Mona Washbourne
Acting • Born 1903-11-27 – Died 1988-11-15
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
Filmography
67 credits
Yield to the Night
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Thomas, landlady
The Brides of Dracula
Movie • 1960
Helga Lang
The Bed Sitting Room
Movie • 1969
Mother
Billy Liar
Movie • 1963
Alice Fisher
Cast a Dark Shadow
Movie • 1955
Monica Bare
Two a Penny
Movie • 1967
The Collector
Movie • 1965
Aunt Annie
The Gambler and the Lady
Movie • 1952
Miss Minter
Night Must Fall
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Bramson
Son of a Stranger
Movie • 1958
The Games
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Hayes
Identikit
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Helen Fiedke
What Became of Jack and Jill?
Movie • 1972
Gran Alice Tallent
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Movie • 1965
Aunt Lil
The Winslow Boy
Movie • 1948
Miss Barnes
The Third Day
Movie • 1965
Catherine Parsons
Doctor in the House
Movie • 1954
Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
Circus Friends
Movie • 1956
Miss Linstead
Dark Interval
Movie • 1950
One Way Pendulum
Movie • 1965
Aunt Mildred
Stranger in Town
Movie • 1957
Agnes Smith
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 1975
Mrs. Jarley
The Good Companions
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Joe
Stevie
Movie • 1978
Aunt
Home
Movie • 1972
Kathleen
My Fair Lady
Movie • 1964
Mrs. Pearce
Count Your Blessings
Movie • 1959
Nanny
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Brown
A Cry from the Streets
Movie • 1958
Mrs. Daniels
Johnny on the Run
Movie • 1953
Mrs MacGregor
Once Upon a Dream
Movie • 1949
Vicar's Wife
O Lucky Man!
Movie • 1973
Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
Betrayed
Movie • 1954
Waitress (uncredited)
Number Ten
Movie • 1968
Julia Pryton
Poor Mother
Movie • 1970
Sister
I Spy a Stranger
Movie • 1972
Mrs. Hudson
Monsieur Ripois
Movie • 1954
Landlady
Loser Takes All
Movie • 1956
Nurse (uncredited)
Adam and Evelyne
Movie • 1949
Mrs. Salop, Lady Gambler (uncredited)
if....
Movie • 1968
Matron
Lost
Movie • 1956
Librarian
The London Connection
Movie • 1979
Aunt Lydia
It's Great to be Young!
Movie • 1956
Miss Merrow, a School Mistress
Fragment of Fear
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Gray
To Dorothy, a Son
Movie • 1954
Midwife Appleby
The Million Pound Note
Movie • 1954
Mum with Pram
The Blue Bird
Movie • 1976
Grandmother
Double Confession
Movie • 1950
Fussy Mother
Maytime in Mayfair
Movie • 1949
Lady Levenson
December Flower
Movie • 1984
Mary Grey
Probation Officer
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Mead
Pygmalion
Movie • 1981
Mrs. Pearce
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Movie • 1982
Queen Mother
Adventure in the Hopfields
Movie • 1954
Mrs. McBain
Casino Royale
Movie • 1967
Tea Lady (uncredited)
Operation Stogie
Movie • 1962
Lady Cormorant
John and Julie
Movie • 1955
Miss Rendlesham
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Movie • 1970
Mrs. Jarley
No Love for Johnnie
Movie • 1961
Well-wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Brideshead Revisited
TV • 1981
Nanny Hawkins
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Therese Raquin
TV • 1980
Madame Raquin
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
TV • 1977
Ethel Duckworth
Centre Play
TV • 1973
Hilda
Knight Errant Limited
TV • 1959
Miss Mathilda Lawson-Hardy
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Aunt Lydia