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Mae Marsh was an American film actress with a career spanning over 50 years.
Birth Name
Mary Wayne Marsh
Born
Friday, 09 November 1894
Died
Tuesday, 13 February 1968
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Flora Cameron (clip from The Birth of a Nation (1915)) | 2011 |
| The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' | Self / Flora Cameron | 1993 |
| American Masters | (archive footage) | 1986 |
| Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed | Self / Flora Cameron | 1968 |
| The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
| Cheyenne Autumn | Woman | 1964 |
| Donovan's Reef | Family Council Member | 1963 |
| Two Rode Together | Hanna Clegg | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actress 'Birth of a Nation' | 1961 |
| From the Terrace | Sandy's Governess | 1960 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| These Amazing Shadows | Flora Cameron (clip from The Birth of a Nation (1915)) | 2011 |
| The Making of 'the Birth of a Nation' | Self / Flora Cameron | 1993 |
| American Masters | (archive footage) | 1986 |
| Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed | Self / Flora Cameron | 1968 |
| The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
| Cheyenne Autumn | Woman | 1964 |
| Donovan's Reef | Family Council Member | 1963 |
| Two Rode Together | Hanna Clegg | 1961 |
| Hollywood: The Golden Years | Actress 'Birth of a Nation' | 1961 |
| From the Terrace | Sandy's Governess | 1960 |
| Sergeant Rutledge | Mrs. Nellie Hackett | 1960 |
| Bonanza | Mary | 1959 |
| The Last Hurrah | Mourner at Wake | 1958 |
| Cry Terror! | Television Interviewee | 1958 |
| Wagon Train | Mrs. Jesse Grant | 1957 |
| The Wings of Eagles | Nurse Crumley | 1957 |
| Julie | Hysterical Passenger | 1956 |
| Girls in Prison | 'Grandma' Edwards | 1956 |
| The Searchers | Dark Cloaked Woman at Fort Guarding Deranged Woman | 1956 |
| While the City Sleeps | Mrs. Manners | 1956 |
| Hell on Frisco Bay | Mrs. Cobb - Steve's Landlady | 1955 |
| Good Morning, Miss Dove | Woman in Bank | 1955 |
| The Tall Men | Emigrant | 1955 |
| The Girl Rush | Casino Patron | 1955 |
| Prince of Players | Witch in 'Macbeth' | 1955 |
| A Star Is Born | Malibu Party Guest | 1954 |
| The Robe | Jerusalem Woman Aiding Demetrius | 1953 |
| A Blueprint for Murder | Anna Swenson - Lynne's Housekeeper / Anna Swenson (Uncredited) | 1953 |
| Powder River | Townswoman | 1953 |
| Titanic | Woman to Whom Norman Gave His Seat | 1953 |
| The Sun Shines Bright | G.A.R. Woman at the Ball / GAR Woman at the Ball | 1953 |
| Night Without Sleep | Maid / Maid (Uncredited) | 1952 |
| The Quiet Man | Father Paul's Mother | 1952 |
| The Model and the Marriage Broker | Sharon Springs Resident | 1951 |
| The Jackpot | Mrs. Woodruff in Photo | 1950 |
| My Blue Heaven | Maid | 1950 |
| The Gunfighter | Mrs. O'Brien | 1950 |
| When Willie Comes Marching Home | Mrs. Clara Fettles | 1950 |
| Everybody Does It | Harris / Higgins - the Borlands' Maid | 1949 |
| The Fighting Kentuckian | Sister Hattie | 1949 |
| It Happens Every Spring | Greenleaf's Maid | 1949 |
| Impact | Mrs. King | 1949 |
| A Letter to Three Wives | Miss Jenkins | 1949 |
| 3 Godfathers | Mrs. Perley Sweet | 1948 |
| The Snake Pit | Tommy's Mother | 1948 |
| The Walls of Jericho | Mourner Offering Condolences | 1948 |
| Deep Waters | Molly Thatcher | 1948 |
| Green Grass of Wyoming | Race Spectator | 1948 |
| Fort Apache | Mrs. Gates / Officer's Wife | 1948 |
| Daisy Kenyon | Woman Leaving Apartment | 1947 |
| Thunder in the Valley | Flower Vendor | 1947 |
| Mother Wore Tights | Resort Guest | 1947 |
| Miracle on 34th Street | Woman in Santa Line | 1947 |
| The Late George Apley | Dressmaker | 1947 |
| My Darling Clementine | Simpson's Sister | 1946 |
| Smoky | Parade Spectator | 1946 |
| Johnny Comes Flying Home | Bus Passenger | 1946 |
| Leave Her to Heaven | Fisherwoman | 1945 |
| The Dolly Sisters | Annie | 1945 |
| State Fair | Ring-Toss Spectator | 1945 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Tynmore Sister | 1945 |
| In the Meantime, Darling | Emma | 1944 |
| Sweet and Low-Down | Apartment House Tenant | 1944 |
| Buffalo Bill | Arcade Customer | 1944 |
| The Fighting Sullivans | Neighbor of Mrs. Griffin | 1944 |
| Jane Eyre | Leah | 1943 |
| The Song of Bernadette | Madame Blanche - Townswoman | 1943 |
| Paris After Dark | Member of the Resistance | 1943 |
| Jitterbugs | Susan's Mother in Photo | 1943 |
| Tonight We Raid Calais | French Townswoman | 1943 |
| The Moon Is Down | Villager | 1943 |
| Dixie Dugan | Mrs. Sloan | 1943 |
| The Meanest Man in the World | Old Lady | 1943 |
| Quiet Please: Murder | Miss Hartwig | 1942 |
| It's Everybody's War | Mrs. Stone | 1942 |
| The Man in the Trunk | Mrs. Inge | 1942 |
| The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe | Mrs. Phillips | 1942 |
| Just Off Broadway | Autograph Seeker | 1942 |
| Tales of Manhattan | Molly (Robinson sequence) | 1942 |
| It Happened in Flatbush | Aunt Mae, Team Co-Owner | 1942 |
| Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake | Mrs. Purdy | 1942 |
| Right to the Heart | Minor Role | 1942 |
| Blue, White and Perfect | Mrs. Bertha Toby | 1942 |
| Remember the Day | Teacher | 1941 |
| Swamp Water | Mrs. McCord | 1941 |
| How Green Was My Valley | Miner's Wife | 1941 |
| Great Guns | Aunt Martha | 1941 |
| Belle Starr | Preacher's Wife | 1941 |
| For Beauty's Sake | Night Manager | 1941 |
| The Cowboy and the Blonde | Office Worker | 1941 |
| Tobacco Road | County Clerk's Assistant | 1941 |
| Young People | Maria Liggett | 1940 |
| Four Sons | Townswoman | 1940 |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Muley's Wife | 1940 |
| The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | Mrs. Stetson | 1940 |
| Swanee River | Mrs. Jonathan Fry | 1940 |
| Drums Along the Mohawk | Pioneer Woman | 1939 |
| Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence | Extra as Empire State Building Tourist / Empire State Building Tourist | 1939 |
| Hollywood Boulevard | Carlotta Blakeford | 1936 |
| Black Fury | Mrs. Mary Novak | 1935 |
| Bachelor of Arts | Mrs. Mary Barth | 1934 |
| Little Man, What Now? | Wife of Karl Goebbler | 1934 |
| March of the Movies | Self - film clip | 1933 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Sheep | 1933 |
| That's My Boy | Mom Scott / Mother Scott | 1932 |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Aunt Jane | 1932 |
| The Movie Album | Self | 1932 |
| Over the Hill | Ma Shelby | 1931 |
| Life in Hollywood No. 4 | Self | 1927 |
| The Rat | Odile Etrange | 1926 |
| The White Rose | Bessie / Bessie 'Teazie' Williams | 1923 |
| Flames of Passion | Dorothy Hawke | 1922 |
| Nobody's Kid | Mary Cary | 1921 |
| The Little 'Fraid Lady | Cecilia Carne | 1920 |
| The Mother and the Law | The Little Dear One | 1919 |
| Spotlight Sadie | Sadie Sullivan | 1919 |
| The Bondage of Barbara | Barbara Grey | 1919 |
| The Racing Strain | Lucille Cameron | 1918 |
| Hidden Fires | Peggy Murray / Louise Parke | 1918 |
| All Woman | Susan Sweeney | 1918 |
| The Beloved Traitor | Mary Garland | 1918 |
| The Cinderella Man | Marjorie Caner | 1917 |
| Polly of the Circus | Polly | 1917 |
| Intolerance | The Dear One / The Dear One (Modern Story) | 1916 |
| The Little Liar | Maggie | 1916 |
| The Marriage of Molly-O | Molly-O | 1916 |
| A Wild Girl of the Sierras | The Wild Girl | 1916 |
| A Child of the Paris Streets | Julie / The Child-Wife | 1916 |
| Her Shattered Idol | Mae Carter | 1915 |
| The Birth of a Nation | Flora Cameron / Flora Cameron - The Pet Sister | 1915 |
| The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' | The Maid | 1914 |
| The Escape | Jennie Joyce | 1914 |
| Home, Sweet Home | Apple Pie Mary Smith | 1914 |
| The Life of General Villa | American lover | 1914 |
| The Primitive Man | Priscilla Mayhew (Prologue) / Lily White (The Old Days) / Lilywhite | 1914 |
| Judith of Bethulia | Naomi | 1914 |
| The Great Leap: Until Death Do Us Part | Mary Gibbs | 1914 |
| The Battle of Elderbush Gulch | Sally Cameron / Sally Cameron - the First Waif | 1913 |
| The Wanderer | The Other Parents' Daughter, as an Adult | 1913 |
| The Telephone Girl and the Lady | The Telephone Girl | 1913 |
| Three Friends | The Wife's Friend | 1913 |
| The New York Hat | Second Gossip / A Town Gossip | 1912 |
| Brutality | The Young Woman | 1912 |
| The Sands of Dee | Mary | 1912 |
| Man's Genesis | Lillywhite | 1912 |
| An Indian Summer | The Widow's Second Daughter | 1912 |
| The School Teacher and the Waif | Schoolgirl | 1912 |
| Lena and the Geese | The 'Adopted' Daughter | 1912 |
| Home Folks | At Barn Dance | 1912 |
| A Beast at Bay | The Young Woman's Friend | 1912 |
| A Lodging for the Night | First Mexican Couple - the Woman | 1912 |
| The Old Actor | 1912 | |
| The Lesser Evil | The Young Woman's Companion | 1912 |
| Just Like a Woman | In Club | 1912 |
| A Voice from the Deep | On Beach | 1912 |
| Fighting Blood | 1911 | |
| Ramona | 1910 |
