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Actor Born: May 16, 1882 in Scotland, UK Death: August 23, 1963 in Pasadena, CA Biography:Diminutive Scottish stage and screen actress "Mary Gordon" was seemingly placed on this earth to play care-worn mothers, charwomen and housekeepers. In films from the silent area (watch for her towards the end of the 1928 "Joan Crawford" feature "Our Dancing Daughters"), Gordon played roles ranging from silent one-scene bits to full-featured support. She frequently acted with "Laurel" and "Hardy", most prominently as the stern Scots innkeeper Mrs. Bickerdyke in 1935's "Bonnie Scotland". Gordon was also a favorite of director "John Ford", portraying Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Englishwomen with equal aplomb (and sometimes with the same accent). She was the screen mother of actors as diverse as "Jimmy Cagney", "Leo Gorcey" and "Lou Costello"; she parodied this grey-haired matriarch image in Olsen and "Johnson"'s "See My Lawyer" (1945), wherein her tearful court testimony on behalf of her son (Ed... Full Biography
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