Phyllis Calvert

Known for ActingBorn 1915-02-18Died 2002-10-08Chelsea, London, England, UK

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.Read more

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The Woman He Loved

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All Passion Spent

Uncensored

The Death of the Heart

Sherlock Holmes

Victoria Wood

Kate

The Woman with No Name

Midsomer Murders

Lady Killers

A Lady Mislaid

Bed

It's Never Too Late

The Root of All Evil

All Passion Spent

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

The Walking Stick

ITV Playhouse

Mandy

Tales of the Unexpected

The House of Eliott

Cover Her Face

Twisted Nerve

Oh! What a Lovely War

Two Days to Live

Two Thousand Women

Performance

Men of Two Worlds

Indiscreet

Child in the House

Neutral Port

After Henry

Casualty

Mr. Denning Drives North

Across the Lake

The Net

Madonna of the Seven Moons

The Young and the Guilty

They Came by Night

My Own True Love

The Young Mr. Pitt

Broken Journey

Let George Do It!

Mrs. Dalloway

Armchair Theatre

The Man in Grey

Kipps