From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMary 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. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), 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 Hangmans 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, California after a long illness.

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His Honor the Mayor

His Wife

Movie 1930

The Spider Woman

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1943

The Ghosts

Chubby's Mama

Movie 1930

Radio Patrol

Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1932

Dressed to Kill

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1946

Double Wedding

Mrs. Keough

Movie 1937

The Body Snatcher

Mary McBride (uncredited)

Movie 1945

It Started with Eve

Mrs. O'Toole (uncredited)

Movie 1941

The Whirlwind

Mrs. Curtis

Movie 1933

The Pearl of Death

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1944

Sealed Lips

Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother)

Movie 1942

The Woman in Green

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1945

Subway Express

Mrs. Delaney

Movie 1931

The Invisible Man Returns

Cookie (uncredited)

Movie 1940

Naughty Nanette

Mrs. Rooney

Movie 1927

Whispering Footsteps

Ma Murphy

Movie 1943

When the Wind Blows

Chubby's Mother (uncredited)

Movie 1930

The Woman Condemned

Crying Woman at Night Court (uncredited)

Movie 1934

The Black Camel

Mrs. MacMasters

Movie 1931

Shadows Over Chinatown

Mrs. Conover

Movie 1946

The Invisible Wall

Mrs. Bledsoe

Movie 1947

The Story That Couldn't Be Printed

Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Pot o' Gold

Mom McCorkle

Movie 1941

Law of the Badlands

Movie 1945

Secret Command

Mrs. McKenzie (uncredited)

Movie 1944

Laughing Irish Eyes

Mrs. O'Keefe

Movie 1936

The Impatient Maiden

Irish Neighbor (uncredited)

Movie 1932

The Power and the Glory

Nurse (uncredited)

Movie 1933

The Night of Nights

1nd Pencil Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Exposed

Housekeeper

Movie 1947

Angels' Alley

Mrs. Mamie Mahoney

Movie 1948

Nature in the Wrong

Mrs. Clancy

Movie 1933

Double Cross

Mrs. Murray

Movie 1941

Divorce

Ellen

Movie 1945

Wild Girl

Washerwoman (uncredited)

Movie 1932

The Saturday Night Kid

Reducing customer (uncredited)

Movie 1929

Is Everybody Happy?

Neighbor (uncredited)

Movie 1929

Cross Streets

Sonny's Mother

Movie 1934

Sweepings

Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (Uncredited)

Movie 1933

Hell's Heroes

Choir Member (uncredited)

Movie 1929

The Pride of the Yankees

Maid (uncredited)

Movie 1942

Riot Squad

Mrs. McGonigle

Movie 1941

The Last Ride

Mrs. Mary Kelly

Movie 1944

The Irish in Us

Ma O'Hara

Movie 1935

The Ol' Gray Hoss

First taxi passenger

Movie 1928

Friend Indeed

Housekeeper

Movie 1937

Nobody's Children

Mary

Movie 1940

Lady Behave!

Cook

Movie 1937

$10 Raise

Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Borrowed Hero

Mrs. Riley

Movie 1941

Deputy Marshal

Mrs. Lance

Movie 1949

Meet the Boy Friend

Mrs. Grimes

Movie 1937

Little Miss Nobody

Mrs. Biddle

Movie 1936

Two Tickets to London

Mrs. Tinkle

Movie 1943

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1939

Appointment for Love

Martha

Movie 1941

Kitty Foyle

Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

Movie 1940

Sarong Girl

Mattie

Movie 1943

The Jones Family in Hollywood

Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1939

The Brat

Angry Wife in Night Court (uncredited)

Movie 1931

City Streets

Mrs. Devlin

Movie 1938

Beauty Parlor

Landlady

Movie 1932

Ladies They Talk About

Prisoner in Visiting Room (uncredited)

Movie 1933

The Long Night

Old Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

Movie 1947

Men Must Fight

Pacifist Audience Member

Movie 1933

Blonde Venus

Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1932

Follow the Leader

Movie 1944

Shamrock Hill

Grandma Rogan

Movie 1949

Stage Struck

Mrs. Cassidy

Movie 1936

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1942

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1943

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1942

Sherlock Holmes in Washington

Mrs. Hudson

Movie 1943

You Can't Have Everything

YWCA Scrub Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1937

The Expert

Neighbor

Movie 1932

You're Only Young Once

Mary's Mother (uncredited)

Movie 1937

Blond Cheat

Maggie (uncredited)

Movie 1938

Tell No Tales

Mrs. Bryant (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Charlie Chan in London

Prison Visitor (uncredited)

Movie 1934

The Defense Rests

Scrub Woman

Movie 1934

A House Divided

Townswoman (uncredited)

Movie 1931

The White Angel

Nursing Applicant (uncredited)

Movie 1936

The Man from Hell

Mrs. Frank McCarrol

Movie 1934

The Hour Before the Dawn

Annie

Movie 1944

Wings of the Navy

Irene's Housekeeper

Movie 1939

Tail Spin

Mrs. Lee

Movie 1939

Broadway Serenade

Annie (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Her Husband Lies

Mrs. Jenks

Movie 1937

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Cleaning Woman

Movie 1933

The Marshal Of Mesa City

Mrs. Dudley

Movie 1939

The Escape

Neighbor

Movie 1939

Big Town Scandal

Mary - Cleaning Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1948

The Dark Horse

Mrs. Mahoney

Movie 1946

Sister Kenny

Mrs. Gordon (uncredited)

Movie 1946

The Great O'Malley

Mrs. O'Malley

Movie 1937

The Judge Steps Out

Annie (Scrub Woman) (uncredited)

Movie 1947

Here Comes Kelly

Mrs. Kelly

Movie 1943

Fly By Night

Ma Prescott

Movie 1942

Meet the Stewarts

Mrs. Stewart

Movie 1942

Hangman's House

The Woman at Hogan's Hideout

Movie 1928

Tucson

Housemother (uncredited)

Movie 1949

Design for Living

Theatre Chambermaid (uncredited)

Movie 1933

Sentimental Journey

Agnes, the Cook (uncredited)

Movie 1946

It Happened in Flatbush

Mrs. Collins

Movie 1942

Blue, White, and Perfect

Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1942

Great Guy

Mrs. Ogilvie

Movie 1936

I Take This Oath

Mrs. Eileen Hanagan

Movie 1940

Brother Orchid

Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (uncredited)

Movie 1940

Highway 13

Aunt Myrt Lacy

Movie 1948

Mutiny on the Bounty

Peddler (uncredited)

Movie 1935

24 Hours

Nurse

Movie 1931

Go West

Train Passenger

Movie 1940

Dancers in the Dark

Scrubwoman

Movie 1932

Roses Are Red

Cleaning Lady

Movie 1947

The Plough and the Stars

Woman at Barricades

Movie 1936

Bonnie Scotland

Mrs. Bickerdike

Movie 1935

Captain Eddie

Mrs. Westrom

Movie 1945

The Matinee Idol

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Movie 1928

The Loudspeaker

Landlady

Movie 1934

Code of the Streets

Mrs. Flaherty

Movie 1939

The Hoodlum Saint

Trina

Movie 1946

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Mrs. Leathwaite

Movie 1935

Waterfront Lady

Mrs. O'Flaherty

Movie 1935

Saps at Sea

Mrs. O'Riley

Movie 1940

My Son, My Son!

Mrs. Mulvaney

Movie 1940

No, No, Nanette

Gertrude, the Cook

Movie 1940

Racketeers of the Range

Mary-Benson's Housekeeper

Movie 1939

Gentleman Jim

Mrs. Casey (uncredited)

Movie 1942

The Last Alarm

Mrs. Hadley

Movie 1940

The Lady Consents

Apple Lady

Movie 1936

Million Dollar Kid

Mrs. McGinnis

Movie 1944

Women Without Names

Juror

Movie 1940

Murder at the Vanities

Movie 1934

The Invisible Man

Screaming Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1933

Meet the Baron

Washer Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1933

The Strange Mrs. Crane

Nora

Movie 1948

Skyscraper Souls

Charwoman

Movie 1932

Pilgrimage

Movie 1933

The Plot Thickens

Woman with Bag

Movie 1936

Ginger

Mrs. Monahan (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Captain Fury

Mrs. Bailey

Movie 1939

The Racket Man

Mom Benson

Movie 1944

Haunted Trails

Aunt Libby

Movie 1949

West of Wyoming

Nora Jones

Movie 1950

Clues to Adventure

Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie 1949

Texas Cyclone

Kate

Movie 1932

Song o' My Heart

Irish Woman

Movie 1930

Share the Wealth

Ma MacClyde

Movie 1936

Madame X

Nursemaid (uncredited)

Movie 1929

Powder Town

Mrs. Douglas

Movie 1942

Oh, for a Man!

Stage Door Admirer with Violets

Movie 1930

Unfinished Business

Miss Brady

Movie 1941

Half Way to Shanghai

Mrs. McIntyre

Movie 1942

Off the Record

Mrs. Finnegan (uncredited)

Movie 1939

Tear Gas Squad

Mrs. Sullivan

Movie 1940

Public Deb No. 1

Landlady

Movie 1940

Campus Confessions

Mrs. Twill

Movie 1938

Roaring Ranch

Mrs. O'Riley (uncredited)

Movie 1930

Strange Confession

Mrs. O'Connor

Movie 1945

70,000 Witnesses

Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Movie 1932

Secrets of Scotland Yard

Libby, the Housekeeper

Movie 1944

Pack Up Your Troubles

Mrs. MacTavish (uncredited)

Movie 1932

The Home Maker

Mrs. Hennessy

Movie 1925

Dr. Broadway

Broadway Carrie

Movie 1942

Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President

Mrs. O'Leary

Movie 1939

See My Lawyer

Mrs. Fillmore

Movie 1945

She Married a Cop

Ma Duffy

Movie 1939

Flight from Destiny

Martha

Movie 1941

In Fast Company

Mrs. Cassidy

Movie 1946

Baby Take a Bow

Mrs. O'Brien (Uncredited)

Movie 1934

Rulers of the Sea

Mrs. Ogilvie (Uncredited)

Movie 1939

Hollywood Canteen

Hostess (uncredited)

Movie 1944

Waterloo Bridge

Distraught Woman on Stairway (uncredited)

Movie 1931

One More River

Cook (Uncredited)

Movie 1934

Manhattan Melodrama

Boat Passenger (uncredited)

Movie 1934

After the Thin Man

Rose (uncredited)

Movie 1936

My Woman

Woman at Ironing Board (Uncredited)

Movie 1933

Kitty

Nanny

Movie 1945

Anybody's Woman

Maid

Movie 1930

The File on Thelma Jordon

Charwoman (Uncredited)

Movie 1949

Our Daily Bread

Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)

Movie 1934

She Done Him Wrong

Cleaning Lady (uncredited)

Movie 1933

Mr. Soft Touch

Slatternly Woman Tenant (Uncredited)

Movie 1949

Mannequin

Mrs. O'Rourke (Uncredited)

Movie 1938

Possessed

Woman at Political Rally (uncredited)

Movie 1931

Black Paradise

Mrs. Murphy

Movie 1926

Call Her Savage

Lady in Tenement (Uncredited)

Movie 1932

A Damsel in Distress

Cook (uncredited)

Movie 1937

Beloved

Mrs. O'Leary

Movie 1934

Kidnapped

Scottish Woman (uncredited)

Movie 1948

Queen of the Mob

Tenement Landlady

Movie 1940

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx

Mrs. Scott

Movie 1942

The Kiss Before the Mirror

Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Movie 1933

Forgotten Faces

Mrs. O'Leary

Movie 1936

Vagabond Lady

Myrtle, Scrubwoman (uncredited)

Movie 1935

Whom the Gods Destroy

Newfoundlander

Movie 1934

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The Cisco Kid

Mary O'Toole

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