Anita Sharp-Bolster

She was born 28 August 1895 in Glenlohane, Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland.{{Citation needed |date=September 2021}}

Sharp-Bolster's Broadway credits include Kathleen, Pygmalion, and Lady in Waiting.{{cite web|title=Anita Bolster|url=http://www.playbill.com/searchpage/search?q=Anita+Bolster&sort=Relevance&shows=on&qasset=00000150-ac7d-d16d-a550-ec7fe7850001|website=Playbill|accessdate=16 April 2016}}

Sharp-Bolster debuted in the British film What Money Can Buy (1928).{{cite journal|last1=Seymour|first1=Blackie|title=Anita Sharp-Bolster|journal=Films of the Golden Age|date=Summer 2011|issue=65|page=84}} Her American film debut came in 1942 in Saboteur, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In a 2013 book, one writer described her as "one of the most riveting human gargoyles in Hollywood films."{{cite book|last1=Nissen|first1=Axel|title=The Films of Agnes Moorehead|date=2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.|isbn=9780810891371|page=112|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dcQcAAAAQBAJ&q=%22Anita+Bolster%22+Ireland&pg=PA112|accessdate=16 April 2016|ref=fam}} She worked steadily in character roles throughout her movie career.

Sharp-Bolster worked with the BBC in the UK.{{cite news|title=Today's Radio Programs|newspaper=The Daily Mail |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4962701/the_daily_mail/|agency=The Daily Mail|date=8 April 1940|location=Maryland, Hagerstown|page=10|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=8 October 2016}} {{Open access}}

Billed as Anita Bolster, she appeared in three episodes of Dark Shadows in March 1968. Bolster portrayed a witch named Bathia Mapes who failed to remove a curse of vampirism from Barnabas Collins.

Sharp-Bolster was married to Jacob Schwartz.{{cite web|title=Harold Pinter: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00108/hrc-00108.html|website=Texas Archival Resources Online|accessdate=17 April 2016}} She died in North Miami, Florida.{{Citation needed |date=September 2021}}

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• What Money Can Buy (1928) - Cleaner
• S.O.S. (1928) - Mme. Karensky
• Would You Believe It! (1929) - Presbyterian
• Number, Please (1931)
• The Bells (1931)
• Mr. Bill the Conqueror (1932)
• Strip! Strip! Hooray!!! (1932) - Bit Part (uncredited)
• The Temperance Fete (1932) - Teacher
• Lassie from Lancashire (1938) - Woman in Audience (uncredited)
• The Villiers Diamond (1938) - Mlle. Dulac (uncredited)
• Saboteur (1942) - Lorelei - Circus Troupe
• This Above All (1942) - Tea Shop Customer (uncredited)
• I Married an Angel (1942) - Mrs. Kipper (uncredited)
• The Pride of the Yankees (1942) - Sasha's Mother (uncredited)
• Nightmare (1942) - Mrs. McDonald - Housekeeper
• Journey for Margaret (1942) - Woman with Cat (uncredited)
• London Blackout Murders (1943) - Mrs. Pringle
• Forever and a Day (1943) - Mrs. Garrow
• Flesh and Fantasy (1943) - Relative (uncredited)
• Thumbs Up (1943) - Mrs. Smithers, the Landlady (uncredited)
• Heaven Can Wait (1943) - Mrs. Cooper-Cooper (uncredited)
• Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943) - Mrs. Norris (uncredited)
• The Lodger (1944) - Wiggy - Barfly (uncredited)
• Passport to Destiny (1944) - Agnes
• Going My Way (1944) - Mrs. Hattie Quimp (uncredited)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) - Miller (uncredited)
• The Doughgirls (1944) - Maid (uncredited)
• Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944) - Stewardess (uncredited)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - Lady Harborough (uncredited)
• Kitty (1945) - Mullens
• My Name Is Julia Ross (1945) - Sparkes
• The Lost Weekend (1945) - Mrs. Foley
• Scarlet Street (1945) - Mrs. Michaels
• The Thin Man Goes Home (1945) - Hilda
• Dressed to Kill (1946) - Teacher on Museum Tour (uncredited)
• The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) - Christine
• Dark Passage (1947) - Woman (uncredited)
• Love From a Stranger (1947) - Ethel
• The Judge Steps Out (1947) - Martha, the Maid
• The Woman in White (1948) - Mrs. Todd
• The Perfect Woman (1949) - Lady Diana
• Saints and Sinners (1949) - (uncredited)
• Waterfront (1950) - Mrs. Simon (uncredited)
• Talk of a Million (1951) - Miss Rafferty
• Madame Louise (1951) - Cafe Proprietress
• Botany Bay (1952) - Moll Cudlip
• The Final Test (1953) - Daisy (uncredited)
• Raising a Riot (1955) - Mrs. Buttons
• The Hornet's Nest (1955) - Miss Anderson
• Reluctant Bride (1955) - Mrs. Fogarty
• Tears for Simon (1956) - Miss Gill
• The Rising of the Moon (1957) - Colonel Frobisher's Wife (2nd Episode)
• Stormy Crossing (1958) - First Nurse
• The Man Who Liked Funerals (1959) - Lady Hunter
• Alive and Kicking (1959) - Postmistress
• School for Scoundrels (1960) - Maid
• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) - Maid (uncredited)
• The House in Marsh Road (1960) - Mrs. O'Brien
• The Hands of Orlac (1960) - Volchett's Assistant (uncredited)
• Payroll (1961) - Landlady (uncredited)
• On the Beat (1962) - Hair-Salon Customer (uncredited)
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) - Mrs. Slattery (uncredited)
• Father Came Too! (1964) - Mrs. Trumper
• Promise Her Anything (1966) - Mrs. Egan - Baby Sitter (uncredited)
• The Boy Cried Murder (1966) - Mrs. Wetherall
• Craze (1974) - Woman at will reading. (uncredited)
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) - Old lady (uncredited)
• Jabberwocky (1977) - Old Crone / Woman with Stone (uncredited)

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• Educated Evans (1957, 1 episode)
• The Larkins (1959) as Gran Foskett in ep Total Welfare
• The Saint (TV show, Season 1, Episode 2, 1962) as Ada Harmer
• Dark Shadows (1968, 3 episodes) as Bathia Mapes
• Jude the Obscure (1971) as Mrs Trott
• Skiboy (1973) as Mountain Witch
• Thriller (1976, 1 episode).

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