Phyllis Calvert
Acting
Born 1915-02-18
Died 2002-10-08
Chelsea, London, England, UK
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Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress.
Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing and performed from the age of ten, gaining her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire. Calvert performed in repertory theatre and in several films, before making her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939.
During the following decade, she starred in many romances, including Fanny by Gaslight, with James Mason and Stewart Granger, and My Own True Love, becoming one of Britain's highest paid stars. However, three Hollywood studios failed to pay her what she asked.
She first found success in 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, her later films include Oh! What a Lovely War and The Walking Stick. Calvert had already appeared on television, playing Mrs. March in the 1958 serials Little Women and Good Wives (both adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women), as well as individual episodes of several other programmes, when, in 1970, she landed the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own in Kate. She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry and The Line Grove Story.
She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol (born 1943) and Piers Auriol (born 1954). She died in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87.
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Filmography
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Midsomer Murders
Casualty
Sherlock Holmes
Tales of the Unexpected
ITV Playhouse
Performance
The House of Eliott
Lady Killers
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
After Henry
Victoria Wood
Mrs. Dalloway
Indiscreet
Twisted Nerve
Appointment with Danger
Oh! What a Lovely War
A Killing on the Exchange
Kate
Cover Her Face
The Woman He Loved
Armchair Theatre
Mandy
The Man in Grey
The Walking Stick
Kipps
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Madonna of the Seven Moons
All Passion Spent
Jute City
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Broken Journey
Fanny by Gaslight
Time Out of Mind
The Magic Bow
Oscar Wilde
The Net
The Young Mr. Pitt
Across the Lake
A Lady Mislaid
All Passion Spent
Bed
They Were Sisters
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
They Came by Night
The Woman with No Name
My Own True Love
A Month in the Country
Uncensored
Neutral Port
Child in the House
Two Thousand Women
Let George Do It!
The Death of the Heart
Mr. Denning Drives North
Two Days to Live
The Postman
It's Never Too Late
The Root of All Evil
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