Maude Eburne | |
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Born | Maud Eburne Riggs November 10, 1875 Bronte-on-the-Lake,
Ontario, Canada |
Died | October 15, 1960
Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged 84)
Years active | 1915-1951 |
Spouse |
Eugene J. Hall
(
m. 1905; died 1932) |
Children | 1 |
Maude Eburne (born Maud Eburne Riggs, November 10, 1875 – October 15, 1960) was a Canadian character actress of stage and screen, known for playing eccentric roles.
Eburne was born the daughter of John and Mary Riggs, [1] in Bronte-on-the-Lake, Ontario. She studied elocution in Toronto.
The death of Eburne's father in 1901 was a catalyst for her entry into acting as a profession. She said that he would not have approved a stage career for her and added, "If my father knew I was on the stage, he would not rest in peace." [1]
Eburne began her career in stock theater in Buffalo, New York. [2] Her early theater work was in Ontario[ citation needed] and New York City, debuting on Broadway to great acclaim as "Coddles" in the 1914 farce A Pair of Sixes. [3] "When I first came to New York... I said I didn't want to be beautiful young girls or stately leading women, but wanted parts that had something queer in them, especially if there were dialect." [4]
She continued to play mainly humorous domestic roles on stage, appearing in productions such as The Half Moon (1920), Lady Butterfly (1923), Three Cheers (1928) and Many a Slip (1930), [5] before her first significant film role — and first sound film role — [1] in The Bat Whispers (1930), director Roland West's sound remake of his 1926 silent feature The Bat.
Eugene J. Hall married Eburne "in about 1905". They had a daughter, Marion Birdseye Hall, in 1907. [1] He died in 1932. [6]
Eburne retired in 1951.
Eburne died on October 15, 1960, in Hollywood, California, [1] at age 84.
Eburne's more than 100 films include: