Una O'Connor
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With the body of a scarecrow, the contemptuous stare of a house detective, and the voice of an air-raid siren, Irish-born Una O'Connor was one of filmdom's most unforgettable character actresses. Beginning her career with Dublin's Abbey Players and extending her activities to the London's West End and Broadway, O'Connor was cast as the socially conscious housekeeper in Noel Coward's 1932 London production Cavalcade; it was this role which brought her to Hollywood in 1933. She rapidly became a favorite of two prominent directors, James Whale and John Ford, neither of whom were inclined to ask her to tone down her film performances. For Whale, O'Connor screeched her way through two major 1930s horror films, The Invisible Man (1933) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935); for Ford, O'Connor played the grieving mother of martyred IRA activist Wallace Ford in The Informer (1935) and Mrs. Grogan in The Plough and the Stars (1936). For those detractors who believe that O'Connor never gave a subtle, controlled performance in her life, refer to Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946), wherein Ms. O'Connor spoke not a single word as the glowering mother of upper-class twit Richard Haydn. Fourteen years after portraying Charles Laughton's overprotective mother in This Land Is Mine (1943), Una O'Connor once more appeared opposite Laughton in 1957's Witness for the Prosecution, playing a hard-of-hearing housekeeper; it was her last screen performance.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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100% | Witness for the Prosecution |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Adventures of Don Juan |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Fighting Father Dunne |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Ivy |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Lost Honeymoon |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Unexpected Guest |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Of Human Bondage |
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— | 1946 |
94% | Cluny Brown |
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— | 1946 |
85% | The Bells of St. Mary's |
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— | 1945 |
89% | Christmas in Connecticut |
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— | 1945 |
86% | The Canterville Ghost |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Holy Matrimony |
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— | 1943 |
71% | This Land Is Mine |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Forever and a Day |
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— | 1943 |
90% | Random Harvest |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Always in My Heart |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Three Girls About Town |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Kisses for Breakfast |
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— | 1941 |
89% | How Green Was My Valley |
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— | 1941 |
100% | The Strawberry Blonde |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | He Stayed for Breakfast |
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— | 1940 |
93% | The Sea Hawk |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Lillian Russell |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | It All Came True |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | We Are Not Alone |
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— | 1939 |
100% | The Adventures of Robin Hood |
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— | 1938 |
No Score Yet | Call It a Day |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | Personal Property |
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— | 1937 |
No Score Yet | The Plough and the Stars |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Suzy |
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— | 1936 |
88% | Little Lord Fauntleroy |
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— | 1936 |
83% | Rose Marie |
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— | 1936 |
No Score Yet | Lloyds of London |
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— | 1936 |
94% | The Informer |
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— | 1935 |
98% | The Bride of Frankenstein |
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— | 1935 |
100% | David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger) |
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— | 1935 |
78% | The Barretts of Wimpole Street |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Chained |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | Stingaree |
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— | 1934 |
No Score Yet | All Men Are Enemies |
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— | 1934 |
94% | The Invisible Man |
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— | 1933 |
64% | Cavalcade |
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— | 1933 |
89% | Murder! |
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— | 1930 |
Quotes from Una O'Connor's Characters
Minnie: | It's a doctor Prae-tor-ius, he says, on a secret grave matter, he says. |