Biography
Eily Malyon (born Eily Sophie Lees-Craston) was an English character actress. She was born on 30 October 1879 in London and died on 26 September 1961 in South Pasadena, California. Her mother, Agnes Thomas, was also an actress. Malyon began her career on stage in Britain, Australia and America before appearing in films from the early 1930s.
She appeared in more than eighty films, often in supporting roles as stern or severe women such as schoolteachers, maids, nurses and governesses. Among her credits are Mrs. Cruncher in A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Mrs. Barryman in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and Mrs. Carmody in Going My Way (1944).
