Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
11/21/1874
Place of Birth
Savannah, Tennessee, USA
Also Known As
Mary Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Elizabeth Patterson (November 22, 1874 – January 31, 1966) was an American theatre, film, and television character actress who gained popular recognition late in her career playing the elderly neighbor Matilda Trumbull on the television comedy series I Love Lucy.
In 1926, at the age of 51, Patterson was cast in her first movie, a silent film, The Boy Friend. Transitioning successfully into the era of "talkies", she remained a very busy actress in Hollywood throughout the 1930s, averaging more than five films a year during that decade, usually in sup...
Known For
Little Women
as Hannah
Washington Story
as Miss Dee
The Cat and the Canary
as Aunt Susan
Life Begins
as Mrs. Tubby (uncredited)
Chasing Yesterday
as Mlle. Prefere
Tobacco Road
as Ada Lester
Pal Joey
as Mrs. Casey
Together Again
as Jessie
Bright Leaf
as Tabitha Singleton
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. MacGregor
The Expert
as Miss Crackenwald
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
as Catherine Dennison
Doctor Bull
as Aunt Patricia Banning
So Big!
as Mrs. Tebbit (uncredited)
Lucky Legs
as Annabelle Dinwiddie
Miss Pinkerton
as Juliet Mitchell
Belle Starr
as Sarah
Tarnished Lady
as Mrs. Courtney
Golden Harvest
as Lydia
Man Wanted
as Miss Harper
Career Timeline
1959
1958
1955
1952
1950
1949
1947
1946
1944
1942
1941
1940
1939
1938
1937
1936
1935
1933
1932
No Man of Her Own
as Mrs. Randall
Boo
as Susan (edited from "The Cat Creeps")
They Call It Sin
as Mrs. Cullen
Breach of Promise
as Cora Pugmire
A Bill of Divorcement
as Aunt Hester Fairfield
Life Begins
as Mrs. Tubby (uncredited)
Love Me Tonight
as First Aunt
Guilty as Hell
as Elvira Ward
New Morals for Old
as Aunty Doe
Miss Pinkerton
as Juliet Mitchell
So Big!
as Mrs. Tebbit (uncredited)
Man Wanted
as Miss Harper
The Expert
as Miss Crackenwald