Mona Washbourne
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Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.
Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist.
In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968).
She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978).
In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease.
Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940.
She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
Fotos
Películas (60)
December Flower
1984 · Mary Grey
Where's the Key?
1983 · Mother
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
1982 · Queen Mother
Pygmalion
1981 · Mrs. Pearce
The London Connection
1979 · Aunt Lydia
Stevie
1978 · Aunt
The Blue Bird
1976 · Grandmother
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975 · Mrs. Jarley
Identikit
1974 · Mrs. Helen Fiedke
O Lucky Man!
1973 · Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
I Spy a Stranger
1972 · Mrs. Hudson
What Became of Jack and Jill?
1972 · Gran Alice Tallent
Home
1972 · Kathleen
Poor Mother
1970 · Sister
Fragment of Fear
1970 · Mrs. Gray
The Games
1970 · Mrs. Hayes
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970 · Mrs. Jarley
The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · Mother
if....
1968 · Matron
Number Ten
1968 · Julia Pryton
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968 · Mrs. Brown
Two a Penny
1967
Casino Royale
1967 · Tea Lady (uncredited)
The Third Day
1965 · Catherine Parsons
The Collector
1965 · Aunt Annie
Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965 · Aunt Lil
One Way Pendulum
1965 · Aunt Mildred
My Fair Lady
1964 · Mrs. Pearce
Night Must Fall
1964 · Mrs. Bramson
Billy Liar
1963 · Alice Fisher
Operation Stogie
1962 · Lady Cormorant
No Love for Johnnie
1961 · Well-wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
The Brides of Dracula
1960 · Helga Lang
Count Your Blessings
1959 · Nanny
A Cry from the Streets
1958 · Mrs. Daniels
Son of a Stranger
1958
Stranger in Town
1957 · Agnes Smith
The Good Companions
1957 · Mrs. Joe
It's Great to be Young!
1956 · Miss Merrow, a School Mistress
Circus Friends
1956 · Miss Linstead
Loser Takes All
1956 · Nurse (uncredited)
Yield to the Night
1956 · Mrs. Thomas, landlady
Lost
1956 · Librarian
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955 · Monica Bare
John and Julie
1955 · Miss Rendlesham
To Dorothy, a Son
1954 · Midwife Appleby
Betrayed
1954 · Waitress (uncredited)
Adventure in the Hopfields
1954 · Mrs. McBain
Monsieur Ripois
1954 · Landlady
Doctor in the House
1954 · Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
The Million Pound Note
1954 · Mum with Pram
Johnny on the Run
1953 · Mrs MacGregor
The Gambler and the Lady
1952 · Miss Minter
Probation Officer
1950 · Mrs. Mead
Dark Interval
1950
Double Confession
1950 · Fussy Mother
Adam and Evelyne
1949 · Mrs. Salop, Lady Gambler (uncredited)
Maytime in Mayfair
1949 · Lady Levenson
Once Upon a Dream
1949 · Vicar's Wife
The Winslow Boy
1948 · Miss Barnes
Series (16)
Celebrity Playhouse
1981 · Mrs Pearce
Brideshead Revisited
1981 · Nanny Hawkins
Shillingbury Tales
1981 · Marjorie Cavendish
Therese Raquin
1980 · Madame Raquin
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1977 · Ethel Duckworth
Centre Play
1973 · Hilda
Six Days of Justice
1972 · Chairman of the Bench
Play for Today
1970
Wicked Women
1970 · Mama
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Mrs. Fumble
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Julia Pyrton, Mary
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Mrs. Hudson
Knight Errant Limited
1959 · Miss Mathilda Lawson-Hardy
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Harriet
Matinee Theater
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Aunt Lydia