Alison Leggatt

Alison Leggatt (7 February 1904 - 15 July 1990) was an English character actress.

Career

Born as Alison Joy Leggatt in the Kensington district of London, Leggatt spent the early part of her career primarily on the stage. Her first major film credit was as Aunt Sylvia in This Happy Breed (1944), Noël Coward's homage to the British working class. She was known for playing a variety of disapproving in-laws, motherly landladies, nosy neighbours and helpful housekeepers. She played opposite Petula Clark three times, in Here Come the Huggetts (1948), The Card (1952), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). In the John Schlesinger film version of Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) she played Mrs Hurst while her final screen appearance was in the Sherlock Holmes film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976).

Leggatt's television credits include the 1975 mini-series Edward the Seventh, in which she portrayed the Duchess of Kent.

Death

Alison Leggatt died of natural causes in London, aged 86.

Additional selected filmography

• Nine till Six (1932)
• Waterloo Road (1945)
• Marry Me! (1949)
• A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
• The Miniver Story (1950)
• Noose for a Lady (1953)
• Touch and Go (1955)
• A Woman Possessed (1958)
• Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
• The Day of the Triffids (1963)
• Nothing But the Best (1964)

External links

• Alison Leggatt at the Internet Movie Database