Biography
Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley (13 November 1906 - 19 August 1986) was an English character actress of theatre, film and television. She is the sister of Angela Baddeley, best known for playing Mrs Hudson in the television series 'Upstairs Downstairs'. She died in California following a series of strokes on 19th August 1986.
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Last Leaf
1983
as Mrs. McCleary
An Easter Parable: As lingering pneumonia takes her will to live, a young girl decides that she will die when the last leaf drops from a dying vine ou...
This Girl for Hire
1983
as Edwina Gaylord
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the ...
I Take These Men
1983
as Mrs. Lomax
Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying ...
The Secret of NIMH
1982
as Auntie Shrew (voice)
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, es...
There Goes The Bride
1980
as Daphne Drimond
A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't...
C.H.O.M.P.S.
1979
as Mrs. Flower
A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the b...
South Riding
1974
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
The Black Windmill
1974
as Hetty
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on hi...
The Aristocats
1970
as Madame (voice)
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money...
The Happiest Millionaire
1967
as Mrs. Worth
A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, ...
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
as Miss Irene Chesney
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives c...
Do Not Disturb
1965
as Vanessa Courtwright
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with h...
Marriage on the Rocks
1965
as Jeannie MacPherson
Ad-agency president Dan Edwards goes to Mexico to celebrate his nineteenth wedding anniversary and winds up getting divorced by mistake, whereupon his...
Harlow
1965
as Marie Dressler
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this...
Mary Poppins
1964
as Ellen
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in thei...
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
1964
as Buttercup Grogan
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures ...
Information Received
1961
as Maudie
Drama of an underworld double-cross as a man and woman set a death trap from which only one could possibly escape.
Rag Doll
1961
as Princess
A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers m...
Midnight Lace
1960
as Dora Hammer
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Let's Get Married
1960
as Mrs. O'Grady
A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his confidence with a relationship with a fashion mod...
Expresso Bongo
1959
as Penelope
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation.
After the Show
1959
as Mrs. Liebig
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistr...
Jet Storm
1959
as Mrs. Satterly
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
Room at the Top
1958
as Elspeth
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Women Without Men
1956
as Grace
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model...
Blonde Bait
1956
as Grace, Gran's friend
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is cu...
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954
as Miss Drownder
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when th...
Counterspy
1953
as Madame Del Mar
While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who cla...
Cosh Boy
1953
as Mrs. Collins
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 Mrs. Bardell
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...
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
1952
as Emma Stebbins
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "...
Song of Paris
1952
as Mrs. Ibbetson
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Scrooge
1951
as Mrs. Cratchit
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show ...
There Is Another Sun
1951
as Gypsy Sarah, Fortune-Teller
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, ...
Hell Is Sold Out
1951
as Mme. Louise Menstrier
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951
as Sally Harrowell
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plu...
The Woman in Question
1950
as Mrs. Finch
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions...
Passport to Pimlico
1949
as Edie Randall
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part o...
Dear Mr. Prohack
1949
as Eve Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and...
No Room at the Inn
1948
as Mrs. Waters
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Quartet
1948
as Beatrice Sunbury (segment "The Kite")
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Brighton Rock
1948
as Ida Arnold
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's m...
It Always Rains on Sunday
1947
as Doss, Housekeeper
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Kipps
1941
as Miss Mergle
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
Royal Cavalcade
1935
as Barmaid
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the...
Caste
1930
as Polly Eccles
The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with he...
The Guns of Loos
1928
as Mavis
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s m...