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Mary Wickes
Highest Rated: 94% The Music Man (1962)
Lowest Rated: 18% Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Birthday: Jun 13, 1910
Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
A tall, lanky character actress, Wickes was a durable and invaluable comedy player of innumerable housekeepers, nurses and nuns. With her gawky frame, deliciously angular features and famous recessed chin, she wisecracked, busybodied and nosed her way through almost 20 Broadway plays, hundreds of stock productions, ten TV series, countless small-screen guest spots and nearly 50 feature films. Wickes began on stage in the early 1930s and acted in five plays either written or directed by George S. Kaufman. Her breakthrough came when she hilariously played Miss Preen, the endlessly harassed nurse to the vituperative Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) in Kaufman and Hart's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939-40). Wickes later recreated her most famous role as her film debut in 1941, in a radio production starring Fred Allen and in a 1972 TV version with Orson Welles.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71% | 70% | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Laverne (Voice) | $100.1M | 1996 |
| 92% | 84% | Little Women | Aunt March (Character) | $48.8M | 1994 |
| 18% | 61% | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit | Sister Mary Lazarus (Character) | $57.0M | 1993 |
| 75% | 65% | Sister Act | Sister Mary Lazarus (Character) | $139.6M | 1992 |
| 83% | 66% | Postcards From the Edge | Grandma (Character) | $36.9M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Dowling Mysteries: The Missing Body Mystery | Marie Murkin (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery | Marie Murkin (Character) | - | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | The Christmas Gift | Henrietta Sawyer (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Canterville Ghost | Mrs. Umney (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Touched by Love | Margaret (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Willa | Eunice (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lucy Calls the President | Millie Baker (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Napoleon and Samantha | Clerk (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Nurse (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows | Sister Clarissa (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Spirit Is Willing | Gloria Tritt (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 75% | 85% | The Trouble With Angels | Sister Clarissa (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 33% | 70% | Dear Heart | Miss Fox (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 40% | 67% | Fate Is the Hunter | Mrs. Llewlyn (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 94% | 85% | The Music Man | Mrs. Squires (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | The Sins of Rachel Cade | Marie Grieux (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Cimarron | Mrs. Neal Hefner (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | It Happened to Jane | Matilda Runyon (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Don't Go Near the Water | Janie (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Dance With Me Henry | Miss Mayberry (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Destry | Bessie Mae Curtis (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Good Morning, Miss Dove | Miss Lorraine Ellwood (Character) | - | 1955 |
| 77% | 88% | White Christmas | Emma Allen (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Half a Hero | Mrs. Watts (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 60% | 51% | The Actress | Emma Glavey (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | By the Light of the Silvery Moon | Stella (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 11% | Young Man With Ideas | Mrs. Jarvis Gilpin (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | On Moonlight Bay | Stella (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Petty Girl | Prof. Whitman (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anna Lucasta | Stella (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | June Bride | Rosemary McNally (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Decision of Christopher Blake | Clara (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Higher and Higher | Sandy Brooks (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Kingdom for a Cook | Agnes Willoughby (Character) | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Who Done It? | Juliet Collins (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 91% | 90% | Now, Voyager | Nurse Dora Pickford (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Private Buckaroo | Bonnie-Belle Schlopkiss (Character) | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blondie's Blessed Event | Sarah Miller (Character) | - | 1942 |
| 86% | 81% | The Man Who Came to Dinner | Nurse Preen (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Too Much Johnson | Mrs. Upton Battison (Character) | - | 1938 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Camomile Lawn | Writer | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Highway to Heaven | Minnie (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Punky Brewster | Mrs. Dempsey (Guest Star) | 1984 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981-1982 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tabitha | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977-1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Match Game | Self | 1976-1977 |
| 100% | 85% | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here's Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969-1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanford and Son | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Columbo | Landlady (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Julia | Unknown (Character) | 1968 1970-1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | F Troop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Miss Brink (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mrs. G. Goes To College | Maxfield (Character) | 1961-1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Sally Bearclaw (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zorro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Blanche Armstaedter (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Sally Brass (Character) | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Madame Lamond (Guest Star) | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1949 |