Cast & creator
Merle Oberon
Best known for What's My Line?, Four Star Playhouse, Four Star Playhouse
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Sri Lankan Burgher origin. Her career spanned the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article Merle Oberon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Also known as: Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson
60
film credits
16
television credits
75
1928–2028 · acting roles
6.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (76)
Showing 76 of 76 credits
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Four Star Playhouse
Martha
1952Four Star Playhouse
Margot Sterling
1952Four Star Playhouse
Carol
1952
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
The Oscars
Self
1953
Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host
1953Letter to Loretta
Self - Guest Host / Lucille
1953
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Self
1951
The DuPont Show of the Week
Self
1961
Wuthering Heights
Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
1939
General Electric Theater
Mata Hari
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Self - Host / Marian Thorne
1951
Deep in My Heart
Dorothy Donnelly
1954
Forever and a Day
Marjorie Ismay
1943
The Oscar
Merle Oberon
1966Assignment Foreign Legion
1956
The Divorce of Lady X
Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
1938
The Cowboy and the Lady
Mary Smith
1938
The Private Life of Henry VIII
Anne Boleyn
1933
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Self
1936
Désirée
Empress Josephine
1954
Berlin Express
Lucienne Mirbeau
1948
Folies Bergère de Paris
Opera Singer (umcredited)
1935
Stage Door Canteen
Merle Oberon
1943
This Love of Ours
Karin Touzac
1945
A Song to Remember
George Sand
1945
Affectionately Yours
Sue Mayberry
1941
The Lodger
Kitty Langley
1944Ebb Tide
(uncredited)
1932
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
Self (archive footage)
2028
Churchill and the Movie Mogul
Self (archive footage)
2019
'Til We Meet Again
Joan Ames
1940
Hollywood Goes to Town
Self
1938
The Private Life of Don Juan
Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
1934
Hotel
The Duchess Caroline
1967
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Lady Marguerite Blakeney
1934
Beloved Enemy
Helen Drummond
1936
Fascination
Flower Seller
1931
Of Love and Desire
Katherine Beckmann
1963
The Price of Fear
Jessica Warren
1956
That Uncertain Feeling
Jill Baker
1941
Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Elizabeth Rockwell
1952
The Dark Angel
Kitty Vane
1935
All Is Possible in Granada
Margaret Faulson
1954
The Lion Has Wings
Mrs. Richardson
1939
Over the Moon
Jane Benson
1939
I, Claudius
Messalina
1937
The Epic That Never Was
Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
1969
These Three
Karen Wright
1936
Aren't We All?
Bit Part
1932
Night in Paradise
Delarai
1946
For the Love of Mike
Bit Part
1932
Dark Waters
Leslie Calvin
1944Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
Self
1993
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Linda Venning
1952
Temptation
Ruby
1946
Lydia
Lydia MacMillan
1941
Night Song
Cathy Mallory
1948
Breakdowns of 1940
Self
1940
The Three Passions
Bit Part (uncredited)
1928
Interval
Serena Moore
1973Interval
Producer
1973
The Battle
Mitsuko Yorisaka
1934
Pardon My French
Elizabeth Rockwell
1951
Men of Tomorrow
Ysobel d'Aunay
1932
The Trouble with Merle
Self
2002
First Comes Courage
Nicole Larsen
1943
Wedding Rehearsal
Miss Hutchinson
1932
Service for Ladies
Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
1932
A Warm Corner
Bit Part (uncredited)
1930
Never Trouble Trouble
Minor Role
1931
The Broken Melody
Germaine Brissard
1934