Davina Whitehouse, OBE (16 December 1912 – 25 December 2002) was a stage, film and television actress acclaimed in both her native UK as well as Australasia.
She was a star of the London stage in the 1930s before emigrating to New Zealand in 1952, finding work in radio, theatre and television (see filmography below).
Davina Whitehouse died in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 90, following a series of strokes. She was predeceased by her husband, Archie Whitehouse, and survived by her two children.
There are two misconceptions regarding Davina Whitehouse. The first is that she was a Dame (DBE); while some Internet sources refer to her as "Dame Davina" or "Dame Davina Whitehouse", she was, in fact, never knighted, but she was awarded an OBE for her services to the arts.
The second is that she appeared as an extra in the pre-Code film, Night Nurse (1931), which starred Barbara Stanwyck, Clark Gable and Joan Blondell. This is a mistake – she actually appeared in a TV movie in 1978 of essentially the same name, The Night Nurse.