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name: "Beryl Mercer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/beryl-mercer"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 August 1882"
died: "28 July 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 62
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T22:14:22.969198+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Beryl Mercer

Actor. Born 11 August 1882 in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain. Died 28 July 1939.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 August 1882, Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
- **Died:** 28 July 1939
- **Active:** 1931–1933
- **Also known as:** Берил Мерсер
- **Frequently works with:** [Clive Brook](https://film.one/person/clive-brook.md), [Frank Lloyd](https://film.one/person/frank-lloyd-72061.md), [Winfield Sheehan](https://film.one/person/winfield-r-sheehan.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 62, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Mercer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2065508, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0580240/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2018

## Biography

Beryl Mercer was a Spanish-born actress who worked primarily in the United States on stage and screen. Born in Seville to British parents, she began performing as a child and made her Broadway debut in 1906. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions through the 1920s, including *Outward Bound* (1924) as Mrs Midget.

Mercer appeared in more than fifty films between 1916 and 1939, often in maternal or elderly supporting roles. Among her credits are *All Quiet on the Western Front* (1930), *The Public Enemy* (1931), *East Lynne* (1931) as Joyce, *Cavalcade* (1933) as Cook, *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1939) and *The Little Princess* (1939). She died in Santa Monica, California, in 1939.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Cavalcade* (1933), Fi1m 57, as Cook — [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)
- *Smilin' Through* (1932), Fi1m 67, as Mrs. Crouch — [page](https://film.one/film/smilin-through.md)

## Complete filmography (54)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Woman is the Judge* (1939), as Mrs. Butler
- *The Story of Alexander Graham Bell* (1939), as Queen Victoria
- *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (1939), as Mrs. Jennifer Mortimer
- *The Little Princess* (1939), as Queen
- *Night Must Fall* (1937), as Saleslady
- *Call It a Day* (1937), as Mrs. Elkins, the Cook
- *My Marriage* (1936), as Mrs. Dolan
- *Three Live Ghosts* (1936), as Mrs. Gubbins
- *Magnificent Obsession* (1935), as Mrs. Eden
- *Hitch Hike Lady* (1935), as Mrs. Bayne
- *Forbidden Heaven* (1935), as Agnes, 'The Duchess'
- *Age of Indiscretion* (1935), as Mrs. Williams
- *The Little Minister* (1934), as Margaret
- *The Richest Girl in the World* (1934), as Maid
- *Jane Eyre* (1934), as Mrs. Fairfax
- *Change of Heart* (1934), as Harriet Hawkins
- *Broken Dreams* (1933), as Mom
- *Her Splendid Folly* (1933), as Mrs. McAllister
- *Berkeley Square* (1933), as Mrs. Barwick
- *Blind Adventure* (1933), as Elsie
- *Supernatural* (1933), as Madame Gourjan, Paul's landlady
- *Cavalcade* (1933), as Cook — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/cavalcade.md)
- *6 Hours to Live* (1932), as The Widow
- *Smilin' Through* (1932), as Mrs. Crouch — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/smilin-through.md)
- *Midnight Morals* (1932), as Mother O'Brien, the Prison Matron
- *Unholy Love* (1932), as Mrs. Cawley
- *No Greater Love* (1932), as Mrs. Burns
- *Young America* (1932), as Grandma Beamish
- *Lena Rivers* (1932), as Grandmother Nichols
- *Devil's Lottery* (1932), as Mrs. Mary Ann Meech
- *Lovers Courageous* (1932), as Mrs. Smith
- *Forgotten Women* (1931), as Fern Madden
- *Are These Our Children?* (1931), as Mrs. Martin
- *The Sky Spider* (1931), as Mother Morgan
- *Merely Mary Ann* (1931), as Mrs. Leadbatter
- *The Miracle Woman* (1931), as Mrs. Higgins
- *The Man in Possession* (1931), as Mrs. Dabney
- *The Public Enemy* (1931), as Ma Powers
- *East Lynne* (1931), as Joyce
- *Inspiration* (1931), as Marthe, Yvonne's Maid
- *Outward Bound* (1930), as Mrs. Midget
- *An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee* (1930), as Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures
- *The Matrimonial Bed* (1930), as Corinne
- *Common Clay* (1930), as Mrs. Neal
- *In Gay Madrid* (1930), as Doña Concha
- *Dumb-bells in Ermine* (1930), as Grandma Corey
- *All Quiet on the Western Front* (1930), as Paul's Mother
- *Seven Days Leave* (1930), as Sarah Ann Dowey
- *Three Live Ghosts* (1929), as Mrs. Gubbins
- *Mother's Boy* (1929), as Mrs.O'Day
- *We Americans* (1928), as Mrs. Levine
- *The Christian* (1923), as Liza
- *Broken Chains* (1922), as Mrs. Mulcahy
- *The Final Curtain* (1916), as Mary

## Gallery

- ![Beryl Mercer](https://film.one/media/person/1225174/gallery-b57a56afa1fc.jpg) Beryl Mercer — photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Beryl_Mercer%2C_c._1918.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Beryl Mercer and Shirley Temple in The Little Princess (1939) - cropped screenshot](https://film.one/media/person/1225174/gallery-57f798c23aa3.jpg) Beryl Mercer and Shirley Temple in The Little Princess (1939) - cropped screenshot — film screenshot - DVD (20th Century Fox), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Shirley_Temple_in_Beryl_Mercer_in_The_Little_Princess.jpg/1280px-Shirley_Temple_in_Beryl_Mercer_in_The_Little_Princess.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Still from the American drama film We Americans (1928) with George Sidney, on page 16 of the January 28, 1928 Universal Weekly.](https://film.one/media/person/1225174/gallery-effea54b5ba1.jpg) Still from the American drama film We Americans (1928) with George Sidney, on page 16 of the January 28, 1928 Universal Weekly. — Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/We_Americans_%281928%29_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Beryl Mercer](https://film.one/media/person/1225174/gallery-60e8050e649e.jpg) Beryl Mercer — Image via TMDB
- ![Beryl Mercer](https://film.one/media/person/1225174/gallery-5c21d0d91e00.jpg) Beryl Mercer — Image via TMDB

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