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. UnthankThe Masked Avenger as Aunt Phoebe DyerVanity Fair as Mrs. SedleyThe Rustle of Silk as Mrs. De BreezeThe Dawn of a Tomorrow as GinneyGreed as Mother McTeagueThe Narrow Street as Aunt AgnesWithout Mercy as Madame GordonThe Lure of the Track The Black Pirate as DuennaThe Midnight Kiss as Grandma SpencerSunrise: A Song of Two Humans as Flower Seller Silk Stockings as Mrs. GowerWallflowers as Mrs. ClaybourneRoad House as Grandma GraysonSeven Days Leave as Mrs. HaggertyNight 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. HawkinsMurders in the Rue Morgue as Crone Almost Married American Madness as Mrs. Halligan If I Had a Million as Idylwood Resident Cavalcade as Mrs. SnapperOliver Twist as Mrs. CorneyLooking Forward as Woman Looking for Plumbing Department A Study in Scarlet as Mrs. Hudson Man of the Forest as Peg's FriendDoctor Bull as Grandma BanningIf I Were Free as Mrs. GillMiss Fane's Baby Is Stolen as Woman Praying In Church Long Lost Father as Mrs. Gamp, The Old WomanAll Men Are Enemies as Tony's Housekeeper Of Human Bondage as Agnes Hollett, Phillip's Landlady One More River as Mrs. PurdyThe 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 TuertaBride of Frankenstein as Auntie Glutz Werewolf of London as Drunk Woman Becky Sharp as The CharwomanCalm 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. DibbleTill We Meet Again as Old Woman The White Angel as Mrs. Waters, the Drunken NurseSuzy as Old Woman Getting Police The Road Back as Old Woman Fools for Scandal as BessieThe Rage of Paris as Nicole's Landlady Confessions of a Nazi Spy as Boys' Reformatory as Mrs. CallahanSome 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