Mary Gordon (născută Mary Gilmour; ) a fost o actriță scoțiană, care a trăit mult timp în Statele Unite unde a jucat mai ales roluri de gospodină și mamă. Este cel mai bine cunoscută ca doamna Hudson în seria de filme Sherlock Holmes din anii 1940, cu Basil Rathbone ca Sherlock Holmes și Nigel Bruce ca Doctorul Watson. Mary Gordon a jucat în aproape 300 de filme între 1925 și 1950.
Tinerețe Gordon s-a născut la 16 mai 1882 în Glasgow, Scoția, ca al cincilea dintre cei șapte copii ai Mariei și Robert Gilmour, un țesător de sârmă.Scottish Census for 1901, v Roll CSSCT1891_283 A lucrat în confecții înainte de a găsi de lucru pe scenă. S-a alăturat unei companii pentru un turneu american, astfel a ajuns în SUA când a avut treizeci de ani, aparent a avut câteva apariții pe Broadway în roluri mici.
Carieră Odată cu mama și fiica ei, a ajuns la Los Angeles la mijlocul anilor 1920 și a început să joace variații ale rolurilor pe care le va interpreta toată cariera. S-a împrietenit cu John Ford în timp ce a jucat pentru Hangman’s House în 1928 și a făcut încă șapte filme cu el. În 1939, a avut rolul cel mai bine cunoscut al ei, ca proprietara clădirii în care locuiește chiriașul Sherlock Holmes, dna. Hudson și a jucat rolul în zece filme și numeroase piese de radio. În cadrul emisiunii de radio Those We Love -- Cei pe care îi iubim, ea a avut rolul doamnei Emmett.
S-a pensionat atunci când televiziunea a remodelat industria divertismentului, având o singură apariție în televiziune.
A fost activă în frăția Fiicele Scoției, o auxiliară a Ordinului Clanurilor Scoțiene.
Și-a trăit ultimii ani în Pasadena, California, împreună cu fiica și nepotul său. A murit la 81 de ani, la 23 august 1963, la Pasadena, după o lungă boală.Pasadena Star-News, 26 August 1963
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The Dome Doctor (1925, Short) - Woman with Long Hair (ă) The Home Maker (1925) - Mrs. Hennessy Tessie (1925) - Aunt Maggie One of the Bravest (1925) - Tenement Boy's Mother The People vs. Nancy Preston (1925) - Mrs. Tifft Lights of Old Broadway (1925) - Minor Role (ă) Black Paradise (1926) - Mrs. Murphy The Dixie Flyer (1926) - Mrs. Clancy Naughty Nanette (1927) - Mrs. Rooney The Claw (1927) - Bit (ă) Annie Laurie (1927) - First Midwife (ă) Clancy's Kosher Wedding (1927) - Molly Clancy Little Mickey Grogan (1927) - Kind Landlady (ă) The Matinee Idol (1928) - Woman in Audience (ă) Hangman's House (1928) - The Woman at Hogan's Hideout (ă) Our Dancing Daughters (1928) - Scrubwoman (ă) The Ol' Gray Hoss (1928, Short) - First taxi passenger The Old Code (1928) - Mary MacGregr The Black Watch (1929) - Sandy's Wife (ă) Madame X (1929) - Nursemaid (ă) Is Everybody Happy? (1929) - Neighbor (ă) The Saturday Night Kid (1929) - Reducing customer (ă) The Sky Hawk (1929) - Mary, the Maid (ă) Dynamite (1929) - Neighbor at Store (ă) Sunny Side Up (1929) - Grocery Shopper (ă) Hell's Heroes (1929) - Choir Member (ă) Seven Days' Leave (1930) - Bit (ă) The Duke of Dublin (1930, Short) His Honor the Mayor (1930, Short) When the Wind Blows (1930, Short) - Chubby's Mother (ă) Las Fantasmas (1930, Short) - Chubby's Mama Roaring Ranch (1930) - Mrs. O'Riley (ă) Let Us Be Gay (1930) - Mrs. McIntyre (ă) Our Blushing Brides (1930) - Mrs. Mannix - Tenement Woman (ă) Manslaughter (1930) - Cook (ă) Song o' My Heart (1930) - Irish Woman (ă) Anybody's Woman (1930) - (ă) Dance with Me (1930, Short) Oh, For a Man! (1930) - Stage Door Admirer with Violets (ă) Unfaithful (1931) - Bit (ă) Subway Express (1931) - Mrs. Delaney Always Goodbye (1931) - Mrs. MacPherson, Moviegoer (ă) The Black Camel (1931) - Mrs. MacMasters The Brat (1931) - Angry Wife in Night Court (ă) Waterloo Bridge (1931) - Distraught Woman on Stairway (ă) 24 Hours (1931) - Nurse (ă) Possessed (1931) - Woman at Political Rally (ă) Frankenstein (1931) - Mourner (ă) Models and Wives (1931, Short) A House Divided (1931) - Townswoman (ă) Ladies of the Big House (1931) - Inmate (ă) Delicious (1931) - Dancer (ă) A Fool's Advice (1932) - Woman at Rally (ă) Texas Cyclone (1932) - Katie The Impatient Maiden (1932) - Irish Neighbor (ă) The Expert (1932) - Neighbor (ă) The Big Timer (1932) - 2nd Job Seeker (ă) Dancers in the Dark (1932) - Cleaning Lady (ă) Devil's Lottery (1932) - Inquest Onlooker (ă) Scandal for Sale (1932) - Hotel Resident (ă) The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932) - Court Matron (ă) Radio Patrol (1932) - Landlady (ă) Beauty Parlor (1932) - Landlady (ă) Almost Married (1932) - Cook 70,000 Witnesses (1932) - Scrubwoman (ă) Blonde Venus (1932) - Landlady (ă) Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) - Mrs. MacTavish (ă) Wild Girl (1932) - Washerwoman (ă) Call Her Savage (1932) - Lady in Tenement (ă) Laughter in Hell (1933) - Townswoman (ă) She Done Him Wrong (1933) - Cleaning Lady (ă) Her Splendid Folly (1933) - Mrs. Clancey Ladies They Talk About (1933) - Prisoner in Visiting Room (ă) Men Must Fight (1933) - Pacifist Audience Member (ă) Nature in the Wrong (1933, Short) - Mrs. Clancy (ă) Sweepings (1933) - Mrs. Patrick O'Leary (ă) The Whirlwind (1933) - Mrs. Curtis The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933) - Scrubwoman (ă) Pilgrimage (1933) - Mrs. MacGregor (ă) The Power and the Glory (1933) - Nurse (ă) Doctor Bull (1933) - Townswoman at Meeting (ă) Brief Moment (1933) - Cook (ă) Footlight Parade (1933) - Wardrobe Woman on Bus (ă) My Woman (1933) - Woman at Ironing Board (ă) Meet the Baron (1933) - Washer Woman (ă) Broadway Through a Keyhole (1933) - Cleaning Woman (ă) The Invisible Man (1933) - Screaming Woman (ă) Design for Living (1933) - Theatre Chambermaid (ă) The World Changes (1933) - Lady at Party (ă) Beloved (1934) - Mrs. O'Leary The Woman Condemned (1934) - Crying Woman at Night Court (ă) Voice in the Night (1934) - Woman on Phone in Montage (ă) Manhattan Melodrama (1934) - Boat Passenger (ă) Change of Heart (1934) - Woman in Street (ă) Murder at the Vanities (1934) - Assistant Wardrobe Woman (ă) The Loudspeaker (1934) - Landlady (ă) The Most Precious Thing in Life (1934) - Washerwoman (ă) A Man's Game (1934) - Landlady (ă) The World Moves On (1934) - English Soldier's Mother (ă) Baby Take a Bow (1934) - Mrs. O'Brien (ă) Cross Streets (1934) - Sonny's Mother Whom the Gods Destroy (1934) - Newfoundlander (ă) The Defense Rests (1934) - Scrub Woman (ă) I Give My Love (1934) - Marie (ă) Our Daily Bread (1934) - Community Woman in Cottage (ă) One More River (1934) - Cook (ă) The Man from Hell (1934) - Mrs. Frank McCarrol (ă) Charlie Chan in London (1934) - Prison Visitor (ă) Flirtation (1934) - Woman on a Window (ă) The Little Minister (1934) - Nanny I'm a Father (1935, Short) - Neighbor Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935) - Mrs. Leathwaite Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Hans' Wife Vagabond Lady (1935) - Myrtle - Cleaning Lady (ă) $10 Raise (1935) - Landlady (ă) Ginger (1935) - Mrs. Monohan (ă) The Irish in Us (1935) - Ma O'Hara Bonnie Scotland (1935) - Mrs. Bickerdike Waterfront Lady (1935) - Mrs. O'Flaherty Metropolitan (1935) - Mrs. Tolentino (ă) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Peddler (ă) The Lady Consents (1936) - Apple Lady (ă) Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) - Farmer's Wife on Way to Church (ă) Laughing Irish Eyes (1936) - Mrs. O'Keefe Share the Wealth (1936, Short) - Ma MacClyde Forgotten Faces (1936) - Mrs. O'Leary Little Miss Nobody (1936) - Mrs. Biddle (ă) The White Angel (1936) - Nursing Applicant (ă) Mary of Scotland (1936) - Nurse Yellowstone (1936) - Mrs. McDougall (ă) Stage Struck (1936) - Mrs. Cassidy The Plot Thickens (1936) - Woman with Bag (ă) After the Thin Man (1936) - Rose (ă) The Plough and the Stars (1936) - Woman at Barricades Great Guy (1936) - Mrs. Ogilvie The Great O'Malley (1937) - Mrs. O'Malley Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937) - Mrs. Watson - Landlady (ă) Her Husband Lies (1937) - Mrs. Jenks (ă) Racketeers in Exile (1937) - Irish Woman (ă) Way Out West (1937) - Cook (ă) That I May Live (1937) - Mrs. Healy (ă) Pick A Star (1937) - Mrs. Watts - Undertaker's Wife (ă) The Man in Blue (1937) - Woman (ă) Married Before Breakfast (1937) - Mrs. Nevins (ă) One Man Justice (1937) - Bridget Meet the Boyfriend (1937) - Mrs. Grimes The Toast of New York (1937) - Mrs. Callahan - Charwoman (ă) You Can't Have Everything (1937) - Y.W.C.A. Scrub Woman (ă) Souls at Sea (1937) - Cook (ă) Double Wedding (1937) - Mrs. Keough A Damsel in Distress (1937) - Cook (ă) You're Only Young Once (1937) - Mary's Mother (ă) Mannequin (1937) - Mrs. O'Rourke (ă) Lady Behave! (1937) - Cook Friend Indeed (1937, Short) - Housekeeper Kidnapped (1938) - Mrs. MacDonald Blond Cheat (1938) - Maggie - the Charwoman (ă) City Streets (1938) - Mrs. Devlin Gateway (1938) - Scottish Mother (ă) Campus Confessions (1938) - Mrs. Twill (ă) Vacation from Love (1938) - Maggie, the Cook (ă) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) - Mrs. Patrick McGee (ă) Thanks for Everything (1938) - Maggie, Irish Woman (ă) Off the Record (1939) - Mrs. Finnegan (ă) Wings of the Navy (1939) - Irene's Housekeeper (ă) Tail Spin (1939) - Mrs. Lee The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - Mrs. Hudson Broadway Serenade (1939) - Annie (ă) Code of the Streets (1939) - Mrs. Flaherty (ă) Tell No Tales (1939) - Mrs. Bryant (ă) Racketeers of the Range (1939) - Mary - Benson's Housekeeper (ă) Captain Fury (1939) - Mrs. Bailey The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939) - Landlady (ă) She Married a Cop (1939) - Ma Duffy The Story That Couldn't Be Printed (1939, Short) - Woman Reading Newspaper (ă) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) - Mrs. Hudson Parents on Trial (1939) - Martha The Escape (1939) - Neighbor (ă) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - Woman (ă) Marshal of Mesa City (1939) - Mrs. Dudley Rulers of the Sea (1939) - Mrs. Ogilvie (ă) Day-Time Wife (1939) - Scrubwoman (ă) The Night of Nights (1939) - Mrs. O'Leary (ă) Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939) - 1st Pencil Woman (ă) My Son Is Guilty (1939) - Mrs. Montabelli (ă) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) - Cookie, the Cook (ă) Women Without Names (1940) - Juror (ă) My Son, My Son! (1940) - Mrs. Mulvaney Saps at Sea (1940) - Mrs. O'Riley (ă) Tear Gas Squad (1940) - Mrs. Sullivan I Take This Oath (1940) - Mrs. Eileen Hanagan Brother Orchid (1940) - Mrs. Sweeney - Flo's Landlady (ă) The Last Alarm (1940) - Mrs. Hadley The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) - Mrs. Dunn (ă) Queen of the Mob (1940) - Tenement Landlady When the Daltons Rode (1940) - Ma Dalton Young People (1940) - Old Woman (ă) Public Deb No. 1 (1940) - Landlady (ă) Nobody's Children (1940) - Mary Go West (1940) - Train Passenger (ă) No, No, Nanette (1940) - Gertrude, the Cook Kitty Foyle (1940) - First Charwoman (ă) The Invisible Woman (1940) - Mrs. Bates Flight from Destiny (1941) - Martha Pot o' Gold (1941) - Ma McCorkle Double Cross (1941) - Mrs. Murray Unfinished Business (1941) - Miss Brady (ă) Unexpected Uncle (1941) - Mrs. Mason (ă) It Started with Eve (1941) - Mrs. O'Toole - Cleaning Lady (ă) How Green Was My Valley (1941) - Gossiper (ă) Appointment for Love (1941) - Martha Borrowed Hero (1941) - Mrs. Riley Riot Squad (1941) - Mrs. McGonigle Sealed Lips (1942) - Mrs. Ann Morton (Fred's mother) Blue, White and Perfect (1942) - Mrs. Flaherty - Mike's Landlady (ă) Bombay Clipper (1942) - Abigail 'Mag' MacPherson Fly-by-Night (1942) - Ma Prescott The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942) - Mrs. Scott (ă) Dr. Broadway (1942) - Broadway Carrie Meet the Stewarts (1942) - Mrs. Stewart It Happened in Flatbush (1942) - Mrs. Collins Powder Town (1942) - Mrs. Douglas The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - Maid (ă) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) - Mrs. Hudson (ă) Halfway to Shanghai (1942) - Mrs. McIntyre The Mummy's Tomb (1942) - Jane Banning Gentleman Jim (1942) - Mrs. Casey (ă) The Boss of Big Town (1942) - Mrs. Lane Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942) - Mrs. Hudson