Eily Malyon
Eily Malyon (born Eily Sophie Lees-Craston, 30 October 1879[1] – 26 September 1961) was an English character actress from about 1900 to the 1940s. She had career on the British stage before coming to Hollywood to perform in motion pictures.
Eily Malyon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Eily Sophie Lees Craston 30 October 1879 London, England |
| Died | 26 September 1961 (aged 81) South Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Eily Craston |
| Occupation | Character actress |
| Years active | 1930s, 1940s |
The daughter of Harry Craston, a master boot and lawn tennis shoe manufacturer, and his wife, Malyon was born in the London district of Islington in 1879. Her mother, Agnes Thomas, was also an actress; her parents divorced in 1882. Malyon specialised in playing stern schoolteachers, maids, nurses, nuns, governesses and spinsters, usually in melodramas, historical dramas and thrillers.[2]
Partial filmography
- Born to Love (1931) - Nurse (uncredited)
- Lovers Courageous (1932) - Landlady (uncredited)
- The Wet Parade (1932) - Irish Drunk's Wife (uncredited)
- Night Court (1932) - Hungry Woman in Court (uncredited)
- Rasputin and the Empress (1932) - Woman Yelling 'Blessed Among Women!' (uncredited)
- Today We Live (1933) - Wendy, the Maid (uncredited)
- Looking Forward (1933) - Mrs. Munsey (uncredited)
- Eight Girls in a Boat (1934) - Teacher (uncredited)
- Nana (1934) - Nana's First Employer (uncredited)
- His Greatest Gamble (1934) - Jenny
- Great Expectations (1934) - Sarah Pocket
- Limehouse Blues (1934) - Woman Who Finds Pug (uncredited)
- Forsaking All Others (1934) - Mrs. Gordon - Customer (uncredited)
- The Little Minister (1934) - Evalina
- Romance in Manhattan (1935) - Miss Evans
- Clive of India (1935) - Mrs. Clifford
- The Florentine Dagger (1935) - Frau Fredericka
- Les Misérables (1935) - Mother Superior
- Mark of the Vampire (1935) - Sick Woman (scenes deleted)
- The Flame Within (1935) - Murdock, Lillian's Housekeeper
- The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935) - Angus' Wife (uncredited)
- Diamond Jim (1935) - Organist (uncredited)
- The Melody Lingers On (1935) - Sister Maria
- I Found Stella Parish (1935) - Ship's Clothing Clerk (uncredited)
- Kind Lady (1935) - Mrs. Edwards
- Ah, Wilderness! (1935) - Nora - the Maid (uncredited)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935) - Mrs. Cruncher
- The Widow from Monte Carlo (1935) - Lady Maynard
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) - Landlady
- Dracula's Daughter (1936) - Miss Peabody - Nurse (uncredited)
- One Rainy Afternoon (1936) - President of Purity League
- The White Angel (1936) - Sister Colomba
- The Devil-Doll (1936) - Laundry Proprietress (uncredited)
- Anthony Adverse (1936) - Mother Superior
- A Woman Rebels (1936) - Miss Piper (uncredited)
- Three Men on a Horse (1936) - Miss Burns
- Camille (1936) - Therese - Maid in Country House (uncredited)
- Career Woman (1936) - Miss Brinkerhoff
- God's Country and the Woman (1937) - Mrs. Higgenbottom (uncredited)
- That I May Live (1937) - Cally Plivens (uncredited)
- Night Must Fall (1937) - Nurse
- Parnell (1937) - Irish Woman with Dead Child (uncredited)
- Another Dawn (1937) - Mrs. Farnold
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) - Mrs. Turner
- Kidnapped (1938) - Mrs. Campbell
- The Young in Heart (1938) - Sarah
- The Little Princess (1939) - Cook
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - Mrs. Barryman
- The Night Riders (1939) - Aunt Martha (uncredited)
- Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) - Mrs. McLaughlin
- On Borrowed Time (1939) - Demetria Riffle
- Sabotage (1939) - Woman Standing Behind Henry and Laura
- We Are Not Alone (1939) - Archdeacon's Wife
- Barricade (1939) - Mrs. Little - Head of Mission
- Young Tom Edison (1940) - Miss Lavina Howard, School Teacher
- Untamed (1940) - Mrs. Sarah McGavity
- Foreign Correspondent (1940) - College Arms Hotel Cashier (uncredited)
- Flowing Gold (1940) - Cashier (uncredited)
- Arkansas Judge (1941) - Widow Smithers
- Reaching for the Sun (1941) - Landlady
- Man Hunt (1941) - Lyme Regis Postmistress
- Hit the Road (1941) - Cathy Crookshank
- You're Telling Me (1942) - Mrs. Appleby
- The Man in the Trunk (1942) - Abbie Addison
- Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942) - Mrs. Grimes
- I Married a Witch (1942) - Tabitha Wooley
- The Undying Monster (1942) - Mrs. Walton (uncredited)
- Shadow of a Doubt (1943) - Mrs. Cochran (uncredited)
- Above Suspicion (1943) - Walmer Hotel Proprietess (uncredited)
- The Man from Down Under (1943) - Sarah - Aggie's Maid (uncredited)
- Jane Eyre (1943) - Mrs. Skatcher (uncredited)
- Going My Way (1944) - Mrs. Carmody
- The Seventh Cross (1944) - Fraulein Bachmann
- Grissly's Millions (1945) - Mattie
- Roughly Speaking (1945) - The Dean (uncredited)
- Son of Lassie (1945) - Washwoman
- Scared Stiff (1945) - Mrs. Cooke
- Paris Underground (1945) - Madame Martin
- She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) - Spinster on Train (uncredited)
- Devotion (1946) - Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited)
- She-Wolf of London (1946) - Hannah
- The Secret Heart (1946) - Miss Hunter
- The Challenge (1948) - Kitty Fyffe (final film role)
References
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