Portrait of Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon

Acting

Biography

Aline MacMahon was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She worked extensively from 1921, when she began appearing on Broadway, until her full retirement from acting in 1975. MacMahon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1944 film Dragon Seed.

Born: May 3, 1899

Place of Birth: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

2003
Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

1974
Antigone

as Nurse

1971
1963
All the Way Home

as Aunt Hannah

1962
Diamond Head

as Kapiolani Kahana

1961
The Defenders

as Mary Alice Trotter

1961
The Defenders

as Mrs. Vronis

1961
The Young Doctors

as Dr. Lucy Grainger

1960
Cimarron

as Mrs. Mavis Pegler

1959
Medea

as The Nurse

1955
The Man from Laramie

as Kate Canaday

1953
The Eddie Cantor Story

as Grandma Esther

1950
The Flame and the Arrow

as Nonna Bartoli

1949
Roseanna McCoy

as Sarie McCoy

1948
Studio One

as Mrs. Weston

1948
Studio One

as Mrs. Grey

1948
The Search

as Mrs. Murray

1947
The Mighty McGurk

as Mamie Steeple

1944
Guest in the House

as Aunt Martha Proctor

1944
Dragon Seed

as Ling Tan's Wife

1944
Reward Unlimited

as Mrs. Scott

1944
Twenty Years After

as (archive footage)

1943
Stage Door Canteen

as Aline MacMahon

1942
Tish

as Lizzie Wilkins

1941
Out of the Fog

as Florence Goodwin

1939
Back Door to Heaven

as Miss Williams

1937
When You're in Love

as Marianne Woods

1935
Ah, Wilderness!

as Cousin Lily

1935
Kind Lady

as Mary Herries

1935
I Live My Life

as Betty Collins

1935
Mary Jane's Pa

as Ellen Preston

1935
While the Patient Slept

as Nurse Sarah Keate

1934
Babbitt

as Myra Babbitt

1934
Big Hearted Herbert

as Elizabeth Kalness

1934
Side Streets

as Bertha Krasnoff

1934
The Merry Frinks

as Hattie 'Mom' Frink

1934
1933
The World Changes

as Anna Nordholm

1933
Heroes for Sale

as Mary Dennis

1932
Silver Dollar

as Sarah Martin

1932
One Way Passage

as Countess Barilhaus

1932
Once in a Lifetime

as May Daniels

1932
Life Begins

as Miss Bowers

1932
Week-End Marriage

as Agnes Davis

1932
The Mouthpiece

as Miss Hickey, Day's Secretary

1931
Five Star Final

as Miss Taylor