Occupation Film actor Years active 1913–1940 | Name Minnie Rayner Role Film actress | |
Born 2 May 1869 LondonUnited Kingdom Movies The Sleeping Cardinal, Gaslight, The Triumph of Sherlock, The Missing Rembrandt, If I Were Rich Similar People Thorold Dickinson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Cecil Hepworth | ||
Minnie Rayner (2 May 1869 – 13 December 1941) was a British stage and film actress. A character actress she played working class figures, often mothers, in films of the 1930s. Her roles include the matriarch of the working-class Fulham family who takes in an exiled Russian Prince (Ivor Novello) as a lodger in the comedy I Lived with You (1933). The same year she played Gracie Fields' mother in This Week of Grace.
A recurring role was that of the landlady Mrs. Hudson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations starring Arthur Wontner.
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