Margaret Lacey
| Margaret Lacey | |
|---|---|
 Lacey as Mrs. Whistler in Diamonds are Forever 1971 | |
| Born |
15 February 1910 Wales |
| Died |
4 October 1989 Llandudno |
| Years active | 1957–1989 |
Margaret Lacey (15 February 1910 – 4 October 1989) was a Welsh actress and ballet teacher. She lived in retirement at Wern, in the snowdonia village of Rowen, Conwy.
She appeared in over 30 films between 1957 and 1985 mostly playing a sweet old lady or motherly figure in minor roles. She is perhaps best remembered internationally for starring in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which she played a seemingly innocent Christian school teacher who smuggled diamonds in her bible for the henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. In the film, she was later found murdered and her body recovered out of an Amsterdam canal.
Lacey also made appearances in Dr Finlays Casebook (1960s), Z-Cars and her last credited appearance was in Magnum, P.I. in 1985.
Selected filmography
- Brothers in Law (1957)
- Happy is the Bride (1958)
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
- I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- A French Mistress (1960)
- Bomb in the High Street (1961)
- Only Two Can Play (1962)
- Billy Liar (1963)
- Ladies Who Do (1963)
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
- Rotten to the Core (1965)
- Sky West and Crooked (1966)
- Island of Terror (1966)
- The Deadly Affair (1966)
- The Family Way (1966)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- There's a Girl in My Soup (1970)
- Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971)
- Black Beauty (1971)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Bless This House (1972)
- The Ruling Class (1972)
- Yanks (1979)
- Richard's Things (1980)
- Secret Places (1984)