Tempe Pigott

Tempe Pigott was an Australian stage and screen character actress who worked in silent and sound films. Before films, she performed on stages in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States. In 1907 she toured Australia with the Lillian Meyers Dramatic Company, then stayed there, where her stage work included Nobody's Daughter in 1911, A Woman of No Importance in 1912, and His House in Order in 1914. She also had a Broadway credit as Mrs. Hubbard in Douglas Murray's Perkins; that production starred Ruth Chatterton and played 23 times at Henry Miller's Theatre in 1918. Her film work started in the 1920s, and she made many silent and sound film appearances. She was remembered mainly for playing John McTeague's mother in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924) and as Mrs. Hawkins, a landlady, in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). She died in 1962.