Ethel Griffies

Ethel Griffies
Born	Ethel Woods (1878-04-26)26 April 1878 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	9 September 1975(1975-09-09) (aged 97) London, England, UK
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1881-1967
Spouse(s)	Walter Beaumont (???? - 1910; his death) Edward Cooper (1917 - 1956; his death)

Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878, Sheffield, West Riding of 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, which is she is mostly remembered as, was the elderly ornithologist Ms. Bundy in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).

Partial filmography

• Waterloo Bridge (1931)
• White Woman (1933)
• Anna Karenina (1935)
• Not So Dusty (1936)
• Kathleen Mavourneen (1937)
• Jane Eyre (1943) (uncredited)
• Music for Millions (1944) Mrs. McGuff
• The Birds (1963)
• Billy Liar (1963)

External links

• Ethel Griffies at the Internet Broadway Database
• Ethel Griffies at IMDb