Phyllis Calvert
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
Pani Dalloway
Film • 1997
jako Aunt Helena
Morderstwa w Midsomer
Serial • 1997
jako Alice Bly
Bed
Film • 1995
jako Couple Woman
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Serial • 1994
jako Agnes Garrideb
Jute City
Serial • 1991
jako Lady Muircross
Performance
Serial • 1991
jako Woman
The House of Eliott
Serial • 1991
jako Mrs Gurney
Victoria Wood
Serial • 1989
jako Hilary
Across the Lake
Film • 1988
jako Lady Dolly Campbell
The Woman He Loved
Film • 1988
jako Queen Mary
After Henry
Serial • 1988
jako Auntie Lilian
The Death of the Heart
Film • 1987
jako Mrs. Heccomb
A Killing on the Exchange
Serial • 1987
jako Alison Tyndall
All Passion Spent
Film • 1986
jako Carrie
All Passion Spent
Serial • 1986
jako Carrie
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Serial • 1986
Casualty
Serial • 1986
jako Mary
A Month in the Country
Film • 1985
jako Anna
Cover Her Face
Serial • 1985
jako Eleanor Maxie
Przygody Sherlocka Holmesa
Serial • 1984
jako Agnes Garrideb
Lady Killers
Serial • 1980
jako Rosaline Fox
Tales of the Unexpected
Serial • 1979
jako Mabel Ince
The Walking Stick
Film • 1970
jako Erica Dainton
Kate
Serial • 1970
jako Kate Graham
Och, jaka piekna wojna!
Film • 1969
jako Lady Dorothy Haig
Twisted Nerve
Film • 1968
jako Enid Durnley
ITV Playhouse
Serial • 1967
jako Mrs Radcliffe
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Film • 1965
jako Margot
Oscar Wilde
Film • 1960
jako Constance Wilde
Niedyskrecja
Film • 1958
jako Mrs. Margaret Munson
The Young and the Guilty
Film • 1958
jako Gladys Connor
A Lady Mislaid
Film • 1958
jako Esther Wallace
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Serial • 1957
jako Tatiana
Child in the House
Film • 1956
jako Evelyn Acheson
Armchair Theatre
Serial • 1956
jako Esther Ross
It's Never Too Late
Film • 1956
jako Laura Hammond
The Net
Film • 1953
jako Lydia Heathley
The Postman
Film • 1952
Mandy
Film • 1952
jako Christine Garland
Mr. Denning Drives North
Film • 1951
jako Kay Denning
The Woman with No Name
Film • 1950
jako Yvonne Winter
Appointment with Danger
Film • 1950
jako Sister Augustine
The Golden Madonna
Film • 1949
jako Patricia Chandler
My Own True Love
Film • 1948
jako Joan Clews
Broken Journey
Film • 1948
jako Mary Johnstone
Time Out of Mind
Film • 1947
jako Kate Fernald
The Root of All Evil
Film • 1947
jako Jeckie Farnish
The Magic Bow
Film • 1946
jako Jeanne
Men of Two Worlds
Film • 1946
jako Dr. Caroline Munro
They Were Sisters
Film • 1945
jako Lucy Moore
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Film • 1945
jako Maddalena Labardi
Two Thousand Women
Film • 1944
jako Freda Thompson
Fanny by Gaslight
Film • 1944
jako Fanny
The Man in Grey
Film • 1943
jako Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
The Young Mr. Pitt
Film • 1942
jako Eleanor Eden
Uncensored
Film • 1942
jako Julie Lanvin
Kipps
Film • 1941
jako Ann Pornick (adult)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Film • 1941
jako Mrs. Wilkinson
Neutral Port
Film • 1940
jako Helen Carter
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Film • 1940
jako Betty Forsythe
Let George Do It!
Film • 1940
jako Mary Wilson
They Came by Night
Film • 1940
jako Sally
Two Days to Live
Film • 1940
jako Joyce