Mrs. Callum — Pursued Character Profile

About Mrs. Callum

A widow who raises Jeb alongside her biological children. She harbors guilt over her past affair with Jeb's father and the subsequent family feud. Although she initially participates in a revenge plot against Jeb, she ultimately confronts the truth, shoots Grant to save him, and seeks redemption.

Character Facts

Played by

Judith Anderson

Appears in

Pursued (1947)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Mrs. Callum — Family Adoptive Mother — Jeb (Robert Mitchum)

  Mrs. Callum adopts traumatized Jeb after the massacre and raises him as her biological child.

• Mrs. Callum — Family Biological Mother — Thor (Teresa Wright)

  Thor is Mrs. Callum's biological daughter and Jeb's adoptive sister.

• Mrs. Callum — Family Biological Mother — Adam (John Rodney)

  Adam is Mrs. Callum's biological son and Jeb's adoptive brother.

• Mrs. Callum — Family Sister-in-law — Grant (Dean Jagger)

  Grant is Mrs. Callum's brother-in-law, connected through the historical family feud.

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More characters from Pursued

• Thor (Teresa Wright)
• Jeb (Robert Mitchum)
• Grant (Dean Jagger)
• Thor, Age 10 (Peggy Miller)
• Jake Dingle (Alan Hale)
• Woman at the Wedding (uncredited) (Virginia Brissac)
• A Callum (Norman Jolley)
• Townsman (uncredited) (Erville Alderson)
• Townsman (uncredited) (Rudy Bowman)
• Adam (John Rodney)
• A Callum (Jack Montgomery)
• A Callum (Lane Chandler)