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  2. Wendy Hiller - Wikipedia

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    Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film".

  3. The Countess Alice - Wikipedia

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    The Countess Alice is a 1992 [1] [2] BBC [3] made for television drama film directed by Moira Armstrong and features Wendy Hiller, Zoë Wanamaker and Duncan Bell. This was Wendy Hiller's last film role. It was made with the support of WGBH-Boston and shown on the American PBS network in 1993.

  4. Ronald Gow - Wikipedia

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    Wendy Hiller played the lead, and also made her first film appearance in the Gow-scripted Lancashire Luck. In 1937 Hiller and Gow married. They later moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they raised two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b. 1942). He lived with Hiller at their home, "Spindles", until his death in 1993.

  5. List of people from the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport

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    Wendy Hiller (1912–2003), film and stage actress [27] Gerard Horan (born 1962), actor, Leslie "Charisma" Appleby in London's Burning, 1988–1989 and 1994; William Houldsworth, industrialist and politician; born in Manchester; built Houldsworth Mill, the surrounding housing and St Elizabeth's Church in Reddish [28]

  6. Jane Brennan - Wikipedia

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    Her father was Denis Brennan, a theatre director. Her mother was Daphne (née Carroll) Brennan, an actress. Several other members of her family are also actors. [2] [3] Brennan made her film debut in Attracta (1983), an Irish film that starred Wendy Hiller. In 2002, she appeared in the television remake of The Magnificent Ambersons.

  7. Ruth Dunning - Wikipedia

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    In 1934, she took over a part from Wendy Hiller in Love on the Dole, at the Garrick Theatre in London. [2] Other stage appearances for Dunning included Val Gielgud 's Punch and Judy (1937), [ 3 ] A. A. Milne 's Gentleman Unknown (1938), [ 4 ] Ted Willis ' The Eyes of Youth (1959), [ 5 ] and Willis' adaptation of Gorky 's Mother (1961).

  8. I Know Where I'm Going! - Wikipedia

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    The movie was originally meant to star Deborah Kerr and James Mason but Kerr could not get out of her contract with MGM, so they cast Wendy Hiller. [6] Hiller was originally cast in the three roles Kerr played in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but had to withdraw when she became pregnant. [7] [8]

  9. Lancashire Luck - Wikipedia

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    The film is set around the paterfamilia of the Lovejoy family in Lancashire winning a large sum on the pools.With this windfall he buys a small tea-shop in a more upper-class section of their town, and generally lives the high life.