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Jane Darwell (October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American film and stage actress. With appearances in over 100 major motion pictures, Darwell is perhaps best-remembered for her portrayal of the matriarch and leader of the Joad family in the film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and her role as the Bird Woman in Mary Poppins.
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Filmography
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Movies 170
TV Shows 13
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John Ford Goes to War (2002)
Movie
(archive footage)

Disney's Greatest Lullabies Volume 2 (1986)
Movie
Bird Woman

Mary Poppins (1964)
Movie
7.92
Mrs. Leah Mulligan

Burke's Law (1963)
TV
6
Mamie Carnation

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
TV
5
Grandma Wilson

Hound-Dog Man (1959)
Movie
Mrs. Knowles

Maverick (1957)
TV
5.33
Annie Jackson

The Greer Case (1957)
Movie
Matron Jamieson

Girls in Prison (1956)
Movie
Mme Rogers

There's Always Tomorrow (1956)
Movie
Landlady

A Life at Stake (1955)
Movie
B. Cool / Mrs. Koestler

Climax! (1954)
TV
Mrs. Connelly

The Bigamist (1953)
Movie
Irene Townsend

Letter to Loretta (1953)
TV
Ma Stanton

Affair with a Stranger (1953)
Movie
Aurora Ratchitt

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Movie
6
Mrs. Spatch

It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
Movie
Mrs. Bush

We're Not Married! (1952)
Movie
3
Mrs. Belden

Excuse My Dust (1951)
Movie
Nellie Thursday

The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Movie
Minverva Bobbin

Father's Wild Game (1950)
Movie
Mrs. Lockridge

The Second Face (1950)
Movie
Mrs. Wurdeman

Three Husbands (1950)
Movie
Hattie Hickory

Redwood Forest Trail (1950)
Movie
Molly Hale

Surrender (1950)
Movie
Isolation Matron

Caged (1950)
Movie
Mrs. Murphy

The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (1950)
Movie
Sister Ledyard

Wagon Master (1950)
Movie
Aunt Jane

Red Canyon (1949)
Movie
Miss Florie

3 Godfathers (1948)
Movie
3.5
Anna - Maid

Studio One (1948)
TV
Aunt Ella

Train to Alcatraz (1948)
Movie
Mrs. Aggie Curtis

The Red Stallion (1947)
Movie
Mrs. Ferris

Keeper of the Bees (1947)
Movie
Kate Nelson

My Darling Clementine (1946)
Movie
6.5
Sister Mary Brigid

Three Wise Fools (1946)
Movie
Aunt Hattie

The Dark Horse (1946)
Movie
Tugboat Annie

Captain Tugboat Annie (1945)
Movie
Mrs. Patterson

I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Movie
Mrs. Helen Dobson

Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
Movie
Mrs. Pearson

Music in Manhattan (1944)
Movie
Minister's Wife

The Impatient Years (1944)
Movie
Mrs. Connors

Reckless Age (1944)
Movie
Mrs. Henderson

Tender Comrade (1944)
Movie
Miss Trask (uncredited)

Government Girl (1943)
Movie
The Mother

Family Feud (1943)
Movie
Jane Darwell

Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Movie
Aunt Emma Forrester

Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943)
Movie
Ma Grier

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Movie
1
Aunt Emma Forrester

The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
Movie
Grandma Fogarty

Highways by Night (1942)
Movie
Narrator (voice)

The Battle of Midway (1942)
Movie
Mrs. Mariah Clemm

The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
Movie
Mrs.Scott aka Aunt Hattie

Men of Texas (1942)
Movie
Mrs. Maguire

It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
Movie
Grandmother Nora Campbell

Young America (1942)
Movie
Mrs. Donahue

All Through the Night (1942)
Movie
Miss Adams

Private Nurse (1941)
Movie
Grandma Allen

Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Movie
Mrs. Huguenine

Chad Hanna (1940)
Movie
Supervisor Stormer

Youth Will Be Served (1940)
Movie
Eliza Kent

Brigham Young (1940)
Movie
Mrs. Maggie Moriarty

Untamed (1940)
Movie
Mrs. Herman

Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Movie
Mrs. Merriwether

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Movie
5.55
Mrs. Allen

20,000 Men a Year (1939)
Movie
Aunt Phoebe - Mrs. Smiley

The Rains Came (1939)
Movie
Mrs. Keefe

Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
Movie
Mrs. Callahan

Unexpected Father (1939)
Movie
Aunt Mary Perkins

Inside Story (1939)
Movie
Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother

Jesse James (1939)
Movie
Mrs. Graham

Up the River (1938)
Movie
Nurse Waldron

Five of a Kind (1938)
Movie
Polly, Helen's supervisor

Time Out for Murder (1938)
Movie
Miss Hutchins

Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Kilian

Three Blind Mice (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Rogers

Battle of Broadway (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Sheldon, Bill's Mother

The Jury's Secret (1938)
Movie
Mrs. Thompson

Change of Heart (1938)
Movie
Aunt Cynthia Barton

Dangerously Yours (1937)
Movie
Mrs. Krueger

Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
Movie
Ma Marine

The Singing Marine (1937)
Movie
Mrs. Marlowe

Slave Ship (1937)
Movie
Mrs. Henry

Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Movie
Miss Sarah Keats - Head Nurse

The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
Movie
Clip from: Life Begins at Forty

Lest We Forget (1937)
Movie
Mrs. Mary Flaherty

Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Movie
Mrs. Flaherty

Love Is News (1937)
Movie
Glory Bradford

Laughing at Trouble (1936)
Movie
Aunt Ri Hyar

Ramona (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Harold

Craig's Wife (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Martha Lind

Star for a Night (1936)
Movie
Maud Mahoney

White Fang (1936)
Movie
Martha Bradley

Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Meecham

Private Number (1936)
Movie
Eliza Croft

Captain January (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Ellis

The First Baby (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Graham

The Country Doctor (1936)
Movie
Mrs. Walsh

We're Only Human (1935)
Movie
Grandma

Metropolitan (1935)
Movie
Mrs. Louise Keats

Navy Wife (1935)
Movie
Mrs. Denham

Curly Top (1935)
Movie
Mrs. Winchell - Jack's Mother

Wig-Wag (1935)
Movie
Ida Harris

Life Begins at Forty (1935)
Movie
Nora McFadden

McFadden´s Flats (1935)
Movie
Mrs. Sweeney

One More Spring (1935)
Movie
Mrs. Higgins

Bright Eyes (1934)
Movie
Landlady

Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
Movie
Miss 'Sailor' Robets

The White Parade (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Davis - The Landlady

Happiness Ahead (1934)
Movie
Mary O'Brien

Tomorrow's Youth (1934)
Movie
Frederick's Mother

Desirable (1934)
Movie
Ma McGarry (Uncredited)

Million Dollar Ransom (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Stuckelberger

Embarrassing Moments (1934)
Movie
Ma Taylor

Blind Date (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Barrett - Mary's Mother

One Night of Love (1934)
Movie
Mrs. O'Day

Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)
Movie
Mrs. O'Keefe

Let's Talk It Over (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Mc Gowan

Change of Heart (1934)
Movie
Miss Cardell, Sophia's Nurse (uncredited)

The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Movie
1
Maude (uncredited)

Finishing School (1934)
Movie
Baroness (uncredited)

Wonder Bar (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Wood

Once to Every Woman (1934)
Movie
Dinner Guest (uncredited)

Journal of a Crime (1934)
Movie
Mrs. Woolsey (uncredited)

David Harum (1934)
Movie
Gladys - the Wife

Heat Lightning (1934)
Movie
Customer at Maison Elegance (uncredited)

Fashions of 1934 (1934)
Movie
Mrs. O'Hara (Uncredited)

Cross Country Cruise (1934)
Movie
Curtis' Housekeeper

Design for Living (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Case

He Couldn't Take It (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Williams

King for a Night (1933)
Movie
Roman Spa Proprietress (uncredited)

Roman Scandals (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Lane

Only Yesterday (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Spence - Landlady

Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Gage (uncredited)

Ann Vickers (1933)
Movie
6
Mrs. Lind

One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Marble

Before Dawn (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Webster - Head Prison Matron

Bed of Roses (1933)
Movie
Nurse Brown (uncredited)

Emergency Call (1933)
Movie
Boardinghouse Keeper (uncredited)

Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
Movie
Nurse Esmond

The Girl in 419 (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Elizabeth Wharton

Bondage (1933)
Movie
Banquet Guest

Murders in the Zoo (1933)
Movie
6
Mrs. McGonagle

Child of Manhattan (1933)
Movie
Ma Kearny

Air Hostess (1933)
Movie
Mrs. Walter Robinson

Women Won't Tell (1932)
Movie
Mrs. Brock

Hot Saturday (1932)
Movie
Alice's Aunt

Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
Movie
Mrs. Adolph Schmidt

Back Street (1932)
Movie
School Teacher (Uncredited)

Young America (1932)
Movie
Mrs. Turner

Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Movie
Widow Douglas

Huckleberry Finn (1931)
Movie
Widow Douglas

Tom Sawyer (1930)
Movie
Anxious Woman at Mine Disaster (uncredited)

Little Church Around the Corner (1923)
Movie
Housekeeper

The Restless Sex (1920)
Movie
Mrs. Haggerty

The Reform Candidate (1915)
Movie
Mrs. Van Buren

The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915)
Movie
Mrs. Russell - Aunt Diddy

After Five (1915)
Movie
Senora Castro Kenton - Juanita's Mother

The Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Movie
Mrs. Tyler

Ready Money (1914)
Movie
Mrs. Brainerd

The Only Son (1914)
Movie
Mary Dunkel

This is Alice
TV
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1879-10-15
Deathday1967-08-13 (87 years old)
Birth NamePatti Woodard
Birth PlaceMarion County, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsPatti Woodard
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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