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Jean Merilyn Simmons OBE (31 January 1929 – 22 January 2010) was a British actress and singer. [1] [2] One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets," she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
An early TV role was in Colin Welland's Play for Today (Kisses At Fifty, BBC, 1972) alongside Bill Maynard and she went on to feature in several BBC's single play strands, including other 'Plays for Today' Better Than The Movies (1972), The Bouncing Boy (1972), A Helping Hand (1975), Daft Mam Blues (1977), Marya (1979), The Other Side (1979)', Pasmore (1980), Alan Bennett's Marks (1982) and ...
British film and television actress [249] Renée Simonot: 1911–2021: 109: French actress; mother of actress Catherine Deneuve [250] Douglas Slocombe: 1913–2016: 103: British cinematographer [251] June Spencer: 1919–2024: 105: British radio actress [252] Norman Spencer: 1914–2024: 110: British film producer, production manager and ...
Barbara Kelly was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1923. As a child, she was given elocution lessons, and while Kelly hated the stage her mother was a frustrated actress. Kelly's first professional role was playing the Virgin Mary in a nativity play. [ 3 ]
Joy Shelton was born in Marylebone, London, and trained at RADA. [3] She appeared in a number of British films in the 1940s and '50s, including two by Sidney Gilliat: Millions Like Us (1943), which traced the wartime life of an ordinary London family, and Waterloo Road (1945), in which she was fought over by John Mills and Stewart Granger.
Éva Márta Szőke Ivanovics (18 June 1927 [3] – 1 August 1998), known professionally as Eva Bartok, was a Hungarian-British actress. She began acting in films in 1950, and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She acted in more than 40 American, British, German, Hungarian, French, and Israeli films.
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