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Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods; 26 April 1878 – 9 September 1975) was a British actress. She is remembered for portraying the ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds (1963).
Ethel Griffies. Actress: The Birds. The daughter of actor-manager Samuel Rupert Woods and actress Lillie Roberts, Ethel Griffies began her own stage career at the age of 3. She was 21 when she finally made her London debut in 1899, and 46 when she made her first Broadway appearance in "Havoc" (1924).
Sep 12, 1975 · Ethel Griffies, who in recent ears was the oldest working actress in the English‐speaking theater, died Tuesday in London after a stroke. She was 97 years old. Miss Griffies...
Ethel Griffies. Actress: The Birds. The daughter of actor-manager Samuel Rupert Woods and actress Lillie Roberts, Ethel Griffies began her own stage career at the age of 3. She was 21 when she finally made her London debut in 1899, and 46 when she made her first Broadway appearance in "Havoc" (1924).
Aug 14, 2011 · Ethel Griffies. 1878-1975. On April 26, 1878 in Sheffield, England actress Lillie Roberts presented her husband actor-manager Samuel Rupert Woods with a daughter, Ethel. Three years later the couple presented the girl on stage and an 80 year career began. Known professionally as Ethel Griffies ( A youthful bid for independence?
Ethel Griffies was a tight-lipped, often bespectacled British actress, who worked in the British theater before giving Hollywood a shot in the in 1930s. She then often portrayed older women who could be either frail and vulnerable, or fierce and disapproving in films such as Waterloo Bridge, Anna Kareina, How Green Was My Vallet and most ...
English actress. Born Ethel Woods, April 26, 1878, in Sheffield, England; died Sept 9, 1975, in London, England; dau. of Samuel Rupert Woods and Lillie Roberts Woods (actors); m. Walter Beaumont (actor, died 1910); m. Edward Cooper (actor), 1917 (died 1956).
Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods) was an English actress of stage, screen and television. One of her last roles, for which she is best remembered, was the elderly ornithologist Mrs. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock 's The Birds (1963).
Miss Ethel Griffies, the veteran actress who appeared in more than 100 films and scores of stage plays in a long career in Britain and the United States, has died in London. Sir John Gielgud writes: Ethel Griffies was a versatile and stylish actress and a remarkable woman off the stage as well.
Ethel Griffies is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes The Birds, Billy Liar, How Green Was My Valley, Stranger on the Third Floor, Werewolf of London, Love Me Tonight, Anna Karenina, and Waterloo Bridge.
