Tempe Pigott (2 February 1869 – 6 October 1962) was an Australian silent and sound screen character actress. She was a stage actress in England and Australia, Canada and the United States for a number of years before entering motion pictures. In 1907, she was a member of the Lillian Meyers Dramatic Company which toured Australia; for some years thereafter, she remained in Australia and made a name for herself in the theatre in plays such as ''Nobody's Daughter'' (1911),

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

's '' A Woman of No Importance'' (1912), and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's ''His House in Order'' (1914). She is given one credit for her role as Mrs. Hubbard in Douglas Murray's Broadway stage play, ''Perkins'', which starred Ruth Chatterton, and ran for 23 performances at Henry Miller's Theatre in the fall of 1918. Her silent and sound film appearances were numerous. She is remembered mainly for playing the mother of John McTeague ( Gibson Gowland) in

Erich von Stroheim Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era. H ...

's '' Greed'' (1924) and the landlady Mrs. Hawkins in '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1931). She died at

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in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Selected filmography

* '' The Great Impersonation'' (1921) - Mrs. Unthank * ''The Masked Avenger'' (1922) - Aunt Phoebe Dyer * ''

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'' (1923) - Mrs. Sedley * ''

The Rustle of Silk ''The Rustle of Silk'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Betty Compson. It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1922 novel by writer Cos ...

'' (1923) - Mrs. De Breeze * '' The Dawn of a Tomorrow'' (1924) - Ginney * '' Greed'' (1924) - Mother McTeague * '' The Narrow Street'' (1925) - Aunt Agnes * '' Without Mercy'' (1925) - Madame Gordon * ''

The Lure of the Track ''The Lure of the Track'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Sheldon Lewis, Macklyn Arbuckle, and Dot Farley.McGowan p.159 Cast * Sheldon Lewis * Macklyn Arbuckle * Dot Farley * June Norton * Temp ...

'' (1925) * '' The Black Pirate'' (1926) - Duenna * '' The Midnight Kiss'' (1926) - Grandma Spencer * '' Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927) - Flower Seller (uncredited) * ''

Silk Stockings ''Silk Stockings'' is a musical with a book by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath, and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The musical is loosely based on the Melchior Lengyel story ''Ninotchka'' and the 1939 film adaptation it i ...

'' (1927) - Mrs. Gower * '' Wallflowers'' (1928) - Mrs. Claybourne * '' Road House'' (1928) - Grandma Grayson * '' Seven Days Leave'' (1930) - Mrs. Haggerty * ''Night Work'' (1930) - Flora (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1930) - First Gossip (uncredited) * '' Born to Love'' (1931) - Landlady (uncredited) * '' Devotion'' (1931) - Tibby - The Cook (uncredited) * '' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1931) - Mrs. Hawkins * ''

Murders in the Rue Morgue "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in ''Graham's Magazine'' in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination". C. Auguste Dup ...

'' (1932) - Crone (uncredited) * '' Almost Married'' (1932) * '' American Madness'' (1932) - Mrs. Halligan (uncredited) * ''

If I Had a Million ''If I Had a Million'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code Paramount Pictures, Paramount Studios anthology film starring Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, Jack Oakie, Frances Dee and Charlie Ruggles, among oth ...

'' (1932) - Idylwood Resident (uncredited) * '' Cavalcade'' (1933) - Mrs. Snapper * ''

Oliver Twist ''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...

'' (1933) - Mrs. Corney * ''

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'' (1933) - Woman Looking for Plumbing Department (uncredited) * '' A Study in Scarlet'' (1933) - Mrs. Hudson (uncredited) * '' Man of the Forest'' (1933) - Peg's Friend * ''

Doctor Bull ''Doctor Bull'' is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, based on the James Gould Cozzens novel '' The Last Adam''. Will Rogers portrays a small-town doctor who must deal with a typhoid outbreak in the community. The film ...

'' (1933) - Grandma Banning * '' If I Were Free'' (1933) - Mrs. Gill * ''

Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen ''Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen'' is a 1934 pre-Code American comedy-drama film, starring Dorothea Wieck, Alice Brady, and Baby LeRoy, written by Adela Rogers St. Johns and Jane Storm from a novel and story by Rupert Hughes, and directed by Alexan ...

'' (1934) - Woman Praying In Church (uncredited) * ''

Long Lost Father ''Long Lost Father'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film starring John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray, and Doris Lloyd. It was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack. It was based on a 1933 novel of the same title by the Bri ...

'' (1934) - Mrs. Gamp - The Old Woman * ''

All Men Are Enemies ''All Men Are Enemies'' is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by Lenore J. Coffee. The film stars Helen Twelvetrees, Mona Barrie, Hugh Williams, Herbert Mundin, Henry Stephenson and Walter Byron. T ...

'' (1934) - Tony's Housekeeper (uncredited) * '' Of Human Bondage'' (1934) - Agnes Hollett (uncredited) * ''

One More River ''One More River'' is a 1934 American drama film mystery directed by James Whale. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and starred Colin Clive, Diana Wynyard and stage actress Mrs Patrick Campbell in one of her very few films. Th ...

'' (1934) - Mrs. Purdy * '' The Lemon Drop Kid'' (1934) - Old Lady (uncredited) * ''Flirtation'' (1934) - Flower Woman (uncredited) * '' Limehouse Blues'' (1934) - Maggie (uncredited) * '' Vanessa: Her Love Story'' (1935) - Cake Seller at the Fair (uncredited) * '' The Devil Is a Woman'' (1935) - Tuerta * ''

Bride of Frankenstein ''Bride of Frankenstein'' is a 1935 American science fiction horror film, and the first sequel to Universal Pictures' 1931 film ''Frankenstein''. As with the first film, ''Bride of Frankenstein'' was directed by James Whale starring Boris Kar ...

'' (1935) - Auntie Glutz (uncredited) * '' Werewolf of London'' (1935) - Drunk Woman (uncredited) * ''

Becky Sharp Rebecca "Becky" Sharp, later describing herself as Rebecca, Lady Crawley, is the main protagonist of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–48 novel '' Vanity Fair''. She is presented as a cynical social climber who uses her charms to fascinate a ...

'' (1935) - The Charwoman * ''

Calm Yourself ''Calm Yourself'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by George B. Seitz and written by Arthur Kober. The film stars Robert Young, Madge Evans, Betty Furness, Ralph Morgan, Nat Pendleton and Hardie Albright. The film was released on June ...

'' (1935) - Anne 'Annie' * ''

A Feather in Her Hat ''A Feather in Her Hat'' is a 1935 melodrama film starring Pauline Lord as a working-class woman with ambitions for her son. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie. Plot In 1925 London, middle-aged, widowed shopkeeper ...

'' (1935) - Katy (uncredited) * ''

I Found Stella Parish ''I Found Stella Parish'' is a 1935 melodrama starring Kay Francis as a beloved actress whose dark secret is revealed to the world.. Plot In London, Stella Parish (Kay Francis) has her greatest stage triumph in a play produced and directed by Ste ...

'' (1935) - Waiting Woman (uncredited) * '' Kind Lady'' (1935) - Flower Woman (uncredited) * ''

A Tale of Two Cities ''A Tale of Two Cities'' is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in ...

'' (1935) - Old Hag (uncredited) * '' The Story of Louis Pasteur'' (1936) - Woman (uncredited) * ''

Little Lord Fauntleroy ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was published as a serial in ''St. Nicholas Magazine'' from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of ''St. Nicholas'') in 1886. The ill ...

'' (1936) - Mrs. Dibble * '' Till We Meet Again'' (1936) - Old Woman (uncredited) * '' The White Angel'' (1936) - Mrs. Waters, the Drunken Nurse * '' Suzy'' (1936) - Old Woman Getting Police (uncredited) * ''

The Road Back ''The Road Back'', also translated as ''The Way Back'', (german: Der Weg zurück) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front''. It was first serialized in th ...

'' (1937) - Old Woman (uncredited) * ''

Fools for Scandal ''Fools for Scandal'' is a 1938 screwball comedy film starring Carole Lombard and Fernand Gravet, featuring Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Isabel Jeans, Marie Wilson and Marcia Ralston, and produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It was written ...

'' (1938) - Bessie * '' The Rage of Paris'' (1938) - Nicole's Landlady (uncredited) * '' Confessions of a Nazi Spy'' (1939) - (uncredited) * ''

Boys' Reformatory ''Boys' Reformatory'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and produced by Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures. The screenplay was written by Wellyn Totman and Ray Trampe after a story by Ray Trampe and Norman S. Hall. ...

'' (1939) - Mrs. Callahan * ''

Some Like It Hot ''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitne ...

'' (1939) - Flower Woman (uncredited) * '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1939) - Madeleine (uncredited) * ''

The Earl of Chicago ''The Earl of Chicago'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Montgomery, Edward Arnold, Reginald Owen and Edmund Gwenn. It is the first MGM film in the 1940s. Plot To remedy the ill doings of his past, Rob ...

'' (1940) - Mrs. Oakes (uncredited) * '' Waterloo Bridge'' (1940) - Cockney in Air-Raid Shelter (uncredited) * '' Arise, My Love'' (1940) - Woman in Irish Pub (uncredited) * ''

Shining Victory ''Shining Victory'' is a 1941 American drama film based on the 1940 play '' Jupiter Laughs,'' by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil. It is the first film directed by Irving Rapper. ...

'' (1941) - Miss Weatherby, a Patient (uncredited) * ''

One Foot in Heaven ''One Foot in Heaven'' is a 1941 American biographical film starring Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart and Elisabeth Fraser. The film was adapted by Casey Robinson from the autobiography by Hartzell Spence. It was directed ...

'' (1941) - Mrs. Dibble (uncredited) * ''

Now, Voyager ''Now, Voyager'' is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty. Prouty ...

'' (1942) - Mrs. Smith (uncredited) * ''

Jane Eyre ''Jane Eyre'' ( ; originally published as ''Jane Eyre: An Autobiography'') is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first ...

'' (1943) - Fortune Teller (uncredited) * ''

The Hour Before the Dawn ''The Hour Before the Dawn'' is a 1944 American drama war film directed by Frank Tuttle starring Franchot Tone and Veronica Lake. It was based on the 1942 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Plot In 1923 in England, General Hetherton is instructing hi ...

'' (1944) - Mrs. Saunders (uncredited) * '' Kitty'' (1945) - Woman in Window (uncredited) * '' Forever Amber'' (1947) - Midwife (uncredited) * '' The Fan'' (1949) - Mrs. Rudge (uncredited) * ''

The Pilgrimage Play ''The Pilgrimage Play'' is a 1949 historical drama film directed by Frank Strayer, from an original screenplay by Arthur Pierson (director), Arthur Pierson. It was adapted from the play by Christine Wetherill Stevenson. The film stars Nelson Leig ...

'' (1949) - (uncredited) * '' Thunder on the Hill'' (1951) - Old Crone (uncredited) (final film role)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pigott, Tempe 1869 births 1962 deaths Australian film actresses Australian silent film actresses 20th-century Australian actresses