Julia R. Hurley (May 11, 1848 – June 4, 1927)[citation needed] was an American actress who found popularity in her senior years in silent films.

She is best remembered today as the 'landlady with the lamp' in the John Barrymore classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1920, a role for which she is uncredited.

Hurley's film debut occurred in Corporal Truman's War Story when she was 63 years old.

[2] She worked for many of the early film studios i.e.: Biograph, Kalem, Essanay, Reliance, Imp, Champion and Solax.

[3] As with most people born in the Victorian era, Hurley probably enjoyed a theatrical career acting in provinces or regional theatre and touring before making her first film in 1909.