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Tempe Pigott

{{short description|British actress (1869–1962)}}

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| name = Tempe Pigott

| image = Tempe Pigott in Becky Sharp.jpg

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| caption = Pigott as the charwoman in Becky Sharp (1935)

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|02|02|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Queensland, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1962|10|6|1869|2|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, California, United States

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| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1921–1951 (films only)

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Tempe Pigott (2 February 1869{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9PIDAAAQBAJ&dq=tempe+pigott+australia&pg=PA172|title=Accustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood|first=Axel|last=Nissen|date=1 August 2016|publisher=McFarland and Co. pp 172–173|isbn=9780786497324|via=Google Books}} – 6 October 1962) 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 (1911),{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47749735/palace-theatre/ |title=Palace Theatre |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |page=2 |date=1911-09-11 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}} Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance (1912),{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47750275/palace-theatre-a-woman-of-no/ |title=Palace Theatre |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |page=2 |date=1912-01-22 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}} and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's His House in Order (1914).{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47750322/little-his-house-in-order/ |title=Little – 'His House in Order' |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |page=16 |date=1914-10-31 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}} 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 (Gibson Gowland) in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924), and as the landlady Mrs. Hawkins in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931).

She died at Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, USA.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47750453/mrs-tempe-pigott/ |title=Mrs. Tempe Pigott |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |page=42 |date=1962-10-14 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}

Selected filmography

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  • {{IMDb name|0683114}}
  • {{IBDB name|56215}}

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Category:1869 births

Category:1962 deaths

Category:Australian film actresses

Category:Australian silent film actresses

Category:20th-century Australian actresses

Category:Colony of Queensland people