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Eily Malyon

Acting

Born October 30, 1879 · London, England, UK

Died September 26, 1961

Also known as Eily S. Lees-Craston · Eily Malyan · Ely Malyon

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eily Malyon (born Eily Sophie Lees-Craston, 30 October 1879 – 26 September 1961) was an English character actress in the 1930s and 1940s. Malyon was born in London in 1879. Her mother, Agnes Thomas, was also an actress. Malyon specialised in playing stern schoolteachers, maids, nurses, nuns, governesses and spinsters, usually in melodramas, historical dramas and thrillers.

Filmography32 titles

Romance in Manhattan

1935as Miss Evans

On Borrowed Time

1939as Demetria Riffle

Shadow of a Doubt

1943as Mrs. Cochran (uncredited)

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939as Mrs. Barryman

Les Misérables

1935as Mother Superior

Foreign Correspondent

1940as College Arms Hotel Cashier (uncredited)

Night Must Fall

1937as Nurse

Camille

1936as Therese the Maid in Country House (uncredited)

Jane Eyre

1943as Mrs. Skatcher

I Married a Witch

1942as Tabitha Wooley (uncredited)

Man Hunt

1941as Postmistress

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1938as Mrs. Turner

A Tale of Two Cities

1935as Mrs. Cruncher

The Devil-Doll

1936as Laundry Supervisor (uncredited)

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936as Landlady

Going My Way

1944as Mrs. Carmody

The Little Princess

1939as Cook

The Young in Heart

1938as Sarah

Today We Live

1933as Wendy, the Maid (uncredited)

Son of Lassie

1945as Washwoman

Above Suspicion

1943as Walmer Hotel Proprietess (Uncredited)

Mark of the Vampire

1935

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1935as Angus' Wife

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1939as Mrs. McLaughlin

Dracula's Daughter

1936as Miss Peabody (uncredited)

Forsaking All Others

1934as Mrs. Gordon (Uncredited)

Devotion

1946as Mrs. Thornton's Friend at the Ball (uncredited)

Young Tom Edison

1940as Miss Lavina Howard, School Teacher

She-Wolf of London

1946as Hannah, the Housekeeper

Rasputin and the Empress

1932as Woman Yelling 'Blessed Among Women!' (uncredited)

One Rainy Afternoon

1936as President of Public Morals Society

Scared Stiff

1945as Mrs. Cooke