Molly Raynor (6 May 1903 – 12 March 1976) was a New Zealand–born actress who also worked in the United Kingdom and Australian, known for early film roles in adaptations of Steele Rudd's On Our Selection and Grandad Rudd, and also the films The Hayseeds and Strike Me Lucky.
Biography Raynor was born Molly Rayner (with an "e") 6 May 1903 in Dunedin, New Zealand, to caricature artist Frederick Richards Rayner, born in Swansea, South Wales, and singer and actress Rhoda Blanche Duckworth.
She left New Zealand as a school girl to study music, elocution and singing at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
She married actor and playwright/dramatist John Warwick in 1929. She died in Sydney, Australia, on 12 March 1976.
Shortly after arriving in Sydney, she appeared as one of Mrs. Bennett-White's "Cheer-Oh Girls", a concert party that raised funds for charitable causes relating to soldiers and veterans. She appeared between 1921 and 1927, giving character sketches.
Filmography On Our Selection (1932) as Kate The Hayseeds (1933) as Pansy Regan (credited as Molly Rayner) Strike Me Lucky (1934) as Bates Grandad Rudd(1935) as Amelia Banks Jennifer Hale (1937) as Constance Hall Gaslight uncredited We'll Meet Again (1943) as Mrs. Summers Woman to Woman (1947) as Sylvia's Friend The Pleasure Garden 1947 (TV movie) Music Hall (1949) as herself Dinner at Eight (1951) BBC Sunday Night Theatre (1951) as Carlotta Vance Theatre Royal (1952) as Kitty Lemoyne Dean Mr Beamish Goes South (1953) The Scarlet Web (1954) as Miss Riggs Child's Play (1954) as Mrs Cannon Armchair Theatre (1964) as Mrs. Jordon Number 96 (1972) as Old Lady McManus MPB (1976) as Mrs. O'Rourke
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