Phyllis Calvert
Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress.
Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing and performed from the age of ten, gaining her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire. Calvert performed in repertory theatre and in several films, before making her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939.
During the following decade, she starred in many romances, including Fanny by Gaslight, with James Mason and Stewart Granger, and My Own True Love, becoming one of Britain's highest paid stars. However, three Hollywood studios failed to pay her what she asked.
She first found success in the film adaptation of H. G. Wells' Kipps (1941), but it was The Man in Grey (1943) that confirmed her status.
She acted in over 40 films, her later films include Oh! What a Lovely War and The Walking Stick. Calvert had already appeared on television, playing Mrs. March in the 1958 serials Little Women and Good Wives (both adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women), as well as individual episodes of several other programmes, when, in 1970, she landed the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own in Kate. She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry and The Line Grove Story.
She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol (born 1943) and Piers Auriol (born 1954). She died in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87.
Fotos
Películas (44)
Mrs. Dalloway
1997 · Aunt Helena
Bed
1995 · Couple Woman
Across the Lake
1988 · Lady Dolly Campbell
The Woman He Loved
1988 · Queen Mary
The Death of the Heart
1987 · Mrs. Heccomb
All Passion Spent
1986 · Carrie
A Month in the Country
1985 · Anna
The Walking Stick
1970 · Erica Dainton
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969 · Lady Dorothy Haig
Twisted Nerve
1968 · Enid Durnley
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965 · Margot
Oscar Wilde
1960 · Constance Wilde
Indiscreet
1958 · Mrs. Margaret Munson
The Young and the Guilty
1958 · Gladys Connor
A Lady Mislaid
1958 · Esther Wallace
Child in the House
1956 · Evelyn Acheson
It's Never Too Late
1956 · Laura Hammond
The Net
1953 · Lydia Heathley
The Postman
1952
Mandy
1952 · Christine Garland
Mr. Denning Drives North
1951 · Kay Denning
The Woman with No Name
1950 · Yvonne Winter
Appointment with Danger
1950 · Sister Augustine
The Golden Madonna
1949 · Patricia Chandler
My Own True Love
1948 · Joan Clews
Broken Journey
1948 · Mary Johnstone
Time Out of Mind
1947 · Kate Fernald
The Root of All Evil
1947 · Jeckie Farnish
The Magic Bow
1946 · Jeanne
Men of Two Worlds
1946 · Dr. Caroline Munro
They Were Sisters
1945 · Lucy Moore
Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945 · Maddalena Labardi
Two Thousand Women
1944 · Freda Thompson
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · Fanny
The Man in Grey
1943 · Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942 · Eleanor Eden
Uncensored
1942 · Julie Lanvin
Kipps
1941 · Ann Pornick (adult)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1941 · Mrs. Wilkinson
Neutral Port
1940 · Helen Carter
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940 · Betty Forsythe
Let George Do It!
1940 · Mary Wilson
They Came by Night
1940 · Sally
Two Days to Live
1940 · Joyce
Series (19)
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Alice Bly
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994 · Agnes Garrideb
Jute City
1991 · Lady Muircross
Performance
1991 · Woman
The House of Eliott
1991 · Mrs Gurney
Victoria Wood
1989 · Hilary
After Henry
1988 · Auntie Lilian
A Killing on the Exchange
1987 · Alison Tyndall
All Passion Spent
1986 · Carrie
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Casualty
1986 · Mary
Cover Her Face
1985 · Eleanor Maxie
Sherlock Holmes
1984 · Agnes Garrideb
Lady Killers
1980 · Rosaline Fox
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Mabel Ince
Kate
1970 · Kate Graham
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Mrs Radcliffe
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957 · Tatiana
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Esther Ross