Acting · Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India] · Born February 19, 1911
Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress of Anglo-Indian origin. Her career spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, and she was a major leading lady during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Born and raised in British India, she began her acting career in British cinema in the early 1930s, with a breakout role in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). She later moved to Hollywood, where she became an international star, earning acclaim for films such as The Dark Angel (1935), Wuthering Heights (1939), and That Uncertain Feeling (1941). Her performance as Kitty Vane in The Dark Angel earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Oberon's other notable roles included A Song to Remember (1945), Berlin Express (1948), and Désirée (1954). A traffic collision in 1937 caused facial injuries that nearly ended her career, but she recovered and remained active in film and television until 1973. Description above from the Wikipedia article Merle Oberon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Charmed Lives: A Family Romance
2028
as Self (archive footage)
MovieChurchill and the Movie Mogul
2019
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Trouble with Merle
2002
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Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
1993
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MovieInterval
1973
as Serena Moore
TVThe American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
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MovieThe Epic That Never Was
1969
as Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
MovieHotel
1967
as The Duchess Caroline
MovieThe Oscar
1966
as Merle Oberon
MovieOf Love and Desire
1963
as Katherine Beckmann
TVThe DuPont Show of the Week
1961
as Self
Assignment Foreign Legion
1956
MovieThe Price of Fear
1956
as Jessica Warren
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
MovieDeep in My Heart
1954
as Dorothy Donnelly
MovieDésirée
1954
as Empress Josephine
MovieAll Is Possible in Granada
1954
as Margaret Faulson
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
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TVThe Oscars
1953
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TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
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TVFour Star Playhouse
1952
as Martha
Movie24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952
as Linda Venning
MovieDans la vie tout s'arrange
1952
as Elizabeth Rockwell
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
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TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Self - Host / Marian Thorne
MoviePardon My French
1951
as Elizabeth Rockwell
TVThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
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TVWhat's My Line?
1950
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TVThe Ed Sullivan Show
1948
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MovieBerlin Express
1948
as Lucienne Mirbeau
MovieNight Song
1948
as Cathy Mallory
MovieTemptation
1946
as Ruby
MovieNight in Paradise
1946
as Delarai
MovieThis Love of Ours
1945
as Karin Touzac
MovieA Song to Remember
1945
as George Sand
MovieDark Waters
1944
as Leslie Calvin
MovieThe Lodger
1944
as Kitty Langley
MovieFirst Comes Courage
1943
as Nicole Larsen
MovieStage Door Canteen
1943
as Merle Oberon
MovieForever and a Day
1943
as Marjorie Ismay
MovieLydia
1941
as Lydia MacMillan
MovieAffectionately Yours
1941
as Sue Mayberry
MovieThat Uncertain Feeling
1941
as Jill Baker
MovieBreakdowns of 1940
1940
as Self
Movie'Til We Meet Again
1940
as Joan Ames
MovieThe Lion Has Wings
1939
as Mrs. Richardson
MovieOver the Moon
1939
as Jane Benson
MovieWuthering Heights
1939
as Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
MovieThe Cowboy and the Lady
1938
as Mary Smith
MovieHollywood Goes to Town
1938
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MovieThe Divorce of Lady X
1938
as Leslie Steele / Lady Claire Mere
MovieI, Claudius
1937
as Messalina
MovieBeloved Enemy
1936
as Helen Drummond
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
1936
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MovieThese Three
1936
as Karen Wright
MovieThe Dark Angel
1935
as Kitty Vane
MovieFolies Bergère de Paris
1935
as Baroness Genevieve Cassini
MovieThe Scarlet Pimpernel
1934
as Lady Marguerite Blakeney
MovieThe Broken Melody
1934
as Germaine Brissard
MovieThe Battle
1934
as Mitsuko Yorisaka
MovieThe Private Life of Don Juan
1934
as Antonita, a Dancer of Passionate Temperament
MovieThe Private Life of Henry VIII
1933
as Anne Boleyn
MovieFor the Love of Mike
1932
as Bit Part
MovieWedding Rehearsal
1932
as Miss Hutchinson
MovieMen of Tomorrow
1932
as Ysobel d'Aunay
MovieAren't We All?
1932
as Bit Part
Ebb Tide
1932
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MovieService for Ladies
1932
as Undetermined Minor Role (uncredited)
MovieFascination
1931
as Flower Seller
MovieNever Trouble Trouble
1931
as Minor Role
MovieA Warm Corner
1930
as Bit Part (uncredited)
MovieThe Three Passions
1928
as Bit Part (uncredited)
