Clara Blandick
- Acting
- June 4, 1876 · Onboard American ship in Hong Kong
- April 15, 1962
Biography
Clara Blandick (born Clara Blanchard Dickey) was an American stage and screen actress best known for her role as Auntie Em in the beloved 1939 classic film The Wizard of Oz.
Known for
Filmography
- Riding High · Mrs. Peterson (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Key to the City · Liza, Silas' housekeeper
- Mr. Soft Touch · Susan Balmuss
- The Bride Goes Wild · Aunt Pewtie
- Life with Father · Miss Wiggins
- Philo Vance Returns · Stella Blendon
- She-Wolf of London · Mrs. McBroom (uncredited)
- So Goes My Love · Mrs. Meade
- A Stolen Life · Martha
- Claudia and David · Mrs. Barry
- People Are Funny · Grandma Wilson
- Frontier Gal · Abigail
- Pillow of Death · Belle Kincaid
- Can't Help Singing · Aunt Cissy
- Shadow of Suspicion · Mother Randall
- Du Barry Was a Lady · Old Lady on Subway (uncredited)
- Heaven Can Wait · Grandmother Van Cleve (uncredited)
- Gentleman Jim · Woman on Train (uncredited)
- Lady in a Jam · Tourist (uncredited)
- Rings on Her Fingers
- One Foot in Heaven · Sister Watkins (uncredited)
- It Started with Eve · Nurse
- Private Nurse · Miss Phillips
- The Big Store · Customer Seeking Record (uncredited)
- The Get-Away · Mrs. Higgins
- The Nurse's Secret · Aunt Juliet Mitchell
- The Wagons Roll at Night · Mrs. Williams
- Youth Will Be Served · Miss Bradshaw
- North West Mounted Police · Mrs. Burns
- Dreaming Out Loud · Jessica Spencer
- Tomboy · Aunt Martha
- Alice in Movieland · Grandmother
- Swanee River · Mrs. Griffin
- Drums Along the Mohawk · Mrs. Borst
- The Star Maker · Miss Esther Jones
- The Wizard of Oz · Auntie Em
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Miss Watson
- Tom Sawyer, Detective · Aunt Polly
- Swing, Sister, Swing · Ma Sisler
- Professor Beware · Mrs. Green - Landlady
- Crime Ring · Phoebe Sawyer
- My Old Kentucky Home · Julia 'Granny' Blair
- Small Town Boy · Mrs. Armstrong
- You Can't Have Everything · Townswoman (uncredited)
- The Road Back · Willy's Mother
- Wings Over Honolulu · Evie Curtis
- A Star Is Born · Aunt Mattie (uncredited)
- Her Husband's Secretary · Agatha 'Aunt Gussie' Kingdon
- Make Way for a Lady · Mrs. Dell, Drew's Maid
- In His Steps · Martha Adams
- The Gorgeous Hussy · Louisa Abbott
- Anthony Adverse · Mrs. Jorham
- The Case of the Velvet Claws · Mary F. O'Daugherty
- Hearts Divided · Aunt Ellen
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine · Gaptown Landlady
- Party Wire · Mathilda Sherman
- Straight from the Heart · Mrs. Anderson
- Transient Lady · Eva Branham
- The Winning Ticket · Aunt Maggie
- Fugitive Lady · Aunt Margaret
- Broadway Bill · Mrs. Peterson
- Jealousy · Mrs. Douglas
- The President Vanishes · Mrs. Delling
- The Girl from Missouri · Miss Newberry
- Sisters Under the Skin · Miss Gower
- Harold Teen · Ma Lovewell
- The Show-Off · Mrs. 'Ma'
- As the Earth Turns · Cora
- Beloved · Miss Murfee
- Going Hollywood · Ms. Perkins
- Ever in My Heart · Anna, the Cook
- Charlie Chan's Greatest Case · Minerva Winterslip
- Turn Back the Clock · Mrs. Gimlet, Joe's Mother
- Three Cornered Moon · Ronald’s Landlady (uncredited)
- The Mind Reader · Auntie (uncredited)
- Child of Manhattan · Aunt Sophie
- Rockabye · Brida
- Three on a Match · Mrs. Keaton (uncredited)
- Life Begins · Mrs. West
- The Strange Case of Clara Deane · Mrs. Lyons (scenes deleted)