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
Boys' Night Out (1962)
as Ethel Williams
Goodbye Again (1961)
as Mrs. Van der Besh
My Man Godfrey (1957)
as Angelica Bullock
Gidget Goes to Rome (1963)
as Albertina Blythe
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
as Mrs. Greenleaf
Bon Voyage! (1962)
as Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
as Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
The Swan (1956)
as Princess Beatrix
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
as Self (archive footage)
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)
as Mrs. Chase
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
as Grandmother Greher
My Foolish Heart (1950)
as Martha Winters
Critic's Choice (1963)
as Charlotte Orr
Main Street to Broadway (1953)
as Self (uncredited)
A Private's Affair (1959)
as Elizabeth T. Chapman
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
as Mrs. Wright
I Married a Woman (1958)
as Mrs. Blake
The Ceremony of Innocence (1970)
as Queen Mother Alfreda
Meet Me Tonight (1952)
as Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Derelict (1930)
as Helen Lorber