Other names Lovett De Wolfe Years active 1905–1955 Role Film actress | Occupation Actress Name Margaret Wycherly Children Anthony Veiller | |
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Full Name Margaret De Wolfe Born 26 October 1881 ( 1881-10-26 ) London, England, UK Parents J. L. De Wolfe, Mrs. J. L. De Wolfe. Movies White Heat, Sergeant York, Hangmen Also Die!, Random Harvest, Keeper of the Flame Similar People Bayard Veiller, Anthony Veiller, Raoul Walsh, Howard E Koch, Susan Peters | ||
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Margaret De Wolfe Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress. She spent many years in the United States and is best remembered for her Broadway roles and Hollywood character parts.
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Early life
Wycherly was born Margaret De Wolfe in London, England of American parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. L. De Wolfe. She was married to writer Bayard Veiller (1869–1943) in 1901. They had a son, Anthony Veiller (1903–1965), who also became a writer. She and Veiller divorced in 1922.
Career
She was primarily a stage actress, appearing in one silent film. In 1929 she appeared in her second film, but first talkie, The Thirteenth Chair, based on the 1916 play by her husband in which she had starred. The film was directed by Tod Browning and was in the genre of mystery-old house melodrama. Twelve years later, Wycherley appeared in Sergeant York in 1941. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Mother York, though perhaps her best remembered screen role was as "Ma Jarrett", the mother of the psychopathic gangster Cody Jarrett, in White Heat (1949), which famously starred James Cagney.
Wycherly starred in several popular Broadway plays, including Tobacco Road, Liliom, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Thirteenth Chair (which role she reprised in the film of the same name). Her other films include Keeper of the Flame, The Yearling, Random Harvest, Forever Amber, The Man with a Cloak and Johnny Angel starring George Raft.
Death
Wycherly died on June 6, 1956, at St. Clare's Hospital in New York City, at the age of 74. She was buried at the St Mary Churchyard, Bepton, Chichester District, West Sussex, England.