Jessie Royce Landis
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Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Royce Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
North by Northwest (1959)
as Clara Thornhill
To Catch a Thief (1955)
as Jessie Stevens
Airport (1970)
as Harriet DuBarry Mossman
My Man Godfrey (1957)
as Angelica Bullock
Goodbye Again (1961)
as Mrs. Van der Besh
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Martha Winters
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
as Grandmother Greher
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Ethel Williams
I Married a Woman (1958)
as Mrs. Blake
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Mrs. Greenleaf
The Swan (1956)
as Princess Beatrix
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
as Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
as Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
as Mrs. Wright
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self (uncredited)
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Albertina Blythe
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
A Private's Affair (1959)
as Elizabeth T. Chapman
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
as Mrs. Chase
The Ceremony of Innocence (1970)
as Queen Mother Alfreda
Derelict (1930)
as Helen Lorber