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name: "Mary Wickes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mary-wickes"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 June 1910"
died: "22 October 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
updated: "2026-09-17T06:29:13.473579+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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# Mary Wickes

Actor. Born 13 June 1910 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 22 October 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 June 1910, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 22 October 1995
- **Active:** 1961–1996
- **Also known as:** Mary Isabella Wickenhauser, Mary Wickenhauser, Mary Wicks, مری ویکس
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 82 (1), 1990s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q263241, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0926897/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20624

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Hunchback of Notre Dame*](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md) (70)

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## Biography

Mary Wickes (born Mary Isabella Wickenhauser) was an American character actress who worked in film, television and theatre from the 1930s to the 1990s. She frequently played supporting roles as prim, professional women such as secretaries, nurses, nuns and housekeepers.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, on 13 June 1910, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in political science before turning to acting. Her Broadway debut came in 1934 in The Farmer Takes a Wife. She appeared in films including White Christmas (1954) and One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), and on television in series such as M*A*S*H and Murder, She Wrote.

Later roles included Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act (1992) and its 1993 sequel, Aunt March in Little Women (1994), and the voice of Gargoyle Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), released after her death. Wickes died on 22 October 1995 in Los Angeles following complications from surgery.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), Fi1m 70, as Gargoyle Laverne (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md)
- *One Hundred and One Dalmatians* (1961), Fi1m 82, as Freckles (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/one-hundred-and-one-dalmatians.md)

## Also known for

- *Sister Act* (1992), Sister Mary Lazarus
- *Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit* (1993), Sister Mary Lazarus
- *Little Women* (1994), Aunt March
- *White Christmas* (1954), Emma Allen
- *Bonanza* (1959), Hattie, Martha
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Alva Crane
- *Postcards from the Edge* (1990), Grandma
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), Blanche Armstaedter, Mrs. Foster the Landlady

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