Margaret Yarde

{{Short description|British actress (1878–1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox person | name = Margaret Yarde | image = Actress_Margaret_Yarde.jpg | caption = Yarde (left) with Diana Cotton on set of ''The Man from Toronto'' (1933) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1878|04|02}} | birth_place = Dartmouth, Devon, England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1944|03|11|1878|04|02}} | death_place = London, England | restingplace = | years_active = 1913-1944 | occupation = Actress<br />Opera singer }}

'''Margaret Yarde''' (2 April 1878 – 11 March 1944) was a British stage and film actress. She often played domestics, landladies and mothers.

== Biography == Yarde was born on 2 April 1878 in Dartmouth, Devon, England.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3034669|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929045340/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba3034669|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 September 2017|title=Margaret Yarde|website=BFI}}</ref>

Initially training to be an opera singer, she made her London stage debut in 1907.<ref>{{cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXnXDQAAQBAJ&q=margaret+yarde+The+Encyclopedia+of+British+Film%3A+Fourth+edition&pg=PA850 |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition |date=16 May 2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9781526111975}}</ref> She also became a film actress,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/1p7/margaret-yarde/past|title=Margaret Yarde profile|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref> often playing domestics, landladies and mothers.<ref name=":0" />

She died on 11 Mar 1944 in London, England, aged 65.<ref name=":0" />

==Filmography== {{div col}} * ''A Cigarette-Maker's Romance'' (1913) - Woman * ''The Only Way'' (1925) - The Vengeance * ''London'' (1926) - Eliza Critten * ''Night Birds'' (1930) - Mrs. Hallick * ''The Woman Between'' (1931) - Mrs. Robinson * ''Uneasy Virtue'' (1931) - Mrs. Robinson * ''Third Time Lucky'' (1931) - Mrs. Clutterbuck * ''Let's Love and Laugh'' (1931) - Bride's Mother * ''Michael and Mary'' (1931) - Mrs. Tullivant * ''The Sign of Four'' (1932) - Mrs. Smith * ''The Good Companions'' (1933) - Mrs. Mounder * ''Enemy of the Police'' (1933) - Lady Tapleigh * ''A Shot in the Dark'' (1933) - Kate Browne * ''The Man from Toronto'' (1933) - Mrs. Hubbard * ''Matinee Idol'' (1933) - Mrs. Clappit * ''Trouble in Store'' (1934, Short) - Landlady * ''Guest of Honour'' (1934) - Emma Tidmarsh * ''Tiger Bay'' (1934) - Fay * ''Nine Forty-Five'' (1934) - Margaret Clancy * ''Sing As We Go'' (1934) - Mrs. Clotty * ''Father and Son'' (1934) - Victoria * ''A Glimpse of Paradise'' (1934) - Mrs. Kidd * ''The Broken Rosary'' (1934) - Nanny * ''Widow's Might'' (1935) - Cook * ''Handle with Care'' (1935) - Mrs. Tunbody * ''Who's Your Father'' (1935) - Mrs. Medway * ''That's My Uncle'' (1935) - Mrs. Frisbee * ''18 Minutes'' (1935) - Marie * ''Full Circle'' (1935) - Agatha * ''Jubilee Window'' (1935) - Mrs. Holroyd * ''It Happened in Paris'' (1935) - Marthe * ''Squibs'' (1935) - Mrs. Lee * ''The Crouching Beast'' (1935) - Bar owner * ''The Deputy Drummer'' (1935) - Lady Sylvester * ''Man of the Moment'' (1935) - Landlady * ''Scrooge'' (1935) - Scrooge's Laundress * ''Queen of Hearts'' (1936) - Mrs. Porter * ''Faithful'' (1936) - Mrs. Kemp * ''In the Soup'' (1936) - Mrs. Bates * ''Gypsy Melody'' (1936) - Grand Duchess * ''No Escape'' (1936) - Bunty * ''Beauty and the Barge'' (1937) - Mrs. Porter * ''Secret Lives'' (1937) - Bakery Customer (uncredited) * ''The Compulsory Wife'' (1937) - Mrs. Thackery * ''Merry Comes to Town'' (1937) - (uncredited) * ''French Leave'' (1937) - Mme. Dernaux * ''You Live and Learn'' (1937) - Mrs. Biddle * ''Calling All Ma's'' (1937) - Ma-in-Law * ''Prison Without Bars'' (1938) - Mlle. Artemise * ''You're the Doctor'' (1939) - Mrs. Taggart * ''The Face at the Window'' (1939) - La Pinan * ''French Without Tears'' (1940) - Marianne * ''Crimes at the Dark House'' (1940) - Mrs. Bullen * ''The Second Mr. Bush'' (1940) - (uncredited) * ''Henry Steps Out'' (1940) - Cynthia Smith * ''George and Margaret'' (1940) - Cook * ''Two Smart Men'' (1940) - Mrs. Smith * ''Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) - Fauntel * ''Thursday's Child'' (1943) - Mrs. Chard * ''It's in the Bag'' (1944) - Landlady (uncredited) {{div col end}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0946410}} *{{IBDB name|443793}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yarde, Margaraet}} Category:1878 births Category:1944 deaths Category:Actresses from Devon Category:English stage actresses Category:English film actresses Category:English silent film actresses Category:People from Dartmouth, Devon Category:20th-century English actresses