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Beryl Mercer (August 13, 1882 – July 28, 1939) was a Spanish-born American actress of stage and screen who was based in the United States.[1]

Beryl Mercer
Mercer in 1918
Born	(1882-08-13)August 13, 1882 Seville, Spain
Died	July 28, 1939(1939-07-28) (aged 56) Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1916–1939
Spouse(s)	Maitland Paisley ​ ​ (m. 1896; div. 1909)​ Holmes Herbert (m. 1909; div. 19??)
Children	1

Early years

Beryl Mercer was born to British parents in Seville on 13 August 1882. Her father was Edward Sheppard Mercer, said to be Spanish despite his name, and her mother was the actress Effie (née Martin).[2][note 1][3]

Career

She became a child actor, making her debut on 14 August 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Yarmouth, when she was age 4. She returned to the stage when she was ten. In London, she appeared in The Darling of the Gods and the production by Oscar Asche of A Midsummer Night's Dream.[2] In 1906 she appeared as a Kaffir slave in the West End play The Shulamite.[4] She travelled with this play to the United States, where she received good reviews.[2] That 1906 play marked her Broadway debut.[5]

Mercer was honored by Dowager Queen Alexandra for her work as an entertainer during World War I.[6]

Mercer's film debut came in The Christian.[7] She was best known as a film actress for her motherly roles. She played Lew Ayres' mother in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and James Cagney's mother in The Public Enemy (1931). She also regularly appeared as a grandmother or cook or maid in some high-profile films. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1916 and 1939, and her career was at a peak in the 1930s when she regularly appeared in several films per year. Mercer appeared in Cavalcade (1933), Jane Eyre, The Little Minister, and The Richest Girl in the World (all 1934). She was in two versions of Three Live Ghosts (1929 and 1935) and The Little Princess (1939) as Queen Victoria.

Personal life

Mercer was married to Maitland Paisley early in her life. Her only other marriage was to actor Holmes Herbert in the late 1920s. She had one child, Joan Mercer, later Bitting, born on 16 September 1917.[8]

Death

On 28 July 1939, Mercer died in Santa Monica, California, aged 56, following surgery for an undisclosed ailment. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[9]

Filmography

Notes

References

External links

• Beryl Mercer at IMDb
• Beryl Mercer at the Internet Broadway Database
• Beryl Mercer at Find a Grave

На других языках

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[ru] Мерсер, Берил

Берил Мерсер (англ. Beryl Mercer, 13 августа 1882 (1882-08-13) — 28 июля 1939) — американская актриса. Родилась в Севилье в британской семье. В 1906 году актриса дебютировала на Бродвее, где последующие годы продолжала много играть. На киноэкранах Мерсер впервые появилась в 1916 году в немом фильме. В последующие два десятилетия своей карьеры актриса появилась более чем в пятидесяти кинокартинах, воплощая на экранах второстепенные роли матерей, бабушек и горничных. Наиболее известными фильмами с её участием стали «На Западном фронте без перемен» (1930), «Вдохновение» (1931), «Враг общества» (1931), «Кавалькада» (1933), «Джейн Эйр» (1934), «Маленькая принцесса» (1939) и «Собака Баскервилей» (1939). Актриса дважды была замужем. Её вторым супругом был британский актёр Холмс Херберт. Берил Мерсер скончалась в 1939 году в возрасте 56 лет после перенесённой ранее операции. Похоронена на кладбище Форест-Лаун в Глендейле.

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