Edna Best

Actor 1923–2026 (103 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Highest Rated

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951 · as Lady Anne Pettigrew

8.8

The Calendar

1931 · as Jill Panniford

8.0

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · as Martha Huggins

7.5

Known For

Film

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Martha Huggins

Film

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Jill Lawrence

Film

Intermezzo: A Love Story

Margit Brandt

Film

The Iron Curtain

Mrs. Albert Foster

Film

Swiss Family Robinson

Elizabeth Robinson

Film

The Late George Apley

Catherine Apley

Film

A Dispatch from Reuters

Ida Magnus Reuter

Film

South Riding

Sarah Barton

Filmography

Acting (23)

Movies (19)

Alfred Hitchcock: The Unseen Home Movies

2026

as Self

The Iron Curtain

1948

as Mrs. Albert Foster

6.0

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

as Martha Huggins

7.5

The Late George Apley

1947

as Catherine Apley

6.9

Swiss Family Robinson

1940

as Elizabeth Robinson

5.7

A Dispatch from Reuters

1940

as Ida Magnus Reuter

6.1

Intermezzo: A Love Story

as Margit Brandt

South Riding

as Sarah Barton

Prison Without Bars

as Yvonne Chanel

The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Jill Lawrence

The Key

as Norah Kerr

The Faithful Heart

as Blackie Anderway / Blackie's Daughter

The Calendar

as Jill Panniford

Michael and Mary

as Mary Rowe

Escape!

1930

as The Gentlewoman In Bed

6.0

Beyond the Cities

1930

as Mary Hayes

Sleeping Partners

1930

as She

Loose Ends

1930

as Nina Grant

A Couple of Down and Outs

1923

as Molly Roarke

Television (4)

The United States Steel Hour

1953

as Dorothy Redford

6.2

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Lady Anne Pettigrew

8.8

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

as Pauline Martin

6.0

The Philco Television Playhouse

1948

6.3