Cast & creator
Mona Washbourne
Best known for Play for Today, Matinee Theater, ITV Playhouse
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mona Lee Washbourne (27 November 1903 – 15 November 1988) was an English actress of stage, film, and television. Her most critically acclaimed role was in the film Stevie (1978), late in her career, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award. Mona Washbourne was born in Solihull, Warwickshire and began her entertaining career training as a concert pianist. In 1948, after several years acting professionally on stage, and numerous stage musical performances, she began appearing in films. Her film credits include the horror movie The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Liar (1963), and The Collector (1965). She is probably best known to American audiences for her role as housekeeper Mrs. Pearce in My Fair Lady (1964). She also appeared as the stern and caustic Mrs. Bramson in the remake of Night Must Fall (also 1964), and the matron in the film If.... (1968). She appeared at both the Royal Court Theatre in London and on Broadway in 1970 in David Storey's Home. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. In 1975 she appeared on the West End stage with James Stewart in a revival of Mary Chase's play Harvey, in the role originally taken by Josephine Hull. Washbourne won the 1981 New York Film Critics' Circle Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Stevie (1978). In 1981 Washbourne appeared in Granada Television's TV miniseries adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited as Nanny Hawkins. One of her last television appearances was in Where's the Key? (1983), a BBC play about Alzheimer's disease. Mona Washbourne was married to actor Basil Dignam (1905-1979), whom she wed in 1940. She died in 1988, aged 84, in London.
Also known as: Mona Lee Washbourne, Мона Уошборн
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1948–1984 · acting roles
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Filmography (77)
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Play for Today
1970
Matinee Theater
1955
ITV Playhouse
Julia Pyrton
1967ITV Playhouse
Mary
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Mrs. Hudson
1965
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Mrs. Fumble
1969
Centre Play
Hilda
1973
The Wonderful World of Disney
Aunt Lydia
1954
Brideshead Revisited
Nanny Hawkins
1981
Casino Royale
Tea Lady (uncredited)
1967
My Fair Lady
Mrs. Pearce
1964
Six Days of Justice
Chairman of the Bench
1972
Wicked Women
Mama
1970
The Brides of Dracula
Helga Lang
1960
Armchair Theatre
Harriet
1956
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Ethel Duckworth
1977
Knight Errant Limited
Miss Mathilda Lawson-Hardy
1959
Shillingbury Tales
Marjorie Cavendish
1981
The Million Pound Note
Mum with Pram
1954
The Collector
Aunt Annie
1965Celebrity Playhouse
Mrs. Pearce
1981
Therese Raquin
Madame Raquin
1980
O Lucky Man!
Neighbour / Usher / Sister Hallett
1973
Where's the Key?
Mother
1983
Betrayed
Waitress (uncredited)
1954
The Bed Sitting Room
Mother
1969
if....
Matron
1968
The Blue Bird
Grandmother
1976
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mrs. Jarley
1975
Doctor in the House
Midwifery Sister (uncredited)
1954
Count Your Blessings
Nanny
1959
Billy Liar
Alice Fisher
1963Probation Officer
Mrs. Mead
1950
Yield to the Night
Mrs. Thomas, landlady
1956
The Winslow Boy
Miss Barnes
1948
Identikit
Mrs. Helen Fiedke
1974
No Love for Johnnie
Well-wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
1961
Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story
Queen Mother
1982
Cast a Dark Shadow
Monica Bare
1955
Fragment of Fear
Mrs. Gray
1970
To Dorothy, a Son
Midwife Appleby
1954
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Mrs. Brown
1968
Pygmalion
Mrs. Pearce
1981
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
Mrs. Jarley
1970
The Games
Mrs. Hayes
1970
The Gambler and the Lady
Miss Minter
1952
Home
Kathleen
1972
It's Great to be Young!
Miss Merrow, a School Mistress
1956
What Became of Jack and Jill?
Gran Alice Tallent
1972
John and Julie
Miss Rendlesham
1955
A Cry from the Streets
Mrs. Daniels
1958
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Aunt Lil
1965
Adventure in the Hopfields
Mrs. McBain
1954
Lost
Librarian
1956
One Way Pendulum
Aunt Mildred
1965I Spy a Stranger
Mrs. Hudson
1972
Night Must Fall
Mrs. Bramson
1964
Johnny on the Run
Mrs MacGregor
1953
The Third Day
Catherine Parsons
1965
Adam and Evelyne
Mrs. Salop, Lady Gambler (uncredited)
1949Son of a Stranger
1958
Once Upon a Dream
Vicar's Wife
1949
The Good Companions
Mrs. Joe
1957
Two a Penny
1967
December Flower
Mary Grey
1984
Double Confession
Fussy Mother
1950
The London Connection
Aunt Lydia
1979
Loser Takes All
Nurse (uncredited)
1956
Monsieur Ripois
Landlady
1954
Stevie
Aunt
1978
Maytime in Mayfair
Lady Levenson
1949
Operation Stogie
Lady Cormorant
1962Number Ten
Julia Pryton
1968
Stranger in Town
Agnes Smith
1957
Circus Friends
Miss Linstead
1956Dark Interval
1950Poor Mother
Sister
1970