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Eily Malyon

 
Actor: Eily Malyon
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  • Born: Oct 30, 1878 in London, England, UK
  • Died: Sep 26, 1961 in South Pasadena, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '30s-'40s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Romance
  • Career Highlights: Paris Underground
  • First Major Screen Credit: Paris Underground (1945)

Biography

British actress Eily Malyon enjoyed a lucrative Hollywood screen career playing scores of no-nonsense schoolteachers, maids, governesses and maiden aunts. Ideally suited for costume pieces, she was seen in two major Dickens adaptations of the 1930s, playing Sarah Pocket in Great Expectations (1934) and Mrs. Cruncher in Tale of Two Cities (1935). She was also appropriately sinister as Mrs. Barryman in Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and Mrs. Sketcher in Jane Eyre (1943). Eily Malyon's most hissable screen role was maiden Aunt Demetria Riffle in 1939's On Borrowed Time; Aunt Demetria's onerous Victorianism proved so distasteful to Julian Northrup(Lionel Barrymore) and his grandson Pud (Bob Watson) that they literally chose to die rather than submit to her whims. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Eily Malyon
Born Eily S. Lees-Craston
October 30, 1878(1878-10-30)
London, United Kingdom
Died September 26, 1961 (aged 82)
Occupation Character actress
Years active 1930s, 1940s

Eily Malyon (October 30, 1878-September 26, 1961) was a English character actress who was mostly active in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born Eily S. Lees-Craston in London. Her mother Agnes Thomas was also an actress. Malyon specialized in playing older practical character types such as schoolteachers, maids, nurses, nuns, governesses and spinsters, usually in historical dramas and gothic horror films.[1]

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