
Hermione Gingold
Highest Rated: 94% The Music Man (1962)
Lowest Rated: 18% A Little Night Music (1977)
Birthday: Dec 9, 1897
Birthplace: London, England, UK
A justly beloved, somewhat bizarre-looking English character player, Hermione Gingold delighted millions with her typically haughty, imperious manner, a slight lisp in her voice and a richly fruity, theatrical line delivery. Gingold most often played middle-aged or elderly, whimsical eccentrics or self-righteous, gorgon-like "pillars" of the community. Though much of her lengthy, distinguished career was spent on the stage, Gingold did spread her legendary, hilarious magic through a number of films, including "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958), as one of a covens of amusing, dotty witches, and "The Music Man" (1962), as a commanding, small-town dragon of a matron who stages a human sculpture as an "Ode to a Grecian Urn."






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Filmography
Movies
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57% | 50% | Garbo Talks | Elizabeth Rennick (Character) | - | 1984 |
18% | 30% | A Little Night Music | Mme. Armfeldt (Character) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tubby the Tuba | Miss Squeek (Voice) | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Brings Roses | Madame Germaine (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Banyon | Peggy Revere (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 7% | Those Fantastic Flying Fools | Angelica (Character) | - | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 70% | Munster, Go Home | Lady Effigie Munster (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 28% | Promise Her Anything | Mrs. Luce (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harvey Middleman, Fireman | Mrs. Koogleman (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | 67% | I'd Rather Be Rich | Miss Grimshaw (Character) | - | 1964 |
60% | 78% | Gay Purr-ee | Mme. Rubens-Chatte (Voice) | - | 1962 |
94% | 85% | The Music Man | Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 53% | The Naked Edge | Lilly Harris (Character) | - | 1961 |
88% | 74% | Gigi | Madame Alvarez (Character) | - | 1958 |
75% | 65% | Bell, Book and Candle | Bianca de Passe (Character) | - | 1958 |
71% | 57% | Around the World in 80 Days | Sporting Lady (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Sadie | Spinster (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosh Boy | Queenie (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 33% | Pickwick Papers | Miss Tompkins (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pickwick Papers | Miss Tompkins (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Butler's Dilemma | Aunt Sophie (Character) | - | 1943 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1959 1963 1972-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love, American Style | Unknown (Character) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
10% | No Score Yet | The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1959 1963 |
No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Miss Hope (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1960 |