Jessie Ralph
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: November 4, 1864
Day of Death: May 30, 1944 (80 years old)
Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ralph (born Jessie Ralph Chambers, November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures. She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, in a motion picture career that would eventually span 25 years, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were limited to matronly roles, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinema-goers of the time. Her best-known roles are as Greta Garbo's maid in Camille, as W.C. Fields' battle-axe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick, as Myrna Loy's supercilious aunt Katherine in After the Thin Man, and as Nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1941. Jessie Ralph retired from Hollywood in 1941, after her leg was amputated. She died four years later in her home town of Gloucester at the age of 79. She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Actor Applewoman
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Actor Aunt Katherine Forrest
After the Thin Man
Actor Nanine
Camille
Actor Lady Agatha Hathaway
The Unguarded Hour
Actor Grandmother
Bunker Bean
Actor Evelyn Bennett
Walking on Air
Actor Mrs. Brian
Yellow Dust
Actor Mrs. Hammle
The Garden Murder Case
Actor Mrs. Maisie Burley
San Francisco
1935
Actor Madame Magloire
Les Misérables
Actor Mrs. Barlow
Captain Blood
Actor Mrs. Phoebe Fisher
Enchanted April
Actor Charwoman
Metropolitan
Actor Nana
I Found Stella Parish
Actor Clara Peggotty
David Copperfield
Actor Countess de Charelle
Paris in Spring
Actor Gran Whiteoaks
Jalna
Actor Mrs. O.H.B. Gage, Kay's Grandmother
I Live My Life
Actor Lady Mullion
Vanessa: Her Love Story
Actor Midwife
Mark of the Vampire
