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Jessie Royce Landis
Highest Rated: 97% North by Northwest (1959)
Lowest Rated: 60% Goodbye Again (1961)
Birthday: Nov 25, 1896
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mature character actress who specialized in portraying aristocrats and wealthy society matrons. Although Landis appeared in over 45 plays on the Broadway and London stage and made her film debut in 1930, it was not until the 1950s that she gave her most notable film performances. She was twice cast as the mother of Grace Kelly--in Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief" (1955), as the caustic mother who stubs out her cigarette in a soft-boiled egg, and again in "The Swan" (1956). Landis also played Cary Grant's sophisticated mother in "North By Northwest" (1959), although she was ten months younger than him.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones | Grandmother Greher (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Gidget Goes to Rome | Albertina Blythe (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Critic's Choice | Charlotte Orr (Character) | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Boys' Night Out | Ethel Williams (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 60% | 76% | Goodbye Again | Mrs. Van der Besh (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Private's Affair | Elizabeth T. Chapman (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 97% | 94% | North by Northwest | Clara Thornhill (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | I Married a Woman | Mrs. Blake (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | My Man Godfrey | Angelica Bullock (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Girl He Left Behind | Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Swan | Princess Beatrix (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 92% | 84% | To Catch a Thief | Jessie Stevens (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mother Didn't Tell Me | Mrs. Wright (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | My Foolish Heart | Martha Winters (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 88% | 66% | It Happens Every Spring | Mrs. Greenleaf (Character) | - | 1949 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 79% | Columbo | Mrs. Chadwick (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Claire Crane (Character) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Johanna Wagner (Character) | 1954-1955 |