Mary Morris

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Mary Morris

Born	December 13, 1915 Suva, Fiji
Died	October 14, 1988 (aged 72) Aigle, Switzerland

Mary Morris (born December 13, 1915 in Suva, Fiji; died October 14, 1988 in Switzerland) was an English actress. Her unique looks and petite frame made her ideal for playing eccentric characters. She was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, the botanist, and his wife Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

She made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1936. She is perhaps best known as Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough), and as a female Number Two in the Dance of the Dead episode of The Prisoner (1967) (in which she spoke dialogue written for a male actor, Trevor Howard, who pulled out just before filming began).

She also appeared on television in Doctor Who in 1982 in the story Kinda with Peter Davison. Other memorable television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina (1977, PBS), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter De La Mare story Seaton's Aunt (1983, PBS) and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral ( 1989, PBS).

She played Peter Pan on two occasions: once on the stage (as a Gypsy boy) and once on The Prisoner. She died from heart failure on October 14, 1988 in Aigle, Switzerland.