Jessie Royce Landis

Nov 25, 1896 - Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jessie Royce Landis (born Jessie Medbury; November 25, 1896 – February 2, 1972) was an American actress. Her name is also seen as Jesse Royce-Landis. She remains perhaps best-known for her mother roles in the Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959).

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Movie	1959	North by Northwest	Clara Thornhill
Movie	1955	To Catch a Thief	Jessie Stevens
Movie	1970	Airport	Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Movie	1953	Main Street to Broadway	Self (uncredited)
Movie	1962	Boys' Night Out	Ethel Williams
Movie	1956	The Swan	Princess Beatrix
Movie	1957	My Man Godfrey	Angelica Bullock
Movie	1961	Goodbye Again	Mrs. Van der Besh
Movie	1949	Mr. Belvedere Goes to College	Mrs. Chase
Movie	1963	Critic's Choice	Charlotte Orr aka Charlie
Movie	1962	Bon Voyage!	Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne
Movie	1958	I Married a Woman	Mrs. Blake
Movie	1971	Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones	Grandmother Greher
Movie	1956	The Girl He Left Behind	Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer
Movie	1950	Mother Didn't Tell Me	Mrs. Wright
Movie	1959	A Private's Affair	Elizabeth T. Chapman
Movie	1930	Derelict	Helen Lorber
Movie	1950	My Foolish Heart	Martha Winters
Movie	1949	It Happens Every Spring	Mrs. Greenleaf
Movie	1963	Gidget Goes to Rome	Albertina Blythe
Movie	1987	Grace Kelly: The American Princess	Self (archive footage)
Movie	1970	The Ceremony of Innocence	Queen Mother Alfreda
Movie	1952	Meet Me Tonight	Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")
TV Show	1967	Ironside		2
TV Show	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Claire Crane	1
TV Show	1960	Thriller	Mrs. Kilburn	1
TV Show	1954	Climax!	Olivia Chesney	1
TV Show	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Madame Vachet	1
TV Show	1971	Columbo	Mrs. Chadwick	1
TV Show	1964	Valentine's Day	Mrs. Edwina Pierce	1
TV Show	1953	The United States Steel Hour		1

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