Maud Gill

Known for Acting

1/1/1885

Bayswater, London, England, UK

Biography

Maud Gill was an English stage and screen character actress, usually cast in comic roles.

Known For (14 credits)

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The Two Frightened Ladies

1937

Dramatised short about the advantages of gas appliances in the home, with music.

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Love at Sea

1936

A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.

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Look Up and Laugh

1935

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax.

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Excess Baggage

1933

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Crime at Blossoms

1933

After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.

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Aren't We All?

1932

Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.

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Mischief

1931

When financier Reginald Bingham leaves on a business trip to Paris, normally devoted wife Eleanor leaves for a cottage with a secret boy friend. The couple are followed by friends of her husband, who attempt to hinder the affair. However, Reginald is also tempted by a fling with an old friend in Paris.

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Two Way Street

1931

'Bird fancier's daughter loves nobleman whom her cockney fiancé robs of necklace.' (British Film Catalogue)

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The Chance of a Night Time

1931

Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.

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Such Is the Law

1930

A film directed by Sinclair Hill.

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A Sister to Assist 'Er

1930

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

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Under the Greenwood Tree

1929

A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.