| Moira Lister | |
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| Born | 6 August 1923 Cape Town, South Africa |
| Died | 27 October 2007 (aged 84) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomte d’Orthez |
Moira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d’Orthez (6 August 1923 – 27 October 2007) was an Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress, and writer.
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Born in Cape Town to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), Lister was educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family, Johannesburg.[1]
She began her acting career on stage in South Africa and then went on to act in the London theatre at the age of 18.[2] Lister began working in films in 1944, and appeared in such films as The Limping Man, The Cruel Sea and The Deep Blue Sea.
She had a regular role in the first series of the BBC radio comedy Hancock's Half Hour in 1954-55.[3] She starred in the BBC television series The Whitehall Worrier and The Very Merry Widow from 1967 to 1968.[4] (Later series of this programme were titled The Very Merry Widow — and How!) Lister also appeared on various other British TV series such as Danger Man. In 1980, she made a guest appearance as film star Gloria Robbins in the sitcom Only When I Laugh.
Lister was performing until three years before her death, touring with her highly successful one-woman show about Noël Coward.
She belonged to the British Catholic Stage Guild.
She had been awarded the Naledi Award, a lifetime achievement award for her services to the theatre in South Africa.[5]
In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.
Both she and her husband are buried in the churchyard of St Edward's Catholic church in Sutton Green, Surrey.
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