/2020.
Mary Gordon (actress)  
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1, Profile : 
*Mary Gordon in The Irish in Us (1935)

Born Mary Gilmour. 16 May 1882, Burnbank, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died 23 August 1963 (aged 81), Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1925–1950
Notable work
Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' landlady on radio and film
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2. Introduction : 
 

Mary Gordon (born Mary Gilmour; 16 May 1882 – 23 August 1963) was a Scottish actress, long in the United States, who mainly played housekeepers and mothers, most notably the landlady Mrs. Hudson in the Sherlock Holmes series of movies of the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Her body of work included nearly 300 films between 1925 and 1950.
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3. Early life :

Gordon was born on 16 May 1882 in Glasgow, Scotland, the fifth of seven children of Mary and Robert Gilmour, a wire weaver. She worked as a dressmaker before finding work on the stage. Joining a company bound for an American tour, she came to the U.S. in her twenties, apparently making a few appearances on Broadway in small roles, but primarily touring in stock companies.
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4. Career :

With her mother and daughter, she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making Hangman's House in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous radio plays. She was a charter member of the Hollywood Canteen, entertaining servicemen throughout the Second World War. On the radio show Those We Love, she played the regular role of Mrs. Emmett.

She entered retirement just as television reshaped the entertainment industry, making only a single appearance in that medium.

She was active in the Daughters of Scotia auxiliary of the Order of Scottish Clans.

She lived out her final years in Pasadena, California with her daughter and grandson. She died at age 81 on 23 August 1963 in Pasadena after a long illness.
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5. Selected filmography :

The Dome Doctor (1925, Short) - Woman with Long Hair (uncredited)
The Home Maker (1925) - Mrs. Hennessy
Tessie (1925) - Aunt Maggie
One of the Bravest (1925) - Tenement Boy's Mother
The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925) - Mrs. Tifft
Lights of Old Broadway (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Black Paradise (1926) - Mrs. Murphy
The Dixie Flyer (1926) - Mrs. Clancy
Naughty Nanette (1927) - Mrs. Rooney
The Claw (1927) - Bit (uncredited)
Annie Laurie (1927) - First Midwife (uncredited)
Clancy's Kosher Wedding (1927) - Molly Clancy
Little Mickey Grogan (1927) - Kind Landlady (uncredited)
The Matinee Idol (1928) - Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Hangman's House (1928) - The Woman at Hogan's Hideout (uncredited)
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) - Scrubwoman (uncredited)
The Ol' Gray Hoss (1928, Short) - First taxi passenger
The Old Code (1928) - Mary MacGregr
The Black Watch (1929) - Sandy's Wife (uncredited)
Madame X (1929) - Nursemaid (uncredited)
Is Everybody Happy? (1929) - Neighbor (uncredited)
The Saturday Night Kid (1929) - Reducing customer (uncredited)
The Sky Hawk (1929) - Mary, the Maid (uncredited)
Dynamite (1929) - Neighbor at Store (uncredited)
Sunny Side Up (1929) - Grocery Shopper (uncredited)
Hell's Heroes (1929) - Choir Member (uncredited)
Seven Days' Leave (1930) - Bit (uncredited)
The Duke of Dublin (1930, Short)
His Honor the Mayor (1930, Short)
When the Wind Blows (1930, Short) - Chubby's Mother (uncredited)
Las Fantasmas (1930, Short) - Chubby's Mama
Roaring Ranch (1930) - Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)
Let Us Be Gay (1930) - Mrs. McIntyre (uncredited)
Our Blushing Brides (1930) - Mrs. Mannix - Tenement Woman (uncredited)
Manslaughter (1930) - Cook (uncredited)
Song o' My Heart (1930) - Irish Woman (uncredited)
Anybody's Woman (1930) - (uncredited)
Dance with Me (1930, Short)
Oh, For a Man! (1930) - Stage Door Admirer with Violets (uncredited)
Unfaithful (1931) - Bit (uncredited)
Subway Express (1931) - Mrs. Delaney
Always Goodbye (1931) - Mrs. MacPherson, Moviegoer (uncredited)
The Black Camel (1931) - Mrs. MacMasters
The Brat (1931) - Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)
Waterloo Bridge (1931) - Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)
24 Hours (1931) - Nurse (uncredited)
Possessed (1931) - Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)
Frankenstein (1931) - Mourner (uncredited)
Models and Wives (1931, Short)
A House Divided (1931) - Townswoman (uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House (1931) - Inmate (uncredited)
Delicious (1931) - Dancer (uncredited)
A Fool's Advice (1932) - Woman at Rally (uncredited)
Texas Cyclone (1932) - Katie
The Impatient Maiden (1932) - Irish Neighbor (uncredited)
The Expert (1932) - Neighbor (uncredited)
The Big Timer (1932) - 2nd Job Seeker (uncredited)
Dancers in the Dark (1932) - Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Devil's Lottery (1932) - Inquest Onlooker (uncredited)
Scandal for Sale (1932) - Hotel Resident (uncredited)
The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) - Court Matron (uncredited)
Radio Patrol (1932) - Landlady (uncredited)
Beauty Parlor (1932) - Landlady (uncredited)
Almost Married (1932) - Cook
70,000 Witnesses (1932) - Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Blonde Venus (1932) - Landlady (uncredited)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) - Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)
Wild Girl (1932) - Washerwoman (uncredited)
Call Her Savage (1932) - Lady in Tenement (uncredited)
Laughter in Hell (1933) - Townswoman (uncredited)
She Done Him Wrong (1933) - Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Her Splendid Folly (1933) - Mrs. Clancey
Ladies They Talk About (1933) - Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)
Men Must Fight (1933) - Pacifist Audience Member (uncredited)
Nature in the Wrong (1933, Short) - Mrs. Clancy (uncredited)
Sweepings (1933) - Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (uncredited)
The Whirlwind (1933) - Mrs. Curtis
The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) - Scrubwoman (uncredited)
Pilgrimage (1933) - Mrs. MacGregor (uncredited)
The Power and the Glory (1933) - Nurse (uncredited)
Doctor Bull (1933) - Townswoman at Meeting (uncredited)
Brief Moment (1933) - Cook (uncredited)
Footlight Parade (1933) - Wardrobe Woman on Bus (uncredited)
My Woman (1933) - Woman at Ironing Board (uncredited)
Meet the Baron (1933) - Washer Woman (uncredited)
Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933) - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
The Invisible Man (1933) - Screaming Woman (uncredited)
Design for Living (1933) - Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)
The World Changes (1933) - Lady at Party (uncredited)
Beloved (1934) - Mrs. O'Leary
The Woman Condemned (1934) - Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)
Voice in the Night (1934) - Woman on Phone in Montage (uncredited)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) - Boat Passenger (uncredited)
Change of Heart (1934) - Woman in Street (uncredited)
Murder at the Vanities (1934) - Assistant Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
The Loudspeaker (1934) - Landlady (uncredited)
The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934) - Washerwoman (uncredited)
A Man's Game (1934) - Landlady (uncredited)
The World Moves On (1934) - English Soldier's Mother (uncredited)
Baby Take a Bow (1934) - Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)
Cross Streets (1934) - Sonny's Mother
Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) - Newfoundlander (uncredited)
The Defense Rests (1934) - Scrub Woman (uncredited)
I Give My Love (1934) - Marie (uncredited)
Our Daily Bread (1934) - Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
One More River (1934) - Cook (uncredited)
The Man from Hell (1934) - Mrs. Frank McCarrol (uncredited)
Charlie Chan in London (1934) - Prison Visitor (uncredited)
Flirtation (1934) - Woman on a Window (uncredited)
The Little Minister (1934) - Nanny
I'm a Father (1935, Short) - Neighbor
Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) - Mrs. Leathwaite
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Hans' Wife
Vagabond Lady (1935) - Myrtle - Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
$10 Raise (1935) - Landlady (uncredited)
Ginger (1935) - Mrs. Monohan (uncredited)
The Irish in Us (1935) - Ma O'Hara
Bonnie Scotland (1935) - Mrs. Bickerdike
Waterfront Lady (1935) - Mrs. O'Flaherty
Metropolitan (1935) - Mrs. Tolentino (uncredited)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Peddler (uncredited)
The Lady Consents (1936) - Apple Lady (uncredited)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) - Farmer's Wife on Way to Church (uncredited)
Laughing Irish Eyes (1936) - Mrs. O'Keefe
Share the Wealth (1936, Short) - Ma MacClyde
Forgotten Faces (1936) - Mrs. O'Leary
Little Miss Nobody (1936) - Mrs. Biddle (uncredited)
The White Angel (1936) - Nursing Applicant (uncredited)
Mary of Scotland (1936) - Nurse
Yellowstone (1936) - Mrs. McDougall (uncredited)
Stage Struck (1936) - Mrs. Cassidy
The Plot Thickens (1936) - Woman with Bag (uncredited)
After the Thin Man (1936) - Rose (uncredited)
The Plough and the Stars (1936) - Woman at Barricades
Great Guy (1936) - Mrs. Ogilvie
The Great O'Malley (1937) - Mrs. O'Malley
Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) - Mrs. Watson - Landlady (uncredited)
Her Husband Lies (1937) - Mrs. Jenks (uncredited)
Racketeers in Exile (1937) - Irish Woman (uncredited)
Way Out West (1937) - Cook (uncredited)
That I May Live (1937) - Mrs. Healy (uncredited)
Pick A Star (1937) - Mrs. Watts - Undertaker's Wife (uncredited)
The Man in Blue (1937) - Woman (uncredited)
Married Before Breakfast (1937) - Mrs. Nevins (uncredited)
One Man Justice (1937) - Bridget
Meet the Boyfriend (1937) - Mrs. Grimes
The Toast of New York (1937)
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