Jessie Royce Landis
Acting • Born 1896-11-25 – Died 1972-02-02
Biography
Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Royce Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
32 credits
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Clara Thornhill
To Catch a Thief
Movie • 1955
Jessie Stevens
Airport
Movie • 1970
Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Main Street to Broadway
Movie • 1953
Self (uncredited)
Boys' Night Out
Movie • 1962
Ethel Williams
The Swan
Movie • 1956
Princess Beatrix
My Man Godfrey
Movie • 1957
Angelica Bullock
Goodbye Again
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Van der Besh
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Chase
Critic's Choice
Movie • 1963
Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Bon Voyage!
Movie • 1962
Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
I Married a Woman
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Blake
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones
Movie • 1971
Grandmother Greher
The Girl He Left Behind
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Mother Didn't Tell Me
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Wright
A Private's Affair
Movie • 1959
Elizabeth T. Chapman
Derelict
Movie • 1930
Helen Lorber
My Foolish Heart
Movie • 1950
Martha Winters
It Happens Every Spring
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Greenleaf
Gidget Goes to Rome
Movie • 1963
Albertina Blythe
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
The Ceremony of Innocence
Movie • 1970
Queen Mother Alfreda
Meet Me Tonight
Movie • 1952
Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
Ironside
TV • 1967
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Claire Crane
Thriller
TV • 1960
Mrs. Kilburn
Climax!
TV • 1954
Olivia Chesney
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Madame Vachet
Columbo
TV • 1971
Mrs. Chadwick
Valentine's Day
TV • 1964
Mrs. Edwina Pierce
The United States Steel Hour
TV • 1953
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV • 1964
Madame Olga Nemirovitch