Sarah Padden

Sarah Padden

Known for

Acting

Born

October 15, 1881

Birthplace

Sunderland, England, UK

Died

December 4, 1967 (aged 86)

Biography

Sarah Padden was a character actress in theater and vaudeville from Chicago, Illinois. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. She is noted for her expressive voice and for her psychological studies of the characters she portrayed. Her finest single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War. Padden was a featured player on the Orpheum Circuit, Inc.. She had a role in His Grace de Grammont, a romantic comedy by Clyde Fitch which came to the Park Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts in September 1905. The production starred Skinner and was based on the life of a chevalier in the court of C...

Best known work

Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel
1932
This Gun for Hire
This Gun for Hire
1942
The Pride of the Yankees
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
Hangmen Also Die!
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Mad Love
Mad Love
1935
House by the River
House by the River
1950
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
1935
Possessed
Possessed
1947
A Woman's Face
A Woman's Face
1941
Mata Hari
Mata Hari
1931

Filmography

  1. 1958

    Girl with an Itch

    as Cookie

  2. 1958

    Screaming Mimi

    as Landlady

  3. 1956

  4. 1955

    Prince of Players

    as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)

  5. 1954

    Public DefenderTV

    as Eula Mae Carter (1 episode)

  6. 1953

    Letter to LorettaTV

    as Frau Lang (1 episode)

  7. 1953

    The Life Of RileyTV

    as Martha Riley (3 episodes)

  8. 1952

    The Abbott and Costello ShowTV

    as Old Lady on Street (1 episode)

  9. 1952

    Adventures of SupermanTV

    as Mrs. Carmody (1 episode)

  10. 1952

    Big Jim McLain

    as Mrs. Lexiter

  11. 1951

  12. 1951

    Utah Wagon Train

    as Sarah Wendover

  13. 1950

    The Missourians

    as Mother Kovacs

  14. 1950

    Again Pioneers

    as Ma Ashby

  15. 1950

    The Cisco KidTV

    as Mrs. Smiley (1 episode), as Sara (1 episode)

  16. 1950

    A Life of Her Own

    as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)

  17. 1950

    Gunslingers

    as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins

  18. 1950

    House by the River

    as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook

  19. 1949

    The Lone RangerTV

    as Grandma Williams (1 episode)

  20. 1949

    Range Justice

    as Ma Curtis

  21. 1949

    Homicide

    as Mrs. Webb

  22. 1948

    Frontier Revenge

    as Widow Owens

  23. 1948

    The Dude Goes West

    as Mrs. Hallihan

  24. 1948

  25. 1948

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