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name: "Jessie Arnold"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jessie-arnold"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 December 1884"
died: "5 May 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:18:22.542967+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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# Jessie Arnold

Actor. Born 3 December 1884 in Lyons, Michigan, USA. Died 5 May 1955.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 December 1884, Lyons, Michigan, USA
- **Died:** 5 May 1955
- **Also known as:** Jesse Arnold, Miss Arnold

## Biography

Jessie Arnold (3 December 1884 – 5 May 1955) was an American character actress who appeared in more than 150 films from the silent era to the early 1950s. Born in Lyons, Michigan, she began her career in silent shorts and features, including *The Wager* (1912), *Shoes* (1916) and *The Dark Mirror* (1920). She toured Australia and the Orient before joining Universal City's stock company in 1916.

Arnold is credited with roles such as Mrs Blake in *The Bitter Tea of General Yen* (1932), Woman at Auto Camp (uncredited) in *It Happened One Night* (1934), Gypsy Woman (uncredited) in *The Wolf Man* (1941) and Schoolteacher / Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) in *The Lady from Shanghai* (1947). She also appeared in *Stella Dallas* (1937), *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), *The Reckless Moment* (1949) and *No Way Out* (1950), often in uncredited parts.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *It Happened One Night* (1934), Fi1m 88, as Woman at Auto Camp (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/it-happened-one-night.md)

## Also known for

- *The Lady from Shanghai* (1947), Schoolteacher / Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- *The Wolf Man* (1941), Gypsy Woman (uncredited)
- *The Reckless Moment* (1949), Old Lady (uncredited)
- *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945), Nurse (uncredited)
- *No Way Out* (1950), Woman (uncredited)
- *The Bitter Tea of General Yen* (1932), Mrs. Blake
- *Stella Dallas* (1937), Ed's Landlady (uncredited)
- *Black Friday* (1940), Nurse

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