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Catherine Proctor
Canadian actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Louisa Catherine Proctor (November 12, 1878[1] – August 24, 1967) was a Canadian actress[2] whose career included roles on Broadway,[3] in silent films, and on radio[4] and television. She was called "one of the authentic great ladies of the stage" in a Montreal newspaper in 1956.[5]
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Early life and education
Proctor was born in New Edinburgh, Ontario, one of the six children[6] of William Proctor and Catherine McDonald Proctor.[7] Her father worked in real estate and hotels, and died in 1892.[8] She began performing as a dramatic reader while still a girl.[9] She attended the Toronto College of Music, and appeared in college theatrical productions.[10]
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Proctor had a busy stage career for over five decades. She toured with stock companies beginning in 1902.[11] Her stage credits included roles in The Pretty Sister of José,[7] The Other Girl, Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1906),[12] Paid in Full,[7] Society and the Bulldog (1908), The Concert (1910–1912),[13] The Easiest Way (1912),[7] The Governor's Lady (1913),[14] Now and To-morrow (1915), Depths of Purity (1915),[15][16] Out There (1917),[17] The Wooing of Eve (1917), Happiness (1917–1918),[18] The Matinee Hero (1918), The Mirage (1920–1921),[19] Ambush (1921), The Wife with the Smile (1921),[20] East of Suez (1922),[21] Bristol Glass (1923),[22] Macbeth (1924), The Steam Roller (1924), Ariadne (1925), The Importance of Being Earnest (1926), L'Aiglon (1927–1928),[23] Electra (1928),[24] Girl Trouble (1928),[24] Sakura (1928), The Royal Box (1928–1929), The Ghost Parade (1929), Greater Love (1931), If Booth Had Missed (1932),[25] Nine Pine Street (1933),[26] Ah, Wilderness! (1935),[8] The Puritan (1936), Howdy Stranger (1937), Reflected Glory (1937), Miss Quis (1937), Biography (1937),[21] The Late George Apley (1944–1945),[27] Arsenic and Old Lace (1943, 1950, 1956),[28][29][5] Mistress of Jalna (1953),[30] and Separate Tables (1958).[31]
On radio, Proctor was in a 1934 production of a comedy Thursday Night.[32] She appeared in several silent films, and had small roles in several more sound pictures. "Yes, I have seen myself in a film," she told a Toronto newspaper in 1915. "It feels most uncanny. Sometimes I thought, 'Surely I never looked as badly as that?'"[33]
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Filmography
Film
- Without Hope (1914) – La Belle[33]
- Not Guilty (1915) – Dora Birch
- The Foolish Virgin (1916) – Nance Anthony[34]
- A Society Scandal (1924) – Mrs. Burr
- Youth Takes a Fling (1938) – Mrs. Aspitt[26]
- The Women (1939) – Woman in Cabinet (uncredited)[citation needed]
- Emergency Squad (1940) – Emily (uncredited)[26]
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)[26]
- City of Chance (1940) – (uncredited)[citation needed]
- A Woman's Face (1941) – Mrs. Sergerblum (uncredited)[citation needed]
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