Acting credits
55
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.

Acting
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Acting credits
55
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
TMDB popularity
1.7
Low visibility
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TMDB ID: 13965
IMDb ID: nm0707771
Known for: Acting
Born: November 4, 1864
Died: May 30, 1944
Age: 79
Place of birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1919 - 1955
Years active: 37
Average TMDB rating: 6.55
Wikidata: Q441745
Also known as
Jessie Ralph Chambers • Jessie Rolph • Jessie Ralph Patton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Ralph (born Jessie Ralph Chambers, November 5, 1864 – May 30, 1944) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her matronly roles in many classic motion pictures. She was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1864. She made her acting debut in 1880, at the age of sixteen. She made it to Broadway, where George M. Cohan cast her in many of his musicals, but she also excelled at dramatic roles. Although she made her Hollywood debut in 1916, in a motion picture career that would eventually span 25 years, she only became a permanent Hollywood actress in 1933. She was nearly 70 at this time, so her roles were limited to matronly roles, but her expertise at stealing scenes captured the imagination of cinema-goers of the time. Her best-known roles are as Greta Garbo's maid in Camille, as W.C. Fields' battle-axe of a mother-in-law in The Bank Dick, as Myrna Loy's supercilious aunt Katherine in After the Thin Man, and as Nurse Peggotty in David Copperfield. She starred in 55 movies altogether, 52 between 1933 and 1941. Jessie Ralph retired from Hollywood in 1941, after her leg was amputated. She died four years later in her home town of Gloucester at the age of 79. She was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts.



Movie credits linked with Jessie Ralph.
as Duchess of Beltravers
as Mrs. McGuinness
as Mrs. Hermisillo Brunch
as Grandma Brokaw
as Mrs. Van Dyne
as Mama McGann
as Aunt Martha Parker
as Fairy Berylune
as Mrs. Weaver
as Veronica Hudson
as Aunt Minetta
as Mrs. De Witt
as Aunt Tibbie
as Miss Tobias
as Honorine
as Aunt Lucy
as Sheriff Janet Winfield
as Mrs. Kensington-Bly
as Self
as Cuckoo
as The Duchess of Ebley
as Nanine
as Aunt Katherine Forrest
as Evelyn Bennett
Series credits linked with Jessie Ralph.