Phyllis Calvert
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| Phyllis Calvert | |
|---|---|
| Born | Phyllis Hannah Bickle February 18, 1915 Chelsea, London |
| Died | October 8, 2002 (aged 87) London, England |
Phyllis Calvert (February 18, 1915 - October 8, 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress.
Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she had her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927). She first found success 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, along with a successful stage and television career from the 1960s.
She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol (1943) and Piers Auriol (1954). She died in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Let George Do It (1940)
- Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
- Kipps (1941)
- The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
- The Man in Grey (1943)
- Fanny by Gaslight (1944)
- Two Thousand Women (1944)
- Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
- Appointment with Danger (1951)
- Mandy (1952)
- Indiscreet (1958)
- Oscar Wilde (1960)
- Twisted Nerve (1968)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
- The Walking Stick (1970)
- Mrs Dalloway (1997)
