Acting credits
103
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Esther Dale
Acting
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Movies: 94Series: 9
TMDB ID: 34268
IMDb ID: nm0197689
Known for: Acting
Born: November 10, 1885
Died: July 23, 1961
Age: 75
Place of birth: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1934 - 1960
Years active: 27
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q3058964
Also known as
Ester Dale
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Esther Dale (November 10, 1885 – July 23, 1961) was an American actress, best known perhaps for her role as Aunt Genevieve in the 1935 Shirley Temple vehicle, Curly Top. On the stage, Dale starred in Carrie Nation on Broadway in 1933. Her other Broadway credits include Harvest of Years (1947), And Be My Love (1944), and Another Language (1932). Dale's first film was Crime Without Passion (1934) in an uncredited role. She was a familiar face in films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, frequently playing stern, authoritarian characters such as prison matrons and head nurses, although she was equally adept at playing grande dames and ladies of the aristocracy. Dale played many roles in television over the years. In the 1958-1959 season of The Donna Reed Show, Dale played a job-seeking housekeeper who is frightened from the Stone home by Jeff Stone's pet mouse, and she appeared in the 1957 Maverick episode "According to Hoyle" opposite James Garner.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Esther Dale.
6.5
North to Alaska
as Woman at Picnic
1960 Movie
6.6
The Sound and the Fury
as Mrs. Maud Mansfield
1959 Movie
5.6
The Oklahoman
as Mrs. Fitzgerald
1957 Movie
4.7
Betrayed Women
as Head Matron Ballard
1955 Movie
7.3
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
as Birdie Hicks
1955 Movie
A Tale of Two Cities
as Pross
1953 Movie
6.7
Monkey Business
as Mrs. Rhinelander
1952 Movie
6.4
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
as Birdie Hicks
1952 Movie
4.8
Too Young to Kiss
as Mrs. Boykin
1951 Movie
6.3
On Moonlight Bay
1951 Movie
5.0
Walk Softly, Stranger
as Miss Thompson
1950 Movie
4.4
Surrender
as Aunt May
1950 Movie
6.9
No Man of Her Own
as Josie
1950 Movie
6.9
Holiday Affair
as Mrs. Ennis
1949 Movie
7.1
Ma and Pa Kettle
as Mrs. Birdie Hicks
1949 Movie
6.3
A Song Is Born
as Miss Bragg
1948 Movie
6.0
The Unfinished Dance
as Olga
1947 Movie
7.1
The Egg and I
as Birdie Hicks
1947 Movie
6.9
Margie
as Grandma McSweeney
1946 Movie
5.2
Smoky
as Mrs. 'Gram' Richards
1946 Movie
6.4
A Stolen Life
as Mrs. Johnson
1946 Movie
7.1
My Reputation
as Anna
1946 Movie
Behind City Lights
as Sarah Lowell
1945 Movie
On Stage Everybody
as Ma Cassidy
1945 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Esther Dale.
6.6
Thriller
as Ellen the Maid • 1 eps
1960 Series
6.0
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1 eps
1959 Series
6.2
Lock-Up
1 eps
1959 Series
6.4
The Donna Reed Show
1 eps
1958 Series
6.9
Maverick
as Ma Braus • 1 eps
1957 Series
5.2
M Squad
as Julia Sheldon • 1 eps
1957 Series
6.0
December Bride
1 eps
1954 Series
4.3
Mr. & Mrs. North
1 eps
1952 Series
3.5
Cavalcade of America
as Aunt Tabitha • 1 eps
1952 Series