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Sarah Padden is a Actor British born on 15 october 1881 at London (United-kingdom)

Sarah Padden

Sarah Padden
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Birth name Sarah Ann Padden
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 october 1881 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 4 december 1967 (at 86 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Sarah Padden (October 16, 1881 – December 4, 1967) was an American theatre and film character actress. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. She is noted for her expressive voice and for her psychological studies of the characters she portrayed. Her finest single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War.

Biography

Éduquée aux États-Unis, Sarah Padden y fait carrière et apparaît au cinéma dans cent-quarante-cinq films américains (comme second rôle de caractère ou dans des petits rôles non crédités), dont six muets, entre 1926 et 1958.

Au sein de sa filmographie (comprenant de nombreux westerns), mentionnons L'Étudiant de Leo McCarey (1929, avec Eddie Quillan et Sally O'Neil), Bad Girl de Frank Borzage (1931, avec Sally Eilers et James Dunn), Les bourreaux meurent aussi de Fritz Lang (1943, avec Brian Donlevy et Walter Brennan), ou encore Femme de feu d'André De Toth (1947, avec Joel McCrea et Veronica Lake).

À la télévision, elle contribue à quatorze séries américaines, entre 1950 et 1958, dont Les Aventures de Superman (un épisode, 1952) et Badge 714 (un épisode, 1956).

Au théâtre, dès les années 1900, Sarah Padden joue notamment dans le répertoire du vaudeville. À Broadway (New York), elle se produit dans quatre pièces, disséminées de 1906 à 1936, entre autres aux côtés d'Otis Skinner et Walter Pidgeon.

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(16 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(8 films)
Frank Reicher
Frank Reicher
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Sarah Padden (106 films)

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Actress

Screaming Mimi, 1h19
Directed by Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Anita Ekberg, Philip Carey, Gypsy Rose Lee, Harry Townes, Romney Brent, Vaughn Taylor
Roles Landlady
Rating57% 2.8959552.8959552.8959552.8959552.895955
In the opening scene set in Southern California, while Virginia Wilson (Anita Ekberg) is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from the sanitarium shows up. He stabs her dog, Rusty [Devil was the name of her second dog], attacks her and is then shot to death by her stepbrother, Charlie, with a rifle.
No Time for Sergeants, 1h59
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Théâtre, Transport films, Aviation films, Films based on plays, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Andy Griffith, Myron McCormick, Nick Adams, Murray Hamilton, Howard Smith, Howard Smith
Roles La mère du sergent King
Rating74% 3.7458353.7458353.7458353.7458353.745835
Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a backward, backwoods rube from outside Callville, Georgia who may or may not be smarter than he looks. Accused by Mr. McKinney (Dub Taylor) the head of the draft board of being a draft dodger, it turns out that Stockdale's draft notices have been hidden from him by his father, who doesn't want the boy to leave home and be ridiculed. His father tells Will to be careful going to big cities like Macon and Atlanta. Pa Stockdale says he has been to those cities many years before and he was ridiculed.
The Kettles in the Ozarks, 1h21
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Richard Deacon, Dave O'Brien
Roles Mrs. Tinware
Rating63% 3.194123.194123.194123.194123.19412
With Pa out of the way, Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
Prince of Players, 1h42
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television, Children's films
Actors Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Sellars
Roles Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.342343.342343.342343.342343.34234
Edwin "Ned" Booth (Richard Burton) is the son of the noted thespian Junius Brutus Booth and the older brother of another actor, John Wilkes Booth. Beginning In 1848, as a boy, and into early manhood, he travels with and assists Junius, who is often drunk and seems at times on the brink of madness.
Big Jim McLain, 1h30
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors John Wayne, Nancy Olson, James Arness, Alan Napier, Veda Ann Borg, Hans Conried
Roles Mrs. Lexiter
Rating51% 2.553182.553182.553182.553182.55318
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
House by the River, 1h24
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Kathleen Freeman, Ann Shoemaker
Roles Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook
Rating69% 3.495423.495423.495423.495423.49542
A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming following a drunken pass. The writer, with the help of his limping brother, loads the body into an old sack and the pair throws the body into the river. Unfortunately, the body comes back up and floats by the house days later. Despite desperate attempts by the brothers to get the body, the police end up recovering it.
A Life of Her Own, 1h48
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Louis Calhern, Ann Dvorak, Barry Sullivan, Tom Ewell
Roles Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0969553.0969553.0969553.0969553.096955
Lily Brannel James leaves her small home town in Kansas for New York City, and she is hired by the Thomas Caraway Model Agency. She befriends former top model Mary Ashlon, who becomes her mentor. Mary is depressed about her foundering career and, following a night of excessive drinking, she commits suicide.
The Return of the Whistler, 1h
Directed by D. Ross Lederman
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane, Ann Shoemaker, Sarah Padden, Ann Doran, Eddy Waller
Roles Mrs. Hulskamp
Rating62% 3.141873.141873.141873.141873.14187
Ted's (Michael Duane) car breaks down in a small town. He leaves his fiancee Alice (Lenore Aubert) at a hotel while he goes to the next town to get his car fixed. When he returns the next morning, she is missing. He requests to speak with the night clerk who tells him she checked out 30 minutes after he left the night before. He has a slight altercation with the night clerk at which point the police are summoned. The police do not suspect foul play and ask Ted to leave the hotel. When he leaves, a private detective, Gaylord Traynor (Richard Lane) follows him and offers his services to locate Ted's fiancee. On the drive back to the city and Ted's apartment, Ted tells Mr. Taynor the story of how they met and Mr. Traynor implies Ted has been conned. When they arrive at Ted's apartment all of Alice's belongings are still there. Ted gives Mr. Traynor a picture of Alice and finds her marriage certificate. Mr. Taynor knocks out Ted, steals the marriage certificate and leaves. It seems that Mr. Traynor was working for Mr. Barkley to find Alice and retrieve the marriage certificate.
Possessed
Possessed (1947)
, 1h48
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, Moroni Olsen
Roles M Norris
Rating70% 3.547263.547263.547263.547263.54726
A woman (Joan Crawford) is found wandering Los Angeles, unable to say anything other than "David". Admitted to a hospital, she is coaxed into recounting her life.
Ramrod
Ramrod (1947)
, 1h35
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp, Preston Foster, Arleen Whelan
Roles Mrs. Parks
Rating66% 3.3444853.3444853.3444853.3444853.344485
Connie Dickason (Veronica Lake) is the strong-willed daughter of a ranch owner (Charles Ruggles), who is under the control of powerful local cattleman Frank Ivey (Preston Foster), a man her father once wanted Connie to marry. Connie instead takes up with a sheep rancher who is run out of town by Ivey. She inherits the man's land.
Love and Learn, 1h23
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, Otto Kruger, Barbara Brown
Roles Mrs. Grant (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0486053.0486053.0486053.0486053.048605
Angel on My Shoulder, 1h40
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Erskine Sanford, Onslow Stevens, James Flavin
Roles Agatha (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.396033.396033.396033.396033.39603
After his release from prison, gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) is killed by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams (Hardie Albright). Kagle ends up in Hell, where "Nick" (Claude Rains) offers him a chance to escape hell and avenge his own death in exchange for help with a problem. Kagle looks exactly like Judge Frederick Parker, an upright man who is causing Nick distress because he is entirely too honest. Nick fears that Parker may cause him more anxiety in future, as he is running for governor of his state. Nick wants to destroy Parker's reputation and Kagle readily agrees to have his soul transferred into Parker's body.
My Dog Shep, 1h9
Directed by Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Neal, William Farnum, Russell Simpson, Sarah Padden, Craig Reynolds, Al St. John
Roles Carrie Hodgkins
Rating60% 3.005733.005733.005733.005733.00573