Hermione Gingold (December 9, 1897 – May 24, 1987) was an English actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona, an image enhanced by her sharp nose and chin, as well as her deepening voice, a result of vocal nodes which her mother encouraged her not to remove. She appeared on stage, on radio, in films, on television, and in recordings. Biography Born Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold in London, England, she was the daughter of a high-class Vienna-born Jewish financier James Gingold and Kate Walter or Walters, an English-born housewife. Her mother must also have been Jewish since her marriage to Lionel in 1894 was conducted by the Chief Rabbi. Her paternal grandparents were the Turkish-born British subject, Moritz "Maurice" Gingold, a London stockbroker, and his Austrian-born wife, Hermine, for whom Hermione Gingold was named. On her father's side she was descended from the celebrated Solomon Sulzer, a famou

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