May Whitty

Person · Open Library

Born

1865-06-19

Died

1948-05-29

Works

1

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Film & TV

Acting · Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Dame Mary Louise Webster, DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948), known professionally as May Whitty and later, for her charity work, Dame May Whitty, was an English stage and film actress. She was one of the first two women entertainers to become a Dame. The British actors union Equity was established in her home. After a successful career she moved over to Hollywood films at the age of 72. She went…

Known for

• The Sign of the Ram — Clara Brastock1948
• The Return of October — Aunt Martha Grant1948
• This Time for Keeps — Grandmother Cambaretti1947
• Green Dolphin Street — Mother Superior1947
• If Winter Comes — Mrs. Perch1947
• Devotion — Lady Thornton1946
• My Name Is Julia Ross — Mrs. Hughes1945
• Gaslight — Miss Thwaites1944
• The White Cliffs of Dover — Nanny1944
• Lassie Come Home — Dally1943

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 12,959x

2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,170x

3. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,459x

4. Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics

   · 1976 · cited 5,448x

5. Infectious Diseases of Humans

   · 1991 · cited 5,304x

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Key dates

Born

19 June 1865

Died

29 May 1948

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

May

Family name

Whitty

Gender

female

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Liverpool

Place of death

Beverly Hills

Spouse

Ben Webster

Child

Margaret Webster

Occupation

actor