---
name: "Mady Berry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mady-berry"
fi1m_id: "mady-berry"
imdb_id: "nm0077620"
tmdb_id: 97252
wikidata_id: "Q3276269"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 October 1887"
died: "18 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:50.662459+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."
---

# Mady Berry

## Identity

Mady Berry

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mady-berry
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mady-berry
- **IMDb ID:** nm0077620
- **TMDB ID:** 97252
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3276269
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mady_Berry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276269, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077620/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97252

Actor. Born 4 October 1887 in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France. Died 18 January 1965.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 October 1887, Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France
- **Died:** 18 January 1965
- **Also known as:** Madeleine Van Blitz, Мади Берри, Maddy Berry
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mady_Berry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3276269, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077620/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97252

## Biography

Mady Berry (also credited as Madeleine Van Blitz) was a French stage and film actress. She studied at the conservatoire in Nice and made her stage debut in Marseille in 1912. She began appearing in films in 1930 and worked regularly in French cinema for the next three decades.

Berry is known for supporting roles including La concierge in *Daybreak* (1939) and Madame Quinquina in *Gates of the Night* (1946), both directed by Marcel Carné. She appeared in around eighty films, often playing maternal or domestic characters, and also worked in German productions such as *Don Quixote* (1933).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Daybreak* (1939), Fi1m 82, as La concierge — [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md)

## Complete filmography (83)

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

- *Les Trois Sœurs* (1960), as Anfissa, wet nurse
- *Le souffle du désir* (1958), Actor
- *The Ostrich Has Two Eggs* (1957), as Leonie
- *My Husband Is Marvelous* (1953), as Germaine
- *A Caprice of Darling Caroline* (1953), as Marchioness of Montelone
- *Matrimonial Agency* (1952), as The concierge
- *Monsieur Octave* (1951), Actor
- *Vendetta in Camargue* (1950), as Madame Hurchart
- *One Only Loves Once* (1950), as Marie
- *Nous avons tous fait la même chose* (1950), as Marraine
- *The Story of Dr. Louise* (1949), as Mme. Paput
- *The Unknown N° 13* (1949), as Housekeeper Maria
- *Vire-vent* (1949), as Mother Donadieu
- *Scandals of Clochemerle* (1948), as La mère Brodequin
- *The Eleven O'Clock Woman* (1948), as Brigitte Tassin
- *Gates of the Night* (1946), as Madame Quinquina
- *Star Without Light* (1946), as Mélanie
- *L'ange qu'on m'a donné* (1946), as Nane
- *Twilight* (1944), as Mme Michon
- *Six Little Girls in White* (1942), as Pauline
- *Radio Surprises* (1940), as Mrs. Bontemps
- *There's No Tomorrow* (1940), as Mme. Midu, concierge
- *The Path of Honor* (1939), as Hotel owner
- *Personal Column* (1939), as La cuisinière Sidonie
- *Immediate Call* (1939), Actor
- *Daybreak* (1939), as La concierge — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/daybreak.md)
- *The World Will Shake* (1939), as Madame Bécu (uncredited)
- *The Mayor's Dilemma* (1939), as Maria
- *The Five Cents of Lavarede* (1939), as Mrs. Benoît, concierge
- *Le Prince Bouboule* (1939), as Madame Leroy, Eugène's mother
- *Le Mariage de Véréna* (1938), Actor
- *Les Rois de la flotte* (1938), Actor
- *Troubled Heart* (1938), as Aurélie
- *Une de la cavalerie* (1938), Actor
- *Les Deux Combinards* (1938), as Egg seller
- *Rasputin* (1938), as Dounia
- *The Puritan* (1938), as Madame Kelly
- *Bouquets from Nicholas* (1938), as Grocer
- *The Ladies in the Green Hats* (1937), as Ernestine
- *Ballerina* (1937), as Célestine
- *La Fille de la Madelon* (1937), Actor
- *La Rose effeuillée* (1937), as La cuisinière
- *The Citadel of Silence* (1937), as The landlady of the hotel
- *The Call of Life* (1937), as The mother of a patient
- *Arsène Lupin, Detective* (1937), as Victoire
- *Champs-Elysees* (1937), as Eulalie
- *La Reine des resquilleuses* (1937), Actor
- *Blanchette* (1937), as Mom Rousset
- *French White Cargo* (1937), as Madame Blanco
- *Trois... six... neuf* (1937), as Concierge
- *Girls of Paris* (1936), as Madame Maubert
- *Rigolboche* (1936), as Mme Corbin
- *Prête-moi ta femme* (1936), Actor
- *La brigade en jupons* (1936), as Concierge
- *The Flame* (1936), as Mrs. Laure
- *The Land That Dies* (1936), as 'La Michelonne'
- *Coup de vent* (1936), Actor
- *Jeunes filles à marier* (1935), as Mme Guéneau
- *Quadrille d'amour* (1935), as Aunt Eugénie
- *Mam'zelle Spahi* (1934), as La Colonelle
- *La dactylo se marie* (1934), as Thérèse
- *S. S. Tenacity* (1934), as Madame Cordier
- *At the End of the World* (1934), as Marie-Jeanne
- *Une fois dans la vie* (1934), as Mélanie's mother
- *The Scandal* (1934), as Madame Férioul
- *Les deux papas* (1934), Actor
- *Children of Montmartre* (1933), as Mme. Paulin
- *La Femme invisible* (1933), Actor
- *Don Quixote* (1933), as Sancho Panza's Wife
- *Le Crime du Bouif* (1933), as Mme Bicard
- *Our Lord's Vineyard* (1932), Actor
- *Fun in the Barracks* (1932), as Madame Bijou, canteen lady
- *He* (1932), as Virginie
- *Amourous Adventure* (1932), as Mrs. Touzet
- *Durand versus Durand* (1931), as Mrs. Dieudonné
- *Gloria* (1931), as Thérèse
- *Moon over Morocco* (1931), as Stephanie, the housekeeper
- *All That Is Not Worth Love* (1931), as Mme. Cordier
- *Mam'zelle Nitouche* (1931), as (uncredited)
- *Polish Jew* (1931), Actor
- *The girl and the boy* (1931), as Mme Bientôt
- *The King of the Gate Crashers* (1930), as Madame Francis
- *The Road Is Fine* (1929), as Madame Landrin

## Gallery

- ![Mady Berry, actrice française](https://film.one/media/person/3858329/gallery-8303856176ef.jpg) Mady Berry, actrice française — La Presse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Mady_Berry.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Madeleine Renaud and Mady Berry in La maternelle](https://film.one/media/person/3858329/gallery-43a6af67eee5.jpg) Madeleine Renaud and Mady Berry in La maternelle — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Madeleine_Renaud_and_Mady_Berry_-_La_maternelle_%281934%29_%2853044685446%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mady Berry](https://film.one/media/person/3858329/gallery-70c9dfcb9c79.jpg) Mady Berry — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Recueil.%22Le_complexe_de_Phil%C3%A9mon%22_de_Christian-G%C3%A9rard_d%27apr%C3%A8s_Jean-Bernard_Luc_-_btv1b105350372_%28026_of_107%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mady Berry](https://film.one/media/person/3858329/gallery-8afc3b2f2cc8.jpg) Mady Berry — Image via TMDB

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