Biography
Canadian born Lucile Watson was a stage, screen, and television actress in America.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...
My Forbidden Past
1951
as Aunt Eula Beaurevel
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Let's Dance
1950
as Serena Everett
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and joble...
Harriet Craig
1950
as Celia Fenwick
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
Everybody Does It
1949
as Mrs. Blair
Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to...
Little Women
1949
as Aunt March
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil ...
That Wonderful Urge
1948
as Cornelia Farley
When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely cla...
Julia Misbehaves
1948
as Mrs. Packett
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites ...
The Emperor Waltz
1948
as Princesse Bitotska
At the turn of the 20th century, travelling salesman Virgil Smith journeys to Vienna in the hope he can sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, who...
Ivy
1947
as Mrs. Gretorex
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr. Roger...
The Razor's Edge
1946
as Louisa Bradley
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at...
Song of the South
1946
as Grandmother
Uncle Remus draws upon his tales of Br'er Rabbit to help little Johnny deal with his confusion over his parents' separation as well as his new life on...
Never Say Goodbye
1946
as Mrs. Hamilton
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip star...
Tomorrow Is Forever
1946
as Aunt Jessica Hamilton
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Elizabeth bears John's son and eventually marries her k...
My Reputation
1946
as Mary Kimball
Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own...
The Thin Man Goes Home
1944
as Mrs. Marta Charles
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Till We Meet Again
1944
as Mother Superior
An American pilot is shot down over Nazi-occupied France and is taken to a convent by the Resistance. The young novice nun Clothilde is interested in ...
Uncertain Glory
1944
as Mme. Maret
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the in...
Watch on the Rhine
1943
as Fanny Farrelly
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sar...
Model Wife
1941
as J. J. Benson
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
The Great Lie
1941
as Aunt Ada Greenfield
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
Footsteps in the Dark
1941
as Agatha Archer
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...
Rage in Heaven
1941
as Mrs. Monrell
A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941
as Mrs. Custler
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T...
Florian
1940
as Countess
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Waterloo Bridge
1940
as Lady Margaret Cronin
On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ...
The Women
1939
as Mrs. Morehead
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Made for Each Other
1939
as Mrs. Harriet Mason
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Sweethearts
1938
as Mrs. Marlowe
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
The Young in Heart
1938
as Mrs. Jennings
A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named Miss Fortune.
Little Me
1938
Three Smart Girls
1936
as Martha
The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and re-unite him w...
A Woman Rebels
1936
as Betty Bumble
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.
The Garden of Allah
1936
as Mother Superior Josephine
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
The Bishop Misbehaves
1935
as Lady Emily Lyons
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester ask...
What Every Woman Knows
1934
as La Contessa la Brierre
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must ma...
The Inventors
1934
as Miss Tiddlebaum
Two men inadvertently create a mechanical menace
The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
as Actress Backstage
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br...