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Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878, Sheffield, Yorkshire – 9 September 1975, London) was an English actress of stage, screen, and television.
She appeared in numerous plays, 90 movies, and 10 TV episodes in a career that lasted from 1881 - when she was brought onstage as a baby by her parents - until 1967. She played Grace Poole in two versions of Jane Eyre, the 1934 Monogram and the 1943 versions.
One of her last roles was as the elderly ornithologist in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
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Griffies, Ethel Filmography
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2000, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Bundy
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1979, role: actress
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1965, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Spencer
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1963, role: actress , character name: Grandma Florence
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1963, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Bundy - Ornithologist
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1947, role: actress , character name: Undetermined Secondary Role
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1947, role: actress , character name: Aunt Martha
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1947, role: actress , character name: Aunt Katherine
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1946, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Abigail Smith
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1946, role: actress , character name: Aunt Branwell
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1945, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Fenway
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1945, role: actress , character name: Lady Stover
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1945, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Nelson
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1945, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Lamb
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1945, role: actress , character name: Clarissa Van Steed
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1944, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Glennie
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1944, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Dean
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1944, role: actress , character name: Woman on Train Opening Window
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1944, role: actress , character name: Mrs. O'Connor, Boardinghouse Tenant
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1944, role: actress , character name: Mrs. McGuff
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1943, role: actress , character name: Nurse
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1943, role: actress , character name: Lady Vale
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1943, role: actress , character name: Grace Poole
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1943, role: actress , character name: Wife of Man in Air Raid Shelter
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1942, role: actress , character name: Madame Saturnia
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1942, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Graham
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1942, role: actress , character name: Minerva Bromley
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1942, role: actress , character name: Gallagher
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1942, role: actress , character name: Catherine Vandewater
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1942, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Murdock
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1942, role: actress , character name: Matron
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1941, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Nicholas
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1941, role: actress , character name: Undetermined Role
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1941, role: actress , character name: Lady Fitzhugh
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1941, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Hanky
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1941, role: actress , character name: Miss Patience Nodbury
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1941, role: actress , character name: Aunt Agatha
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1941, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Zagra
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1940, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Kane, Michael's Landlady
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1940, role: actress , character name: Hester Pringle
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1940, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Clark - Landlady
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1940, role: actress , character name: Matron East
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1940, role: actress , character name: Princess Minetti
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1939, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Raymond
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1939, role: actress , character name: Miss Wildhack
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1939, role: actress , character name: Miss Bates - the Governess
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1939, role: actress , character name: Voice Teacher
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1938, role: actress , character name: Annie
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1938, role: actress , character name: Hannah O'Dwyer
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1936, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Etta Hamilton
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