Dulcie Gray

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Dulcie Gray shown here with husband Michael Denison

Dulcie Gray, also known as Dulcie Savage, was born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya (now Malaysia) on 20 November 1919, and is a veteran British actress of the stage and screen. She went to school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire and then returned to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she returned to England and, after a brief spell at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art where she met her future husband, the actor Michael Denison.

She was married to Denison for fifty nine years before he died in 1998. Their professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together.

Although never officially released as a record, in 1997 she finally gave an impromptu public performance of her song You Tickle Me Spitless, Baby as part of an interview with her and her husband on UK Channel 5's Five's Company. Before singing it on this daytime show (long since axed), Dulcie Gray had only sung this legendary ditty to friends at dinner parties.

She is probably best known to television viewers for playing Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way.

Dulcie Gray also wrote 24 books, including seventeen detective stories featuring Inspector Cardiff.

She is also a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company.