Minnie Rayner

Minnie Rayner
Born	(1869-05-02)2 May 1869 London United Kingdom
Died	13 December 1941(1941-12-13) (aged 72) London United Kingdom
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1903 – 1940

Minnie Rayner (2 May 1869 – 13 December 1941) was a British stage and film actress.^[1] A character actress she played working class figures, often mothers, in films of the 1930s. Her roles include the matriarch of the working-class Fulham family who takes in an exiled Russian Prince (Ivor Novello) as a lodger in the comedy I Lived with You (1933).^[2] The same year she played Gracie Fields' mother in This Week of Grace.^[3]

A recurring role was that of the landlady Mrs. Hudson in a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations starring Arthur Wontner.^[4]

Her stage work included the part of Clara in the original production of Noël Coward's Hay Fever at the Ambassadors Theatre, London, in 1925.^[5] She also appeared in a series of Ivor Novello's plays and musicals in the West End: Symphony in Two Flats (1929), Glamorous Night (1935), Careless Rapture (1936), Crest of the Wave (1937), and The Dancing Years (1939).^[6] In 1930, she reprised her performance as Mabel in Symphony in Two Flats in the Broadway stage and British film versions.^[7][8]

Filmography

References

External links

• Minnie Rayner on IMDb
• Minnie Rayner at the Internet Broadway Database