Marie Ault
Born
Emily Cragg

(1870-09-02)2 September 1870
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Died9 May 1951(1951-05-09) (aged 80)
Chelsea, London, England
Years active1891-1951
Spouse
James Alexander Paterson
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(m. 1893)​

Marie Ault (2 September 1870 – 9 May 1951) was a British character actress of stage and film.[1][2]

Biography

Born as Emily Cragg, in Wigan, Lancashire, the daughter of Jane Ann (née Ault) and Thomas Cragg, a plumber by trade. She made her first stage appearance in Babes in the Wood at Lincoln in 1891, touring the provinces for many years in various different productions. She made her debut on the London stage in 1906. Her later theatre work included the original production of Love on the Dole in 1935, as well as the 1941 film version.[3] She married James Alexander Paterson in Dudley, Staffordshire in 1893.

Ault was a star in many British films of the silent era but is most remembered for her role as Daisy Bunting's mother in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.[3] Other notable film work includes the role of Rummy Mitchens in the film of Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941).[4]

She also had bit parts in films such as Jamaica Inn (1939) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).[5]

She died in a nursing home in Chelsea on 9 May 1951.

Selected filmography

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "Marie Ault - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  2. ↑ "Marie Ault". BFI. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Marie Ault - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
  5. ↑ "Marie Ault - Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.

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