Cora Witherspoon (January 5, 1890 – November 17, 1957) was an American stage and film character actress whose career spanned nearly half a century. She began in theatre where she remained rooted even after entering motion pictures in the early 1930s. As Witherspoon’s career progressed, she carved a niche playing haughty society women or harridan housewives such as Princess Lina in Ferenc Molnár's 1928 play Olympia, or Agatha Sousè, W.C. Fields’ domineering spouse in the 1940 film The Bank Dick. John Springer and Jack Hamilton, authors of They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of the 1930s (1974), wrote that "Witherspoon was blessed with a face that might have been drawn by one of those cartoonists who specialize in dealing with the war between men and women."
1954
as Macy's Saleslady (uncredited)
1952
as Mrs. Angevine
1952
as Nurse Salisbury
1951
as Mrs. Williamson
1946
as Edwina Blythe
1946
as Mrs. Abigail Ellsworth
1946
as Carrothers
1946
as Aunt Emeline
1946
as Mrs. Clara Meigs
1945
as Mrs. Peterson - Patient (uncredited)
1945
as Woman
1945
as Mrs. Gates
1943
as Mrs. J.B. Hamlin
1940
as Agatha Sousé
1940
as Aunt Cecile
1940
as Susie Watson
1939
as Mrs. Van Adams
1939
as Carrie
1939
as Mrs. McCoy
1939
as Mamie Thompson
1939
as Fanny
1938
as Aunt Julia Ramsby
1938
as Mrs. Herford
1938
as Countess de Noailles
1938
as Mrs. Ophelia Pitts
1938
as Claudine
1938
as Mrs. Coney
1937
as Mrs. Elizabeth Miller
1937
as Nora
1937
as Elizabeth Simms
1937
as Fanny Worthington
1937
as Patty
1937
as Mrs. Burns
1937
as Aunt Fritz
1937
as Gypsy
1936
as Mrs. Burns-Norvell
1936
as Nesta Pett, Ann's Aunt
1936
as Mrs. Lumpy Thornton
1934
as Suzy Woodbury (uncredited)
1934
as Elizabeth McGrath
1934
as Dottie's Mother
1932
as Lily Pratt
1931
as Aggie Bruno
1931
as Head Nurse
1931
as Saleslady