Emily Fitzroy

Emily Fitzroy
Emily Fitzroy
	Fitzroy in Show Boat (1929)
Born	24 May 1860
Died	3 March 1954 (aged 93)
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1913–1944

Emily Fitzroy (24 May 1860 – 3 March 1954) was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham.^{[citation needed]}

She made her film debut in 1915. Her debut in sound films came in Show Boat (1929).^[1] She retired in 1944. Her last film was The White Cliffs of Dover (1944).^[1]

Her Broadway credits include What the Public Wants (1922), I.O.U. (1918), Rich Man, Poor Man (1916), Lady Patricia (1912), and Just to Get Married (1912).^[2]

Death

Fitzroy died of stroke on March 3, 1954, aged 93 years.

Selected filmography

Sins of Men (1916) - Minor Role
East Lynne (1916) - Cornelia
The Return of Eve (1916) - Mrs. Tupper-Bellamy
A Broadway Saint (1919) - Martha Galt
The Climbers (1919) - Mrs. Hunter
Deadline at Eleven (1920) - Mrs. Martha Stevens
The Man Who Lost Himself (1920) - Richester's Aunt
Way Down East (1920) - Maria Poole - Landlady
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson (1920) - Mrs. Chardley
The New York Idea (1920) - Grace Phillimore
Out of the Chorus (1921) - Mrs. Van Beekman
Straight Is the Way (1921) - Mrs. Crabtree
Wife Against Wife (1921) - Mrs. Dole
Jane Eyre (1921) - Grace Poole (a servant)
The Splendid Lie (1922) - Mrs. Wolcott Delafield
Find the Woman (1922) - Mrs. Napoli
Fascination (1922) - The Marquesa de Lisa (her aunt)
No Trespassing (1922) - Mrs. James Colton
Fury (1923) - Matilda Brent
Driven (1923) - Mrs. Tolliver
The Purple Highway (1923) - Mrs. Carney
Strangers of the Night (1923) - Mrs. Pengard
Jealous Husbands (1923) - Amaryllis
The Whispered Name (1924) - Amanda Stone
Secrets (1924) - Mrs. Marlowe
A Girl of the Limberlost (1924) - Kate Comstock
Untamed Youth (1924) - Emily Ardis
The Man Who Came Back (1924) - Aunt Isabel
The Red Lily (1924) - Mama Bouchard
His Hour (1924) - Princess Ardacheff
Her Night of Romance (1924) - Nurse (scenes deleted)
Love's Wilderness (1924) - Matilda Heath
The Hooded Falcon (1924)
The Spaniard (1925) - Maria
The Golden Bed (1925) - Minor Role (uncredited)
Learning to Love (1925) - Aunt Virginia
The Lady (1925) - Madame Blanche
Outwitted (1925) - Meg
The Denial (1925) - Rena - Mother in Flashback
Zander the Great (1925) - The Matron
Are Parents People? (1925) - Margaret
Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925) - Mrs. Pippy
Thunder Mountain (1925) - Ma MacBirney
The Winding Stair (1925) - Madame Muller
Bobbed Hair (1925) - Aunt Celimena Moore
Lazybones (1925) - Mrs. Fanning
The Red Kimono (1925) - The Housekeeper
What Happened to Jones (1926) - Mrs. Goodly
The Bat (1926) - Miss Cornelia Van Gorder
High Steppers (1926) - Mrs. Iffield
Hard Boiled (1926) - Abigail Gregg
No Babies Wanted (1926) - Landlady, 'Old Ironsides'
Don Juan (1926) - The Dowager (uncredited)
Marriage License? (1926) - Lady Heriot
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) - Vicomtesse de Lavedan
The Cheerful Fraud (1926) - Mrs. Bytheway
One Increasing Purpose (1927) - Mrs. Andiron
The Sea Tiger (1927) - Mrs. Enos
Orchids and Ermine (1927) - Mrs. Blom
Married Alive (1927) - Mrs. Maggs Duxbury
Mockery (1927) - Mrs. Gaidaroff
Foreign Devils (1927) - Mrs. Conger
Love Me and the World Is Mine (1927) - The Porter's Wife
Once and Forever (1927) - Katherine
Love (1927) - Grand Duchess
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) - Lady Beekman
The Trail of '98 (1928) - Mrs. Bulkey
The Case of Lena Smith (1929) - Frau Hofrat
Show Boat (1929) - Parthenia Ann Hawks
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) - Marquesa
The Man from Blankley's (1930) - Mrs. Tidmarsh
Dumbbells in Ermine (1930) - Gossiper (uncredited)
The Flirting Widow (1930) - Aunt Ida
Song o' My Heart (1930) - Aunt Elizabeth
She's My Weakness (1930) - Mrs. Oberlander
New Moon (1930) - Countess Anastasia Strogoff
Unfaithful (1931) - Auntie Janie
It's a Wise Child (1931) - Jane Appleby
Misbehaving Ladies (1931) - Meta Oliver
Detective Lloyd (1932, Serial) - The Manor Ghost
Aren't We All? (1932) - Angela
Lucky Ladies (1932) - Cleo Honeycutt
High Society (1932) - Mrs. Strangeways
Timbuctoo (1933) - Aunt Augusta
Don Quixote (1933) - Sancho Panza's wife
Her Imaginary Lover (1933) - Aunt Lydia Raleigh
Dick Turpin (1934) - Minor Role
The Man with Two Faces (1934) - Hattie
Two Heads on a Pillow (1934) - Mrs. Van Suydam
The Captain Hates the Sea (1934) - Mrs. Victoria Griswold
China Seas (1935) - Mrs. Higgins
She Couldn't Take It (1935) - Party Guest (uncredited)
Border Flight (1936) - Old Maid (uncredited)
The Bold Caballero (1936) - Lady Isabella's Chaperone
Nothing Sacred (1937) - Guest at Banquet
The Frontiersmen (1938) - School Teacher aka Snooksie
Vigil in the Night (1940) - Sister Gilson
The Flame of New Orleans (1941) - Cousin
Two-Faced Woman (1941) - Rhumba Dancer
Forever and a Day (1943) - Ms. Fulcher
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) - Spinster in Boardinghouse

References

^ ^a ^b Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9780786427468. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
^ "Emily Fitzroy". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

External links

Works by or about Emily Fitzroy at the Internet Archive
Emily Fitzroy at IMDb
Emily Fitzroy at the Internet Broadway Database
Fitzroy as a young woman at age 30 on the November 15, 1890 cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine

[acc-1] Nissen, Axel (2007). Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties. McFarland. pp. 184–185. ISBN 9780786427468. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

[2] "Emily Fitzroy". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2018.

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Emily Fitzroy

Death

Selected filmography

References

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