Jessie Royce Landis

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessie Royce Landis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Cast

North by Northwest

Clara Thornhill

To Catch a Thief

Jessie Stevens

Airport

Harriet DuBarry Mossman

Main Street to Broadway

Self (uncredited)

Boys' Night Out

Ethel Williams

The Swan

Princess Beatrix

My Man Godfrey

Angelica Bullock

Goodbye Again

Mrs. Van der Besh

Mr. Belvedere Goes to College

Mrs. Chase

Critic's Choice

Charlotte Orr aka Charlie

Bon Voyage!

Countessa 'La Comtesse' DuFresne

I Married a Woman

Mrs. Blake

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

Grandmother Greher

The Girl He Left Behind

Mrs. Madeline Shaeffer

Mother Didn't Tell Me

Mrs. Wright

A Private's Affair

Elizabeth T. Chapman

Derelict

Helen Lorber

My Foolish Heart

Martha Winters

It Happens Every Spring

Mrs. Greenleaf

Gidget Goes to Rome

Albertina Blythe

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

Self (archive footage)

The Ceremony of Innocence

Queen Mother Alfreda

Meet Me Tonight

Olive Lloyd Ransome (segment "Ways and Means")