Acting

Constance Collier

Born January 22, 1878 · Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK

Died April 25, 1955 · aged 77

Constance Collier (born Laura Constance Hardie; 22 January 1878 – 25 April 1955) was an English stage and film actress and acting coach. She made her stage debut at the age of three, when she played Fairy Peaseblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and later appeared in several Shakespearean stage plays. Her brief visit to New York in the 1910s yielded her work in a few silent films. When she was di…

Known For

Rope

MovieThrillerCrime

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

MovieRomanceFantasy

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

Bleak House

Bleak House · 1920

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson · 1935

MovieDramaFantasy

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

Stage Door

Stage Door · 1937

MovieComedyDrama

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Whirlpool

Whirlpool · 1950

MovieThrillerCrime

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy · 1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

MovieDramaFamily

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

Filmography

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Rope

MovieThrillerCrime

Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Mrs. Anita Atwater

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir · 1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

MovieRomanceFantasy

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

Dialogue Coach

Bleak House

Bleak House · 1920

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

Lady Dedlock

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages · 1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

MovieDramaHistory

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Extra (uncredited)

Peter Ibbetson

Peter Ibbetson · 1935

MovieDramaFantasy

When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project with the Duke and Duchess of Towers. When Peter and the duchess become great friends, she reveals that she is Mary — but the duke soon suspects his wife of infidelity and challenges Peter to a duel, threatening the pair's second chance.

Adaptation

Stage Door

Stage Door · 1937

MovieComedyDrama

A spirited heiress wishing to break into theatre on her own merit arrives at a boardinghouse where aspiring young actresses and showgirls are brought together through their cynicism and disappointments.

Miss Luther

Whirlpool

Whirlpool · 1950

MovieThrillerCrime

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Tina Cosgrove

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy · 1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

MovieDramaFamily

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

Lady Constantia Lorridaile

The Dark Corner

The Dark Corner · 1946

The Dark Corner

MovieCrimeDrama

Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary, Kathleen Stewart, he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers.

Mrs. Kingsley

Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie · 1937

Wee Willie Winkie

MovieAdventureFamily

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.

Mrs. Allardyce

Girls' Dormitory

Girls' Dormitory · 1936

Girls' Dormitory

MovieDramaRomance

When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

Professor Augusta Wimmer

Zaza

MovieDramaRomance

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

Nathalie

Susan and God

Susan and God · 1940

MovieComedyDrama

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

Lady Millicent Wigstaff

Downhill

Downhill · 1927

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

Original Story

The Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline · 1947

The Perils of Pauline

MovieComedyMusic

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take

Julia Gibbs

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband · 1947

An Ideal Husband

MovieComedyDrama

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.

Lady Markby

The Tongues of Men

The Tongues of Men · 1916

The Tongues of Men

Rev. Dr. Penfield Sturgis, of fashionable St. Martins-in-the-Lane, finds himself face to face with Jane Bartlett, a grand opera prima donna whose opera he has denounced on grounds of morality, and who comes to his very vestry room to make him "eat his sermon word for word."

Jane Bartlett

A Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress · 1937

A Damsel in Distress

MovieMusicComedy

Lady Alyce Marshmorton must marry soon, and the staff of Tottney Castle have laid bets on who she'll choose, with young Albert wagering on 'Mr. X'. After Alyce goes to London to meet a beau she is restricted to the castle to curb her scandalous behavior. Albert then summons Jerry to Alyce's aid in order to 'protect his investment'.

Lady Caroline

Monsieur Beaucaire

Monsieur Beaucaire · 1946

Monsieur Beaucaire

MovieComedyRomance

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

The Queen of France

Thunder in the City

Thunder in the City · 1937

Thunder in the City

MovieComedyDrama

A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

Duchess Of Glenavon

Kitty

MovieDramaRomance

Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later decides to use her for his benefit.

Dialogue Coach

The Rat

The Rat · 1937

MovieDramaCrime

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.

Theatre Play

The Code of Marcia Gray

The Code of Marcia Gray · 1916

The Code of Marcia Gray

Early film by Frank Lloyd

Marcia Gray

Professional Soldier

Professional Soldier · 1935

Professional Soldier

MovieActionAdventure

Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.

Lady Augusta