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Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress.
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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.
Gender
Female
Birthday
February 18, 1915
Died
October 8, 2002
Birthplace
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Bed
1995
Indiscreet
1958
Mandy
1952
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Kipps
1941
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
The Death of the Heart
1987
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
The Woman He Loved
1988
Let George Do It!
1940
Twisted Nerve
1968
Oscar Wilde
1960
The Walking Stick
1970
Fanny by Gaslight
1944
My Own True Love
1948
Across the Lake
1988
Broken Journey
1948
Child in the House
1956
Uncensored
1942
Appointment with Danger
1950
+ 23 more movies
Midsomer Murders
1997
Casualty
1986
Sherlock Holmes
1984
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Performance
1991
Lady Killers
1980
The House of Eliott
1991
After Henry
1988
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
1957
Victoria Wood
1989
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Kate
1970
All Passion Spent
1986
A Killing on the Exchange
1987