Marie Ault

Marie Ault (born September 2, 1870 in Wigan as Mary Cragg , † May 9, 1951 in London ) was a British actress.

life and career

The long-time theater actress Marie Ault had been active in British silent films since 1916 and, because of her appearance, was mainly cast in matronly character roles as mother or servant. Probably her best-known role today, she played in Alfred Hitchcock's early work The Tenant as Landlord, who considers her subtenant, played by Ivor Novello , to be a murderer. She had made the crime film The Rat of Soho with Novello two years earlier . During the talkies era, she lost her status as a leading film actress in her country, but remained busy with supporting roles, including in Hitchcock's adventure film Riff Pirates (1939) and as a cook in David Lean's ghost comedy (1945) alongside Rex Harrison . She also starred in some early television films in the 1940s . She last stood in front of the camera as the mother-in-law for the film Cheer the Brave in 1951, the year she died .

Marie Ault, who was married to James Alexander Paterson, died in London at the age of 80.

Filmography (selection)

• 1916: A Kract Affair
• 1923: Woman against woman (Woman to Woman)
• 1925: His second wife  (The Prude's Fall)
• 1925: The Rat of Paris  (The Rat)
• 1926: The Apache  (The Triumph of the Rat)
• 1927: The tenant (The Lodger)
• 1927: Love Fair (Hindle Wakes)
• 1929: Night figures
• 1931: The Speckled Band
• 1939: Reef Pirates (Jamaica Inn)
• 1940: Major Barbara
• 1942: The Missing Million
• 1943: We Dive at Dawn
• 1945: Caesar and Cleopatra (Caesar and Cleopatra)
• 1945: Ghost Comedy (Blithe Spirit)
• 1946: I See a Dark Stranger
• 1946: The Demonic I (Wanted for Murder)
• 1948: Restless Blood (Blanche Fury)
• 1949: The Rival (Madness of the Heart)
• 1951: Cheer the Brave

Web links

• Marie Ault in the Internet Movie Database (English)