Margaret Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress.
Wycherley was born in London, England of American parents. She was married to writer Bayard Veiller (1869-1943) in 1901. They had a son Anthony Veiller (1903-1965).
She was primarily a stage actress, appearing in a few silent films but she got her first featured film role in Sergeant York in 1941. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Ac...
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Margaret Wycherly (26 October 1881 – 6 June 1956) was an English stage and film actress.
Wycherley was born in London, England of American parents. She was married to writer Bayard Veiller (1869-1943) in 1901. They had a son Anthony Veiller (1903-1965).
She was primarily a stage actress, appearing in a few silent films but she got her first featured film role in Sergeant York in 1941. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Mother York, though perhaps her best remembered screen role was as "Ma Jarrett", the mother of the psychopathic gangster Cody Jarrett, in White Heat (1949), which famously starred James Cagney.
Wycherly starred in several popular Broadway plays, including Tobacco Road, Random Harvest, Liliom, Six Characters in Search of an Author and The Thirteenth Chair (which role she reprised in the film of the same name).
Wycherly's other films include Keeper of the Flame, The Yearling, and Forever Amber.
Wycherley died in New York...
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