Emily Fitzroy

British actress (1860–1954)

Emily Fitzroy
Fitzroy in Show Boat (1929)
Born	(1860-05-24)24 May 1860
Died	3 March 1954(1954-03-03) (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]

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

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Fitzroy as a young woman at age 30 on the November 15, 1890 cover of The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News magazine