Biography
Hermione Gingold (9 December 1897 – 24 May 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother reportedly encouraged her not to remove. She starred on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. She also appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hermione Gingold, licensed under ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Garbo Talks
1984
as Elizabeth Rennick
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: ...

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984
as Miss Sandwich
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

Amy and the Angel
1982
as Pincus
Amy, a depressed seventeen year old high school girl, is visited by her guardian angel Oliver after wishing she had never been born. Oliver shows Amy ...

Simple Gifts
1977
as Narrator (segment "The Great Frost") (voice)
A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the earl...

A Little Night Music
1977
as Madame Armfeldt
A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress, Desirée Armfeldt, and the men who love her: a lawyer by the name of Fredrik Egerman and the Count C...

That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
as (archive footage)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical num...

Death Brings Roses
1975
as Madame Germaine
Chuck Watts, a fugitive wanted for manslaughter in Kentucky, has been keeping a relatively low profile as an enforcer for Andrew Max, the man who cont...

Tubby the Tuba
1975
as Ms. Squeek (voice)
When Tubby the Tuba sets out to find a melody all of his own, his journey results in this enchanting and exciting musical tale. Tubby joins the circus...

That's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
The Special London Bridge Special
1972
as The Lady Bus Conductor
In 1972, the Arizona State Park bought the London Bridge. Tom Jones (as himself) is magically transported to the bridge's new location where he, befud...

Banyon
1971
as Peggy Revere
Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon'...

Winter of the Witch
1969
as Witch
The life of a witch is disrupted by the arrival of a boy and his mother. The intruders' presence makes her struggle to adjust to the modern world, and...

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
1967
as Angelica
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbi...

Munster, Go Home!
1966
as Lady Effigy Munster
Herman discovers he's the new lord of Munster Hall in England. The family sails to Britain, where they receive a tepid welcome from Lady Effigy and Fr...

Harvey Middleman, Fireman
1965
as Mrs. Koogleman
Harvey Middleman (Eugene Troobnick), a New York fireman, lives a very ordinary life with his wife (Arlene Golonka) and children. After he rescues a be...

I'd Rather Be Rich
1964
as Miss Grimshaw
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet h...

A Cry of Angels
1963
Hallmark presents the story of how the greatest oratorio, George Frederic Handel's "The Messiah," came to be written in the English language.

Gay Purr-ee
1962
as Mme. Rubens-Chatte (voice)
Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and ...

The Music Man
1962
as Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.

The Naked Edge
1961
as Lilly Harris
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the cri...

The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra
1959
as Self - Singer
At the beginning of the program, Peter Lawford explains that Frank Sinatra's plans to film his TV special outdoors in sunny Palm Springs have foundere...

Bell, Book and Candle
1958
as Bianca de Passe
A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real.

Gigi
1958
as Madame Alvarez ("Mamita")
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone f...

Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
as Sporting Lady
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...

Sting of Death
1955
Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Raisin in the Sun, Sybil) . Sidney Silchester, a coll...

Our Girl Friday
1953
as Spinster
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and ...

Cosh Boy
1953
as Queenie
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things...

The Pickwick Papers
1952
as Miss Tompkins
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

The Butler's Dilemma
1943
as Aunt Sophie
Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
Someone at the Door
1936
as Lizzie Appleby
When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally wi...
Dance Pretty Lady
1931
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.