--- name: "Zasu Pitts" canonical: "https://film.one/person/zasu-pitts" roles: ["Actor"] born: "3 January 1894" died: "7 June 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-19T23:03:51.543811+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." --- # Zasu Pitts Actor. Born 3 January 1894 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA. Died 7 June 1963. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 3 January 1894, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA - **Died:** 7 June 1963 - **Also known as:** Zazu Pitts, Eliza Susan Pitts, ZaSu Pitts, Za Su Pitts - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136646, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686032/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34746 ## Biography ZaSu Pitts was an American actress whose career spanned nearly five decades from the silent era into television. Born Eliza Susan Pitts on 3 January 1894 in Parsons, Kansas, she made her film debut in 1917 and gained early acclaim for dramatic roles, notably as Trina in Erich von Stroheim's *Greed* (1924) and in *The Wedding March* (1928). With the advent of sound films she transitioned primarily to comedy, appearing in supporting roles in films such as *Dames* (1934), *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935) as Mrs. Judson, and *Life with Father* (1947). She also featured in *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* (1963) and worked in television, including a recurring role in *The Gale Storm Show* (1956). Pitts received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. She died on 7 June 1963 in Hollywood, California. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, encyclopedia.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Fi1m 84, as Mrs. Judson — [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md) ## Complete filmography (201) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Big Parade of Comedy* (1964), as Mirabelle in 'The Gay Bride' (archive footage) - *It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World* (1963), as Gertie - Switchboard Operator - *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Mrs. Bowie - *The Thrill of It All* (1963), as Olivia - *Teenage Millionaire* (1961), as Aunt Theodora - *Guestward, Ho!* (1960), series, Actor - *The Dennis O'Keefe Show* (1959), series, Actor - *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Daphne Whilom - *This Could Be the Night* (1957), as Mrs. Shea - *The Gale Storm Show* (1956), series, Actor - *The 20th Century Fox Hour* (1955), series, Actor - *Screen Director's Playhouse* (1955), series, as Selma - *Francis Joins the WACS* (1954), as Valerie Humpert - *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as Aunt Laura - *Private Secretary* (1953), series, Actor - *Denver and Rio Grande* (1952), as Jane Dwyer - *Francis* (1950), as Valerie Humpert - *Lum and Abner* (1949), Actor - *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, as Belinda Pryde - *Life with Father* (1947), as Cousin Cora Cartwright - *The Perfect Marriage* (1947), as Rosa - *Breakfast in Hollywood* (1946), as Elvira Spriggens - *Dear Miss Gloria* (1946), as Guest star - *Let's Face It* (1943), as Cornelia Pigeon - *Tish* (1942), as Aggie Pilkington (as ZaSu Pitts) - *So's Your Aunt Emma!* (1942), as Aunt Emma Bates - *The Bashful Bachelor* (1942), as Geraldine - *Mexican Spitfire at Sea* (1942), as Miss Pepper - *Weekend for Three* (1941), as Anna, Craig's Maid - *The Mexican Spitfire's Baby* (1941), as Emily Pepper - *Miss Polly* (1941), as Pandora Polly - *Uncle Joe* (1941), as Julia Jordan - *Niagara Falls* (1941), as Emmy Sawyer - *Broadway Limited* (1941), as Myra Pottle - *No, No, Nanette* (1940), as Pauline Hastings - *It All Came True* (1940), as Miss Flint - *Eternally Yours* (1939), as Mrs. Bingham - *Nurse Edith Cavell* (1939), as Mme. Moulin - *Mickey the Kid* (1939), as Lilly Handy - *Naughty but Nice* (1939), as Aunt Penelope Hardwick - *The Lady's from Kentucky* (1939), as Dulcey Lee - *52nd Street* (1937), as Letitia Rondell - *Forty Naughty Girls* (1937), as Hildegarde Withers - *Wanted!* (1937), as Winnie Oatfield - *Sing Me a Love Song* (1936), as Gwen Logan - *The Plot Thickens* (1936), as Hildegarde Withers - *Mad Holiday* (1936), as Mrs. Fay Kinney - *13 Hours by Air* (1936), as Miss Harkins - *The Affair of Susan* (1935), as Susan Todd - *Hot Tip* (1935), as Belle McGill - *She Gets Her Man* (1935), as Esmeralda - *Going Highbrow* (1935), as Cora Upshaw - *Spring Tonic* (1935), as Maggie Conklin - *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), as Mrs. Judson — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md) - *The Gay Bride* (1934), as Mirabelle - *Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch* (1934), as Miss Hazy - *Dames* (1934), as Matilda Hemingway - *Their Big Moment* (1934), as Tillie Whim - *Private Scandal* (1934), as Miss Coates - *Love Birds* (1934), as Araminta Tootle - *Sing and Like It* (1934), as Annie Snodgrass - *Three on a Honeymoon* (1934), as Alice Mudge - *Two Alone* (1934), as Esthey Roberts - *The Meanest Gal in Town* (1934), as Tillie Prescott - *Mr. Skitch* (1933), as Maddie Skitch - *Meet the Baron* (1933), as Zasu - *Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men* (1933), as Sybby 'Sib' - *Love, Honor and Oh, Baby!* (1933), as Connie Clark - *Mother's Helper* (1933), Actor - *Her First Mate* (1933), as Mary Horner - *Professional Sweetheart* (1933), as Elmerada - *One Track Minds* (1933), as Zasu Pitts - *Hello, Sister!* (1933), as Millie - *The Bargain of the Century* (1933), as Zasu - *Out All Night* (1933), as Bonny - *The Vanishing Frontier* (1933), as Aunt Sylvia - *Maids a la Mode* (1933), as Miss Pitts - *Asleep in the Feet* (1933), as Zasu - *They Just Had to Get Married* (1933), as Molly Hull - *She Whoops To Conquer* (1933), as Beula - *Sneak Easily* (1932), as Miss Zasu Pitts - Woman of the Jury - *Madison Square Garden* (1932), as Florrie - *The Soilers* (1932), as Zasu - *Once in a Lifetime* (1932), as Miss Leyton - *The Crooked Circle* (1932), as Nora Rafferty - *Alum and Eve* (1932), as Zasu - *Blondie of the Follies* (1932), as Gertie - *Show Business* (1932), as Zasu - *Back Street* (1932), as Mrs. Dole - *Roar of the Dragon* (1932), as Gabby Woman - *Make Me a Star* (1932), as Mrs. Scudder - *Is My Face Red?* (1932), as Morning Gazette Telephone Operator - *The Old Bull* (1932), as Zasu - *Westward Passage* (1932), as Mrs. Truesdale - *Strangers of the Evening* (1932), as Sybil Smith - *The Trial of Vivienne Ware* (1932), as Gladys Fairweather - *Strictly Unreliable* (1932), as Pitts - *Destry Rides Again* (1932), as Temperance Worker - *Shopworn* (1932), as Aunt Dot - *Red Noses* (1932), as Miss Pitts - *Steady Company* (1932), as Dot - *Sealskins* (1932), as Zasu Pitts - *Broken Lullaby* (1932), as Anna, Holderlin's Maid - *The Unexpected Father* (1932), as Polly Perkins - *On the Loose* (1931), as Zasu - *The Secret Witness* (1931), as Bella - *War Mamas* (1931), as Zasu - *The Guardsman* (1931), as Liesl - *The Pajama Party* (1931), as Zasu - *Penrod and Sam* (1931), as Mrs. Bassett - *The Big Gamble* (1931), as Nora Dugan - *Catch-As Catch-Can* (1931), as ZaSu - *Their Mad Moment* (1931), as Miss Dibbs - *A Woman of Experience* (1931), as Katie - *Let's Do Things* (1931), as Zasu Pitts - *Seed* (1931), as Jennie - *Beyond Victory* (1931), as Fritzi Mobley - *The Bad Sister* (1931), as Minnie - *Finn and Hattie* (1931), as Mrs. Hattie Haddock - *Passion Flower* (1930), as Mrs. Harney - *Free Love* (1930), as Ada, the Maid - *War Nurse* (1930), as Cushie - *Sin Takes a Holiday* (1930), as Annie - *River's End* (1930), as Louise - *The Lottery Bride* (1930), as Hilda - *Monte Carlo* (1930), as Bertha - *The Squealer* (1930), as Bella - *Little Accident* (1930), as Monica - *The Devil's Holiday* (1930), as Ethel - *Honey* (1930), as Mayme - *No, No, Nanette* (1930), as Pauline Hastings - *The Honeymoon* (1929), as Caecilia - *This Thing Called Love* (1929), as Clara Bertrand - *The Locked Door* (1929), as Telephone Girl - *Paris* (1929), as Harriet - *Oh, Yeah!* (1929), as The Elk - *Her Private Life* (1929), as Timmins - *The Argyle Case* (1929), as Mrs. Wyatt - *Twin Beds* (1929), as Tillie - *The Squall* (1929), as Lena - *The Dummy* (1929), as Rose Gleason - *Sins of the Fathers* (1928), as Mother Spengler - *The Wedding March* (1928), as Cecelia Schweisser - *Buck Privates* (1928), as Hulda - *13 Washington Square* (1928), as The Maid - *Wife Savers* (1928), as Germaine - *Casey at the Bat* (1927), as Camille - *Her Big Night* (1926), as Gladys Smith - *Risky Business* (1926), as Agnes Wheaton - *Sunny Side Up* (1926), as Evelyn - *The Great Love* (1926), as Nancy - *Early to Wed* (1926), as Mrs. Dugan - *Monte Carlo* (1926), as Hope Durant - *What Happened to Jones?* (1926), as Hilda (as Zazu Pitts) - *Mannequin* (1926), as Annie Pogani - *Wages for Wives* (1925), as Luella Logan - *Lazybones* (1925), as Ruth Fanning - *Thunder Mountain* (1925), as Mandy Coulter - *Pretty Ladies* (1925), as Maggie Keenan - *A Woman's Faith* (1925), as Blanche Odile - *Old Shoes* (1925), Actor - *The Great Divide* (1925), as Polly Jordan - *The Re-Creation of Brian Kent* (1925), as Judy - *Greed* (1924), as Trina - *Secrets of the Night* (1924), as Celia Stebbins - *The Fast Set* (1924), as Mona - *Changing Husbands* (1924), as Delia - *The Goldfish* (1924), as Amelia Pugsley - *Daughters of Today* (1924), as Lorena - *West of the Water Tower* (1924), as Dessie Arnhalt - *Tea- With a Kick!* (1923), as 'Brainy' Jones - *Hollywood* (1923), as Zasu Pitts - *Three Wise Fools* (1923), as Mickey - *Mary of the Movies* (1923), as Zasu Pitts (uncredited) - *The Girl Who Came Back* (1923), as Anastasia Muldoon - *Poor Men's Wives* (1923), as Apple Annie - *Youth to Youth* (1922), as Emily - *For the Defense* (1922), as Jennie Dunn - *Is Matrimony a Failure?* (1922), as Mrs. Wilbur - *A Daughter of Luxury* (1922), as Mary Cosgrove - *Patsy* (1921), as Patsy - *Heart of Twenty* (1920), as Katie Abbott - *Seeing It Through* (1920), as Betty Lawrence - *Poor Relations* (1919), as Daisy Perkins - *The Other Half* (1919), as Jennie Jones, The Jazz Kid - *Better Times* (1919), as Nancy Scroggs - *Men, Women, and Money* (1919), as Katie Jones - *As the Sun Went Down* (1919), as Sal Sue - *A Lady's Name* (1918), as Emily - *The Talk of the Town* (1918), Actor - *A Society Sensation* (1918), as Mary - *How Could You, Jean?* (1918), as Oscar's Sweetheart - *A Modern Musketeer* (1917), as A Kansas Belle (uncredited) - *A Little Princess* (1917), as Becky - *'49 – '17* (1917), as Party Guest (uncredited) - *Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm* (1917), as Undetermined Role (uncredited) - *His Fatal Beauty* (1917), as Perscilla - *A Desert Dilemma* (1917), Actor - *Tillie of the Nine Lives* (1917), Actor - *Uneasy Money* (1917), as Suza - the Editor's Assistant - *Why They Left Home* (1917), as Mary Mandrake ## Gallery - ![Zasu Pitts](https://film.one/media/person/1228546/gallery-59904d350232.jpg) Zasu Pitts — Picture-Play Magazine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/ZaSu_Pitts_PP234.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Zasu Pitts, silent film actress, from the film The Fast Set (1924). 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