Penelope Wilton is an amazing actress - so understated and affable, yet so much generosity and emotion in her performances. And she seems a wonderful person in real life too, from interviews but more importantly, what others say about her… She and Maggie Smith played off each other beautifully…
I was heartbroken when her character died in the second Downton Abbey movie and now, I am REALLY heartbroken. It is like a gigantic oak tree you loved is suddenly removed from a familiar landscape.
Her greatness lay in her subtly and her understanding of the nuance. She could also deliver power, anger, and comedy in the same doses... Im truly gutted... You will sooooo be missed... RIP... dear Dame Maggie Smith.. 💔💔💔
Her greatest achievment is that she was and still is loved by so many people from different generations. Some saw her as Miss Jean Brodie. Others grew up with her as Minerva McGonagall. And they all love her because she was brilliant in every role.
The writers of Downton gave Maggie some fantastically funny lines, and Maggie delivered them with beautiful wit and charm. I loved her facial expressions when she was delivering her withering comments! Hilarious! Rest in peace Maggie.
Dame Maggie the magnificent. To state she was a briliant actress is an understatement. Thank you Graeme O'Neil for a wonderful compilation from those who knew her and worked with her.
She was mentally and physically able until her last breath.. this is much more important than whether or not she aged "gracefully/beautifully" and with or without cosmetic surgery
@@xyincognitoYes, that is of course true but her lack of pretension and artifice especially in the most superficial of professions and her grace and dignity was surely a matter of choice in how she lived and aged.
What a formidable and beautiful talent Dame Maggie was, she will be forever missed and shall always be in our hearts. One of the nations greats, gone yes, but will never be forgotten. RIP Dame Maggie, may your long deserved rest be a journey as significant and as stunning, as the one you embarked upon, here on earth. I hope at the next NTA's, the lifetime achievement award, is duly granted to you and your memory. Fly high darling ❤
She made the show. I absolutely love Downton Abbey and I have watched the entire series over and over and I always look forward to Maggie's lines. She really did make me laugh and then cry at the same time. I will miss her.
I very much enjoyed this video. Well done for mixing the tributes with the clips of the show. And lovely to see that interview with Penelope and Maggie - it must be difficult both to give an accept such praise but how marvelous that she was able to tell it to her in person.
The day she passed I watched "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" I loved the accent in that where she kept talking about "my gerrols" (my girls) Such a wonderful actress!!
I had not heard of Dame Maggie Smith’s passing. What a beautiful person and incredible artist and force to be reckoned with on screen. She was fantastic in everything she was ever in because she was the epitome of a true actor who didn’t settle for less than. You’ve given us a plethora of emotions throughout the years, but your passing is only sadness. For your family, friends and millions of fans. Rest well, Maggie. Thank you for everything. A true master of the craft for well over half of a century. ❤️🩹✝️🎭🏆🎬
She was a great actress and her legacy of so many roles on stage and movie and tv show it. My favorite movie with her is Tea With Mussolini and that ensemble cast, also a later one, The Lady in the Van is remarkable. She was intrepid, formidable, extremely intelligent and had the most remarkable timing.
There are no words to truly describe her brilliance. Downton Abbey was her crowning role, and I've seen her in so many performances. This role shows every facet of her abilities.
Such a sad day when we heard of her passing. It sometimes seems that we are in a time when the greats of the theatre tradition in the United Kingdom are being taken from us too quickly, those whose career started on the stage and who never expected to become international film or television stars. Dame Edith Evans, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson were all of a slightly older generation. Recently we have lost Sir Michael Gambon, the wonderful Tom Wilkinson and Alan Rickman of the gorgeously expressive dark voice. Dame Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Dame Julie Andrews, Dame Penelope Wilton, Dame Patricia Routledge, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen (whom I saw play Richard II and Edward II at the Edinburgh Festival in my far off youth), Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Tom Courtenay amongst others are all in or very close to their 80s - in one case in their 90s. Will future generations ever have an opportunity of seeing a similar galaxy of talent on the British stages?
Rip Maggie. You bridged the gap of young and old. Most children will remember you, as Minerva and adults also as the dowager. But I also remember the prime of Miss Jean Brodie. A star has gone out tonight. ❤
Maggie inhabited every role she played. She found so many new young fans as Professor McGonagall. My hope is that they have watched her any many things since. She will be so missed.
“Desmonia”? That’s Desdemona, the female lead in Shakespeare’s Othello. Smith’s film performance of that role in the 1960s resulted in an Academy Award nomination, and the film holds the record for the most nominations for a movie version of a Shakespeare play. I can only imagine what Dame Maggie would say about that mispronunciation of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known female characters.
This guy needs to slow down a fraction and think about what he's saying. Or at least do a retake if he flubs it. I don't say it to be unkind, just to be real.
@@difrancophile Agreed. I don't get it - if you're going to be speaking on camera as a profession, that the person doesn't understand that they need to speak in a way that we can hear clearly so we don't struggle to understand what's being said. My 2 cents...
“Downton Abbey” fans who haven’t seen its precursor film, “Gosford Park,” also written by Julian Fellowes, and directed by Robert Altman, must do so. A send-up of British murder mysteries set in the 1930s, Smith’s performance as Constance, Countess of Trentham (get it: Trentham -> Grantham?) was Oscar-nominated, and is well known to have evolved into Lady Violet. As usual, Dame Maggie steals every scene she’s in, although the whole star-studded film is delightful. The costume designer deservedly won an Oscar. One of my all-time favorites, I curl up and indulge myself in a viewing about once a year.
My eyes water every time I see one of these videos. Even though she has left us with many great characters, my two favorites are Professor McGonagall and The Dowager Countess. RIP
I watched time in time yesterday. I love downtown abby. I convinced my sister to watch it. Thats been since it started on TV. I think it was channel 3 on Sundays. I missed episodes but I Was happy it is on prime to watch it. Thank you cast for a great show
Brilliant performance,as always, in Downton, as Violet Crawley the Dowager Countess of Grantham, but my first,& favourite encounter with the fine actor Maggie Smith is when she portrayed Miss Jean Brodie ,in the 1969 movie adaptation of Muriel Spark's ,'The Prime of Miss Jean Bodie'. Maggie Smith, as always, embodied the character of Jean Brodie 2nd to none!
I agree. Please spare a thought for those who are deaf/very hard of hearing. We rely on clear speech to cope with hearing aids. The Closed Captions produce some really weird translations of your presentation! Don't forget, those who are deaf are not necessarily blind and dumb as well!
Dame Maggie was a spectacular star. May she rest in peace.
My favourite line " Mrs Crawley "How you hate to be wrong"
Lady Grantham "I wouldn't know, I'm not familiar with the sensation"
😂😂
If Maggie Smith was in a scene... i waited with baited breath for her to give one of her one-liners.
She was perfection!!
I'm glad you included the interview with Maggie Smith and Penelope Wilton.
I loved the show, but I REALLY loved when these two great actresses did scenes together. They played off each other so perfectly. RIP, Maggie!
Penelope Wilton is an amazing actress - so understated and affable, yet so much generosity and emotion in her performances. And she seems a wonderful person in real life too, from interviews but more importantly, what others say about her… She and Maggie Smith played off each other beautifully…
I was heartbroken when her character died in the second Downton Abbey movie and now, I am REALLY heartbroken. It is like a gigantic oak tree you loved is suddenly removed from a familiar landscape.
I loved the line, "What is a weekend?"
Maggie was a gem in....
EVERYTHING!! 💎
What a lovely tribute!
I like that Maggie heard those lovely sentiments from Penelope.
Harriot Jones, Prime Minister.
Her greatness lay in her subtly and her understanding of the nuance. She could also deliver power, anger, and comedy in the same doses... Im truly gutted... You will sooooo be missed... RIP... dear Dame Maggie Smith.. 💔💔💔
Rest in peace dear lady ..and thank you …God bless your soul …
The absolute SHADE Dame Maggie could throw with just a lift of her eyebrow is an art form.
Wonderful Lady - Great Actress - will NOT be Forgotten - RIP
RIP Dame Maggie. I watched Downton because of you. ❤😢🎉⚓🙏💔
Me, too!
I really enjoyed Downtown with Dame Maggie in it. So sorry that she passed.. RIP 🙏
One of the finest actresses to grace the stage and screen...she will be greatly missed...
This tribute was absolutely note-perfect. Thank you, Graeme O'Neil. Maggie Smith was the epitome of a "grande dame." May she rest in splendid peace.
Her greatest achievment is that she was and still is loved by so many people from different generations. Some saw her as Miss Jean Brodie. Others grew up with her as Minerva McGonagall. And they all love her because she was brilliant in every role.
As a fan since Miss Jean Brodie, this was wonderful, and I thank you so much for doing this.
I am so sad she is gone. I am so happy she left a legacy behind to enjoy. I absolutely love her...
Wow Penelope Wilton's praise of her actually brought a tear to my eye. That was so sweet.
3:50 "I've hated it for half a century." Ever since I turned 50 a couple years ago I now express time in fractions of a century because of this line.
The writers of Downton gave Maggie some fantastically funny lines, and Maggie delivered them with beautiful wit and charm. I loved her facial expressions when she was delivering her withering comments! Hilarious! Rest in peace Maggie.
Dame Maggie was a great actrice, a touching human being and a great Lady. She and her talent will live forever and will inspire young generations.
One of my very favorites, very touching tribute!
Absolutely great lady!! Loved watching her !!❤😢
One of the better tributes I have seen. Thank you!
Dame Maggie the magnificent. To state she was a briliant actress is an understatement. Thank you Graeme O'Neil for a wonderful compilation from those who knew her and worked with her.
One of the best !
Thank you
R.I.P.
Don't you love the way she aged so beautifully without facial cosmetic surgery? Younger actresses should take note...
The Dame had pure style.
she was a true LADY :)
She was mentally and physically able until her last breath.. this is much more important than whether or not she aged "gracefully/beautifully" and with or without cosmetic surgery
@@xyincognitoYes, that is of course true but her lack of pretension and artifice especially in the most superficial of professions and her grace and dignity was surely a matter of choice in how she lived and aged.
It’s not only younger actresses.
Joan Rivers and Kathie Lee Gifford come to mind…..
What a fantastic video! Well done! RIP, Dame Maggie.
Oh my! Dame Maggie Smith is a legend. She is the biggest gift to all of mankind. We ADORE her and will always love her. Rest in Peace my dear.
A huge part of England has fallen away from us never to return. Thank you, Dame Maggie. To us across the Pond, you were our beloved British cousin.
And now Timothy West has gone, too. The perfect Flashman.
ms. smith was the most wonderful actress and person! i will miss her very, very much!
I’ve spent most of the day watching her scenes from Downton Abbey ❤️ Such a unique and gifted talent R. I. P. To a beautiful legend
To me the best line she had in Downton Abbey was, "What's a weekend?"
Oh dear heaven! That is MY favourite line! The best ever! And the way she delivers it … !
I can't pick only one as she delivered many hilarious lines. Downton Abbey won't be the same without her. The world lost one of their best 🥺
I have that on a mug for Christmas 2 years ago!
And she passed on a Friday, so it's most appropriate.
@@CitySlickerButtKicker Me, too!
One of a kind…..matched by no one although many have tried. RIP, Dame Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith a true thespian! R.I.P to one of our English Greatest actors ever. 🙏🏾💝🙏🏾
What a formidable and beautiful talent Dame Maggie was, she will be forever missed and shall always be in our hearts. One of the nations greats, gone yes, but will never be forgotten. RIP Dame Maggie, may your long deserved rest be a journey as significant and as stunning, as the one you embarked upon, here on earth.
I hope at the next NTA's, the lifetime achievement award, is duly granted to you and your memory.
Fly high darling ❤
Goodbye Maggie Rest in peace
Won the oscar in 1969 for best actress and again in 1979 for supporting actress
She made the show. I absolutely love Downton Abbey and I have watched the entire series over and over and I always look forward to Maggie's lines. She really did make me laugh and then cry at the same time. I will miss her.
Yes,without doubt,Maggie Smith was a One of a kind actor and Human Being.Thank you,for sharing this.
What a wonderful tribute video. Thank you.
I'm really going to miss Maggie Smith movies. She was such a good actress. Loved her in Downton Abbey. RIP Maggie
She lived a long and prosperous life and her movies and shows will live a long time .
I very much enjoyed this video. Well done for mixing the tributes with the clips of the show. And lovely to see that interview with Penelope and Maggie - it must be difficult both to give an accept such praise but how marvelous that she was able to tell it to her in person.
God bless her! She will be missed by all of us!🙏❤️🇬🇧
I didnt knew her, but i LOVE her humour... I can only say thank you Maggie for making sure the world will never forget your name.
ON OF THE GREATS. A TRUE ICONIC....I JUST LOVED HER ..
This was such a lovely tribute to Dame Maggie Smith, She was 1 in a million, fantastic actress, she will be greatly missed RIP
I first saw Maggie in an off Broadway one woman show "Lettuce and Lovage". I was blown away by her God given talent. I shall miss her😢
The day she passed I watched "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" I loved the accent in that where she kept talking about "my gerrols" (my girls) Such a wonderful actress!!
She was glorious.Thank you for this fantastic compilation.
In every scene, she was the scene. RIP Dame Maggie. Thank you. 💔💔💔
A wonderful lady with an amazing talent, RIP Dame Maggie.
Loved her!
I had not heard of Dame Maggie Smith’s passing. What a beautiful person and incredible artist and force to be reckoned with on screen. She was fantastic in everything she was ever in because she was the epitome of a true actor who didn’t settle for less than. You’ve given us a plethora of emotions throughout the years, but your passing is only sadness. For your family, friends and millions of fans. Rest well, Maggie. Thank you for everything. A true master of the craft for well over half of a century. ❤️🩹✝️🎭🏆🎬
Thank you, Graeme. That was lovely. ❤✌️
She was certainly one of the Greats! RIP Maggie Smith! ❤
My favorite Dowager countess line from season 1: "Why must every day involve a fight with an American?"
She was a great actress and her legacy of so many roles on stage and movie and tv show it. My favorite movie with her is Tea With Mussolini and that ensemble cast, also a later one, The Lady in the Van is remarkable. She was intrepid, formidable, extremely intelligent and had the most remarkable timing.
RIP Beautiful woman ❤
Loved her. My favorite British actress . Rest in peace 🙏
Maggie Smith, a Legend, rest in peace ❤️
There are no words to truly describe her brilliance. Downton Abbey was her crowning role, and I've seen her in so many performances. This role shows every facet of her abilities.
Her talent was endless…I loved her…Loosing her is like loosing a family member…
There will never be another Violet Crawley like you Dame Maggie. May you rest in peace for all eternity. You will live on…in our hearts ❤.
Bless her I hope she is rewarded in the after life, for all her entertainment she has given in this life
Such a sad day when we heard of her passing. It sometimes seems that we are in a time when the greats of the theatre tradition in the United Kingdom are being taken from us too quickly, those whose career started on the stage and who never expected to become international film or television stars. Dame Edith Evans, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson were all of a slightly older generation. Recently we have lost Sir Michael Gambon, the wonderful Tom Wilkinson and Alan Rickman of the gorgeously expressive dark voice. Dame Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Dame Julie Andrews, Dame Penelope Wilton, Dame Patricia Routledge, Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen (whom I saw play Richard II and Edward II at the Edinburgh Festival in my far off youth), Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Tom Courtenay amongst others are all in or very close to their 80s - in one case in their 90s. Will future generations ever have an opportunity of seeing a similar galaxy of talent on the British stages?
Graeme O'Neil is not someone I enjoy hearing speak but I appreciate the tribute to Dame Smith.
Rip Maggie. You bridged the gap of young and old. Most children will remember you, as Minerva and adults also as the dowager. But I also remember the prime of Miss Jean Brodie. A star has gone out tonight. ❤
Maggie inhabited every role she played. She found so many new young fans as Professor McGonagall. My hope is that they have watched her any many things since. She will be so missed.
“Desmonia”? That’s Desdemona, the female lead in Shakespeare’s Othello. Smith’s film performance of that role in the 1960s resulted in an Academy Award nomination, and the film holds the record for the most nominations for a movie version of a Shakespeare play. I can only imagine what Dame Maggie would say about that mispronunciation of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known female characters.
This guy needs to slow down a fraction and think about what he's saying. Or at least do a retake if he flubs it. I don't say it to be unkind, just to be real.
@@difrancophile Agreed. I don't get it - if you're going to be speaking on camera as a profession, that the person doesn't understand that they need to speak in a way that we can hear clearly so we don't struggle to understand what's being said. My 2 cents...
“Downton Abbey” fans who haven’t seen its precursor film, “Gosford Park,” also written by Julian Fellowes, and directed by Robert Altman, must do so. A send-up of British murder mysteries set in the 1930s, Smith’s performance as Constance, Countess of Trentham (get it: Trentham -> Grantham?) was Oscar-nominated, and is well known to have evolved into Lady Violet. As usual, Dame Maggie steals every scene she’s in, although the whole star-studded film is delightful. The costume designer deservedly won an Oscar. One of my all-time favorites, I curl up and indulge myself in a viewing about once a year.
It's one of my favourite films
An amazing lady, with amazing talent! Thankfully she left us with a great treasure of work we can go back to and appreciate.
RIP Maggie. She was a Shakespearean actress on par with Olivier and Gielgud. At the top of her profession.
Dame ,Maggie you will be missed in life to many you were a true legend God Bless RIP
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE MAGGIE
YOU WERE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL , ALWAYS
Before I spotted this video, I didn't even know she died. The world lost a great actress. Rest In Peace.
I can practically hear Violet Grantham saying to Graeme O'Neil. "In what country did you learn English...and what was your native language?"
LOL...I concur.
My eyes water every time I see one of these videos. Even though she has left us with many great characters, my two favorites are Professor McGonagall and The Dowager Countess. RIP
She was a great actress❤❤❤❤
I'll miss you, Maggie. ♥💕♥
A beautiful, actress, icon....far beyond
.her name.....rip 🙏🙏🙏🎆💯👠💝
I watched time in time yesterday. I love downtown abby. I convinced my sister to watch it. Thats been since it started on TV. I think it was channel 3 on Sundays. I missed episodes but I Was happy it is on prime to watch it. Thank you cast for a great show
She was a wonderful actor…..what an amazing life…RIP Dame Maggie,you will be so missed……❤Donna in Toronto
What a touching tribute. 😢🤍🕊️
Her talent, intelligence and presence are unique.
Last interview I saw her was in Graham Norton ❤
Maggie ringing that bell gets me every time! 😂
Lo más grande. No hay otra igual. Yo creí que era inmortal...
Brilliant performance,as always, in Downton, as Violet Crawley the Dowager Countess of Grantham, but my first,& favourite encounter with the fine actor Maggie Smith is when she portrayed Miss Jean Brodie ,in the 1969 movie adaptation of Muriel Spark's ,'The Prime of Miss Jean Bodie'. Maggie Smith, as always, embodied the character of Jean Brodie 2nd to none!
That was so lovely! 🙏🙇🏻♀️🪽RIP🌹 She was a light in my life. Condolences to all that loved her. 🌍🫶
Beautiful well edited tribute.
Graeme, you need to slow down when you talk. It gets quite garbled at times.
Yes, very hard to understand. Enunciate!
yes- he swallows t he end of words, i agree wutg everyone, SLOW DOWN and say the entire word.
@@PeterLeeds-eg8ld
He seems wacky
It s a real challenge, but it s a good training for me😎love from Germany 💜
I agree. Please spare a thought for those who are deaf/very hard of hearing. We rely on clear speech to cope with hearing aids. The Closed Captions produce some really weird translations of your presentation! Don't forget, those who are deaf are not necessarily blind and dumb as well!
Is this dude drunk or having a stroke??? I cannot make out half of what his saying. 😮
I just finished D.A. a few weeks ago for the 3rd or 4th time. Looks like I'm going to have to watch it one more time. Rest in peach Dame Maggie.
R.I.P. Maggie
RIP, Madam Maggie Smith. We will miss you. Way back in Harry Potter, you were great as Professor Minerva McGonagall.
Who is this dude in the green T shirt? His fast talking is hard to understand.
Lovely tribute, thankyou!
Thank you, dear Dame Maggie, you are the best and you will ever be. Rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏❤️
Dame Maggie and angela Lansbury were my favourite actresses
Mine too!!
An absolutely brilliant actress ❤❤