- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAgnes Teresa McGlade
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Delightful character actress who held her own against such acting heavyweights as Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Tyrone Power, Barbara Stanwyck, and Sydney Greenstreet. Often cast by studio heads as comic relief thanks to her thick Irish accent and rubber-faced expressions, most notably in Universal's horror classics, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and The Invisible Man (1933). Her final role was as the devoted housekeeper in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution (1957), a role she originated on stage. Her hilarious testimony during the trial is one of the film's highlights.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ghosthost7@juno.com
- ChildrenNo Children
- Often played skittish and meddlesome servants
- High pitched shriek
- Often cast by James Whale
- She would not work on any radio program sponsored by a company that distributed or manufactured alcohol in any form.
- She appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Informer (1935), and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
- Began her acting career on stage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland, and had an extensive stage career prior to being in films.
- When Una O'Connor was brought to Hollywood in 1932 to recreate her stage role of Ellen Bridges in "Cavalcade", British critic James Agate wrote that she had established a right to the role "that it would be impertinent and impolitic to contravene.".
- Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - $4,250
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