Tempe Pigott


Tempe Pigott was an Australian silent and sound screen character actress. In the pre-film era she was a stage actress in England, Australia, Canada and the United States. She began appearing in motion pictures in the 1920s.
In 1907, she was a member of the Lillian Meyers Dramatic Company which toured Australia; for some years thereafter, she remained in Australia and acted in such theatrical productions as Nobody's Daughter, Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's His House in Order. 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 in Erich von Stroheim's Greed, and as the landlady Mrs. Hawkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
She died at Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

Selected filmography

  • The Great Impersonation as Mrs. Unthank
  • The Masked Avenger as Aunt Phoebe Dyer
  • Vanity Fair as Mrs. Sedley
  • The Rustle of Silk as Mrs. De Breeze
  • The Dawn of a Tomorrow as Ginney
  • Greed as Mother McTeague
  • The Narrow Street as Aunt Agnes
  • Without Mercy as Madame Gordon
  • The Lure of the Track
  • The Black Pirate as Duenna
  • The Midnight Kiss as Grandma Spencer
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans as Flower Seller
  • Silk Stockings as Mrs. Gower
  • Wallflowers as Mrs. Claybourne
  • Road House as Grandma Grayson
  • Seven Days Leave as Mrs. Haggerty
  • Night Work as Flora
  • Outward Bound as First Gossip
  • Born to Love as Landlady
  • Devotion as Tibby, The Cook
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Mrs. Hawkins
  • Murders in the Rue Morgue as Crone
  • Almost Married
  • American Madness as Mrs. Halligan
  • If I Had a Million as Idylwood Resident
  • Cavalcade as Mrs. Snapper
  • Oliver Twist as Mrs. Corney
  • Looking Forward as Woman Looking for Plumbing Department
  • A Study in Scarlet as Mrs. Hudson
  • Man of the Forest as Peg's Friend
  • Doctor Bull as Grandma Banning
  • If I Were Free as Mrs. Gill
  • Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Woman Praying In Church
  • Long Lost Father as Mrs. Gamp, The Old Woman
  • All Men Are Enemies as Tony's Housekeeper
  • Of Human Bondage as Agnes Hollett, Phillip's Landlady
  • One More River as Mrs. Purdy
  • The Lemon Drop Kid as Old Lady
  • Flirtation as Flower Woman
  • Limehouse Blues as Maggie
  • Vanessa: Her Love Story as Cake Seller at the Fair
  • The Devil Is a Woman as Tuerta
  • Bride of Frankenstein as Auntie Glutz
  • Werewolf of London as Drunk Woman
  • Becky Sharp as The Charwoman
  • Calm Yourself as Anne 'Annie'
  • A Feather in Her Hat as Katy
  • I Found Stella Parish as Waiting Woman
  • Kind Lady as Flower Woman
  • A Tale of Two Cities as Old Hag
  • The Story of Louis Pasteur as Woman
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy as Mrs. Dibble
  • Till We Meet Again as Old Woman
  • The White Angel as Mrs. Waters, the Drunken Nurse
  • Suzy as Old Woman Getting Police
  • The Road Back as Old Woman
  • Fools for Scandal as Bessie
  • The Rage of Paris as Nicole's Landlady
  • Confessions of a Nazi Spy as
  • Boys' Reformatory as Mrs. Callahan
  • Some Like It Hot as Flower Woman
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Madeleine
  • The Earl of Chicago as Mrs. Oakes
  • Waterloo Bridge as Cockney in Air-Raid Shelter
  • Arise, My Love as Woman in Irish Pub
  • Shining Victory as Miss Weatherby, a Patient
  • One Foot in Heaven as Mrs. Dibble
  • Now, Voyager as Mrs. Smith
  • Jane Eyre as Fortune Teller
  • The Hour Before the Dawn as Mrs. Saunders
  • Kitty as Woman in Window
  • Forever Amber as Midwife
  • The Fan as Mrs. Rudge
  • The Pilgrimage Play as
  • Thunder on the Hill as Old Crone