Dublin-born Sara Allgood started her acting career in her native country with the famed Abbey Theatre. From there she traveled to the English stage, where she played for many years before making her film debut in 1918. Her warm, open Irish face meant that she spent a lot of time playing Irish mothers, landladies, neighborhood gossips and the like,...
September 13, 1950, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Place Of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Height
5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Profession
Actress
Spouse
Gerald Henson (m. 1916–1918)
Parents
Margaret Allgood, George Allgood
Siblings
Maire O'Neill, Frank Allgood
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Trademark
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Played housekeepers and warm hearted motherly roles
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Fact
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Father: George Allgood; Mother: Margaret Harold.
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Profiled in "Actresses of a Certain Character" by Nils Axel Nissen.
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After the death of her father she was raised in a Dublin orphanage. She later apprenticed as an upholsterer, which was her father's profession.
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Was first enrolled in the National Theatre Society and within a few years became one of Ireland's top theatre actresses.
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While touring Australia and New Zealand in the acclaimed stage play "Peg o' My Heart", she married her leading man, Gerald Henson, in Melbourne in September of 1916. She gave birth to a daughter who lived only one hour, a victim of the influenza epidemic that raged through Melbourne. Her husband also died of the illness shortly afterward.
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While performing in Australia, she had a highly unsatisfactory experience in her debut film, Just Peggy (1918). It was 11 years before she attempted another, with Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929).
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Her sister Molly Allgood, stage name Maire O'Neill, was also a famous actress. A brother, Frank Allgood, died fighting with the British Army during World War I on the Western Front.
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