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Phyllis Calvert

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  • 1915 - 2002

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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.

Birthday: 1915-02-18

Born At: London, England, UK

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Oh! What a Lovely War
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Indiscreet
22874
Appointment with Danger
25564
Two Thousand Women
33841
The Man in Grey
41996
Mr. Denning Drives North
44025
Mandy
47026
Twisted Nerve
56092
Madonna of the Seven Moons
81678
My Own True Love
85823
The Young Mr. Pitt
112493
Fanny by Gaslight
113951
Oscar Wilde
119601
The Woman with No Name
136247
They Were Sisters
138991
The Walking Stick
145162
All Passion Spent
150938
Let George Do It!
164142
The Magic Bow
168321
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
170176
Kipps
181353
It's Never Too Late
193742
Broken Journey
222593
They Came by Night
232340
Bed
233404
The Net
235081
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
236570
Men of Two Worlds
240947
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
253759
The Root of All Evil
254244
The Woman He Loved
277655
Child in the House
279629
The Young and the Guilty
319630
Time Out Of Mind
340092
Neutral Port
367575
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