Marie Ault
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Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film.
She was a star in many British films of the silent era, but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other notable film work includes the role of Rummy Mitchens in the film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941).
On stage from 1891, Ault's theatre work included the original production of Love on the Dole in 1935, as well as the 1941 film version.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.153 |
| Birthday | 1870-09-02 |
| Place of Birth | Wigan, Lancashire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Mary Cragg, Emily Cragg, |
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.261/23
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1941
Love on the Dole
5.727/12
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally c...
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Love on the Dole
1948
The Three Weird Sisters
7/3
Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estat...
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The Three Weird Sisters
1944
It Happened One Sunday
0/0
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
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It Happened One Sunday
1946
They Knew Mr. Knight
5.9/4
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing fri...
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They Knew Mr. Knight
1945
The Man from Morocco
5/1
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the...
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The Man from Morocco
1925
The Rat
0/0
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias...
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The Rat
1933
Money for Speed
0/0
A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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Money for Speed
1942
The Missing Million
4.5/3
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda...
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The Missing Million
1928
Dawn
0/0
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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Dawn
1923
Woman to Woman
6.5/2
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a...
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Woman to Woman
1941
Freedom Radio
6.3/3
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. H...
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Freedom Radio
1926
The Triumph of the Rat
6/4
Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she lea...
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The Triumph of the Rat
1939
Jamaica Inn
6.1/205
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeep...
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Jamaica Inn
1927
Hindle Wakes
7.1/8
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
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Hindle Wakes
1929
The Alley Cat
9/1
"The Alley Cat" - A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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The Alley Cat
1945
Blithe Spirit
6.9/132
An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough materia...
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Blithe Spirit
1933
Their Night Out
0/0
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
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Their Night Out
1925
The Prude's Fall
6/1
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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The Prude's Fall
1931
Third Time Lucky
5/1
Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who al...
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Third Time Lucky
1921
Class and No Class
0/0
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp.
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Class and No Class
1941
Major Barbara
6.4/18
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...
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Major Barbara
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
7.131/287
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who cl...
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1931
Contraband Love
0/0
'Cornwall. Detective poses as escaped convict to catch smugglers.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Contraband Love
1948
Blanche Fury
6/21
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marrie...
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Blanche Fury
1943
The Demi-Paradise
6.5/6
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking sh...
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The Demi-Paradise
1927
Madame Pompadour
0/0
The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.
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Madame Pompadour
1946
Wanted for Murder
6.2/29
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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Wanted for Murder
1949
Madness of the Heart
5.9/8
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
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Madness of the Heart
1928
The Silver Lining
0/0
The Silver Lining is a 1927 British silent drama film. Widow Hurst has two sons who fall out over a girl. One son attempts to frame the other for the...
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The Silver Lining
1945
Caesar and Cleopatra
6.127/55
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
1951
Cheer the Brave
0/0
A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her c...
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Cheer the Brave
1929
Kitty
4/1
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two...
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Kitty
1927
Roses of Picardy
0/0
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Roses of Picardy
1929
The Return of the Rat
5.8/4
The rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the...
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The Return of the Rat
1935
Lend Me Your Wife
0/0
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Lend Me Your Wife
1923
Paddy The Next Best Thing
0/0
A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
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Paddy The Next Best Thing
1933
Maid Happy
0/0
'Switzerland. Schoolgirl poses as socialite to win diplomat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Maid Happy
1928
Yellow Stockings
0/0
'A destitute girl inherits a fortune from her grandmother, and has to fight off fortune hunters. She is eventually reunited with the man who first ga...
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Yellow Stockings
1931
The Speckled Band
5.5/11
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
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The Speckled Band
1928
Victory
0/0
'France, 1918. Armistice saves girl and pilot from death, but not Canadian agent.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Victory
1923
The Monkey's Paw
0/0
A couple dreams that a magic paw returns their dead son.
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