Updated at December 12, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Ethel Griffies |
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Birthdate | April 26, 1878 |
Birth Place | England |
Age (in 2024) | 146 Years Old |
Zodiac | Taurus |
Occupation | Movie Actress |
Ethel Griffies is best known as Movie Actress who has born on April 26, 1878 in England. Currently, Ethel Griffies is 146 years, 7 months and 16 days old. Ethel Griffies will celebrate 147th birthday on Saturday, 26th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Ethel Griffies upcoming birthday.
Remembered for her work on both stage and screen, this British actress appeared in The Autumn Garden (1951), Ivanov (1966), and close to twenty other Broadway productions; guest starred in episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Lights Out, and Kraft Theatre; and appeared in films such as Saratoga Trunk (1945) and The Homestretch (1947).
She performed in her first London stage production in 1899 and went on to make her Broadway debut in a 1904 production of Havoc.
She played the character Grace Poole in the 1934 and 1943 screen adaptations of Charlotte Bronte's famous novel Jane Eyre.
The child of stage performers Lillie Roberts and Samuel Rupert Woods, Griffies (born Ethel Woods) spent her youth in Sheffield, England. Following the death of her first husband, Walter Beaumont, she was married to English actor Edward Cooper for four decades (until his death in 1956).
Late in her career, she played Mrs. Bundy in the famous 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds.
Ethel Griffies is 146 years old today.
Ethel Griffies was born on April 26, 1878 in England.
Ethel Griffies zodiac sign is Taurus.
Ethel Griffies was best known as Movie Actress.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Ethel Griffies's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1970 | The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. |
1981 | Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. |
1982 | Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. |
1986 | The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
1989 | The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. |
1989 | People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests. |
1991 | Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. |
1993 | The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. |
1994 | China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. |
1994 | South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. |
2002 | Robert SteinhÀuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot. |
2005 | Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). |
2015 | Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote. |
2018 | American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault. |
2019 | Marvel Studios' blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar. |
1989 | The birth of Kang Daesung, South Korean singer |
1990 | The birth of Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012) |
1991 | The birth of Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer |
1991 | The birth of Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer |
1991 | The birth of Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer |
1991 | The birth of Srdjan Pejicic, Canadian/Bosnian basketball player |
1991 | The birth of Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish bicycle racer |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Judge, American baseball player |
1992 | The birth of Delon Wright, American basketball player |
1994 | The birth of Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver |
1996 | The birth of Jordan Pefok, American footballer |
2001 | The birth of Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer |
2002 | The birth of Meagan Best, Barbadian squash player |
2009 | The death of Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920) |
2010 | The death of Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930) |
2010 | The death of Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942) |
2011 | The death of Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1950) |
2012 | The death of Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938) |
2013 | The death of Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930) |
2013 | The death of George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (b. 1979) |
2015 | The death of Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919) |
2015 | The death of Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930) |
2016 | The death of Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937) |
2017 | The death of Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1944) |
2022 | The death of Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (b. 1947) |
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