Emma Dunn

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

152

Movies

Born: February 24, 1874 – December 14, 1966
From: Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English character actress on the stage and in motion pictures. Emma Dunn appeared onstage in her early teens, graduating to the London stage for several years and later became a noted Broadway actress. She appeared in the first American production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt (1906) with Richard Mansfield as Peer. She played Peer's mother, Ase, even though she was, in real life, 20 years younger than Mansfield. She appeared in three productions for theatre impresario David Belasco: The Warrens of Virginia (1907), The Easiest Way (1909) and The Governor's Lady (1912). In The Easiest Way, Dunn portrayed Annie, who was black, in blackface. In 1913 Dunn appeared in vaudeville. Dunn made her first film in 1914, a silent film of her 1910 stage success, Mother, directed by Maurice Tourneur. This was Tourneur's first American film. Dunn's second film was 1920's Old Lady 31, reprising the role she played in the 1916 Broadway play of the same name. One more silent film followed in 1924, Pied Piper Malone, before she made her talkie debut in Side Street, co-starring the Moore brothers, Matt, Owen and Tom as her sons. Dunn wrote two books on elocution and speech: Thought Quality in the Voice (1933) and You Can Do It (1947). Emma Dunn was born 26 February 1875, in Birkenhead, England, although she sometimes gave her year of birth as 1883. Dunn married Harry Beresford, an actor who was then known professionally as Harry J. Morgan, in Chicago on 4 October 1897. They divorced on 10 February 1909, in New York City. She was awarded sole custody of their young daughter, Dorothy. On 19 May 1909, Dunn married John W. Stokes (John W. S. Sullivan), an actor, playwright and theatrical manager. They subsequently adopted a second daughter, Helen. The couple divorced sometime between 1923 and Stokes' death in 1931. After suffering a heart attack some months before, Dunn died 14 December 1966, in Los Angeles, California, aged 91.

Works

98 films

The Great Dictator

19408.3

I Married a Witch

19426.9

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

19416.0

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

19367.5

Son of Frankenstein

19396.7

Dance, Girl, Dance

19406.4

Babes on Broadway

19416.6

Life with Father

19476.7

Waikiki Wedding

19375.9

The Emperor's Candlesticks

19374.9

The Talk of the Town

19427.3

Madame X

19376.1

Each Dawn I Die

19396.8

Letty Lynton

19327.0

The Bad Sister

19315.6

Broken Lullaby

19327.5

The Cowboy and the Lady

19386.3

Mother

1914

It Happened Tomorrow

19446.8

The Wet Parade

19326.2

Ladies Crave Excitement

19355.7

Dr. Kildare's Strange Case

19404.8

This Is the Life

19356.5

Manslaughter

19307.0

The Secret of Dr. Kildare

19396.1

Hard to Handle

19336.9

When You're in Love

19376.9

Mourning Becomes Electra

19476.1

Lord Jeff

19387.3

The Monster and the Girl

19415.8

The Woman in White

19485.7

You Can't Fool Your Wife

19405.5

Young Dr. Kildare

19386.7

Ladies in Retirement

19416.5

The Hoodlum Saint

19465.5

Calling Dr. Kildare

19396.6

Seven Keys to Baldpate

19356.9

Circus Girl

19376.5

Three Loves Has Nancy

19384.2

Little Big Shot

19357.3

Rise and Shine

19417.3

The Duke of West Point

19384.5

It's Tough to Be Famous

19326.4

Under Eighteen

19326.3

George White's 1935 Scandals

19357.0

Dr. Kildare Goes Home

19406.8

Grand Slam

19334.6

One Crowded Night

19405.5

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

19416.8

The Texan

19306.2

The Guilty Generation

19316.2

Hideaway

19376.0

Thanks for the Memory

19385.8

Another Face

19354.8

The Keeper of the Bees

19356.0

Hell's House

19325.3

The Penalty

19417.4

The Postman Didn't Ring

19427.0

This Modern Age

19315.9

The Glass Key

19356.5

Dr. Monica

19345.0

Cowboy from Brooklyn

19387.0

Blessed Event

19326.9

Half a Sinner

19405.3

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

19446.3

Varsity Show

19376.8

A Man of Sentiment

19337.0

Side Street

19295.9

The Mad Martindales

19427.5

Elmer, the Great

19335.1

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

19427.0

Dark Hazard

19345.7

Too Young to Marry

19318.0

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

19327.0

Private Jones

19339.0

My Buddy

19449.0

Scattergood Meets Broadway

19417.5

Little Orvie

19408.5

Scattergood Pulls the Strings

19417.0

Yesterday's Heroes

194010.0

Hero for a Day

19396.5

The Quitter

19349.0

Minesweeper

19435.2

The Harvester

19369.0

Flirtation

19345.6

The Llano Kid

19397.0

High School

19406.7

Scattergood Baines

19417.0

Bad Company

19315.0

Morals for Women

19314.1

Second Wife

19367.0

Pied Piper Malone

19246.5

Old Lady 31

19208.0

It's Great to Be Alive

19336.5

Are These Our Parents?

19447.0

Hoosier Holiday

19439.0

Compromised

19314.0

The Prodigal

19314.0