Beryl Mercer (13th August, 1882- 28 July 1939) was a Spanish born American actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
Mercer was best known for her motherly roles in film and regularly appeared as a grandmother or cook or maid in some high profile films. She actively appeared in over 50 films between 1916 and 1939 but her career was at a peak in the early- to mid-1930s where she regularly starred in between 5 and 10 pictures a year.
In 1933 Mercer appeared in Cavalcade as a cook and the following year made appearances in Jane Eyre, The Little Minister, and The Richest Girl in the World which went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Script in 1935.
Mercer died in Santa Monica in 1939.
Too short to be a leading lady, Beryl Mercer had a very active and productive career playing motherly characters. She had played opposite of great leading men such as Colin Clive, 'Robert Montgomery' i, James Cagney, 'Gary Cooper' i, 'Leslie Howard' i, Spencer Tracy, and 'Randolph Scott' i. Beryl played Queen Victoria in 'Little Princess' 1939 and 'The Story of Alexander Graham Bell' 1931.
