Acting

Elspeth Dudgeon

Born December 4, 1871 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Died December 11, 1955 · aged 84

Elspeth Dudgeon was an English stage actress who appeared in a number of uncredited and small supporting roles in Hollywood films beginning from 1932.

Known For

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein · 1935

Bride of Frankenstein

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

MovieThrillerMystery

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Reckless Age

Reckless Age · 1944

MovieAdventureComedy

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice · 1940

Pride and Prejudice

MovieDramaRomance

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.

Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty · 1944

MovieMusicComedy

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold · 1949

MovieActionWestern

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.

Camille

Camille · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Filmography

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein · 1935

Bride of Frankenstein

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

Gypsy's Mother (uncredited)

Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent · 1940

Foreign Correspondent

MovieThrillerMystery

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Woman (uncredited)

Reckless Age

Reckless Age · 1944

MovieAdventureComedy

Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.

Miss Ferris

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice · 1940

Pride and Prejudice

MovieDramaRomance

In early 19th century England, Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters vie for the affections of rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, who have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to eldest daughter Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with second-eldest Elizabeth.

Mrs. King

Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty · 1944

MovieMusicComedy

After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

Miss Travers (uncredited)

Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager · 1942

MovieRomanceDrama

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and from an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Aunt Hester (uncredited)

Lust for Gold

Lust for Gold · 1949

MovieActionWestern

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.

Martha Bannister

Camille

Camille · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins a sumptuous romance with Armand Duval.

Fireplace Attendant (uncredited)

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux · 1947

Monsieur Verdoux

MovieComedyCrime

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Old Woman (uncredited)

Midnight

Midnight · 1939

MovieComedyRomance

An unemployed American showgirl poses as Hungarian royalty to infiltrate Parisian high society.

Stephanie's Party Guest with Dog (uncredited)

The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House · 1932

The Old Dark House

MovieDramaHorror

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

Sir Roderick Femm

The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper · 1937

The Prince and the Pauper

MovieAdventureDrama

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

Grandmother Canty

A Successful Calamity

A Successful Calamity · 1932

A Successful Calamity

MovieComedyDrama

Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children, Peggy and Eddie. To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers, while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.

Musicale Guest (uncredited)

Vanessa: Her Love Story

Vanessa: Her Love Story · 1935

Vanessa: Her Love Story

The Victorian wife of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier sent to Egypt.

Vera Trent

Show Boat

Show Boat · 1936

MovieMusicRomance

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair · 1932

MovieDramaRomance

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society.

Sir Pitt's Housekeeper

The Great Sinner

The Great Sinner · 1949

The Great Sinner

MovieDramaRomance

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

Fearful Old Gambling Woman (uncredited)

A Woman Rebels

A Woman Rebels · 1936

MovieDramaRomance

A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.

Lord Gaythorne's Maid (uncredited)

Waterloo Bridge

Waterloo Bridge · 1931

Waterloo Bridge

MovieDramaRomance

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.

Elegant Dowager (uncredited)

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle · 1939

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

MovieMusicRomance

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they're performing in Paris, an agent sees them rehearse and starts them on their brilliant career as the world's foremost ballroom dancers. However, at the height of their fame, World War I begins.

Lady Bolton (uncredited)

Stand Up and Cheer!

Stand Up and Cheer! · 1934

Stand Up and Cheer!

MovieComedyMusic

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon runs afoul of political lobbyists out to destroy his department.

Reformer

The White Angel

The White Angel · 1936

The White Angel

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

Lady Disapproving of Florence #2 (uncredited)

Stage Mother

Stage Mother · 1933

MovieDramaRomance

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even blackmailing a stage manager so that Shirley can take a more prestigious gig. But Kitty goes too far when she breaks up her daughter's budding relationship with sweet artist Warren Foster. Heartbroken, Shirley sets off on a series of disastrous but profitable relationships.

Music Store Customer (uncredited)

Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr. Kildare · 1939

Calling Dr. Kildare

Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?

Old Lady in Hall (uncredited)