Phyllis Calvert
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Man in Grey (1943)
as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as Lady Dorothy Haig
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
as Margot
Twisted Nerve (1968)
as Enid Durnley
The Woman He Loved (1988)
as Queen Mary
Indiscreet (1958)
as Mrs. Margaret Munson
Across the Lake (1988)
as Lady Dolly Campbell
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
as Betty Forsythe
Appointment with Danger (1950)
as Sister Augustine
Mrs. Dalloway (1997)
as Aunt Helena
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)
as Kay Denning
The Death of the Heart (1987)
as Mrs. Heccomb
My Own True Love (1948)
as Joan Clews
A Month in the Country (1985)
as Anna
Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
as Maddalena Labardi
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
as Mrs. Wilkinson
Time Out of Mind (1947)
as Kate Fernald
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
as Eleanor Eden
They Came by Night (1940)
as Sally
The Walking Stick (1970)
as Erica Dainton
Let George Do It! (1940)
as Mary Wilson
Child in the House (1956)
as Evelyn Acheson
Kipps (1941)
as Ann Pornick (adult)
The Woman with No Name (1950)
as Yvonne Winter
Mandy (1952)
as Christine Garland
Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
as Fanny
Bed (1995)
as Couple Woman
They Were Sisters (1945)
as Lucy Moore
The Root of All Evil (1947)
as Jeckie Farnish
Oscar Wilde (1960)
as Constance Wilde
Two Thousand Women (1944)
as Freda Thompson
Men of Two Worlds (1946)
as Dr. Caroline Munro
It's Never Too Late (1956)
as Laura Hammond
Uncensored (1942)
as Julie Lanvin
Two Days to Live (1940)
as Joyce
The Young and the Guilty (1958)
as Gladys Connor
All Passion Spent (1986)
as Carrie
Neutral Port (1940)
as Helen Carter
The Net (1953)
as Lydia Heathley
The Magic Bow (1946)
as Jeanne
The Postman (1952)
Actor
Broken Journey (1948)
as Mary Johnstone
A Lady Mislaid (1958)
as Esther Wallace
The Golden Madonna (1949)
as Patricia Chandler