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person_profile-Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Calvert Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Phyllis Calvert

Date of Birth:

Feb 18, 1915

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Oct 08, 2002

Biography of

Phyllis Calvert

    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.

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Filmography of

Phyllis Calvert

Found 38 Movies in total

Mrs. Dalloway

Aunt Helena ( Actor )

... 1997

Bed

Woman ( Actor )

... 1995

Across the Lake

Lady Dolly Campbell ( Actor )

... 1988

The Woman He Loved

Queen Mary ( Actor )

... 1988

The Death of the Heart

Mrs. Heccomb ( Actor )

... 1987

All Passion Spent

Carrie ( Actor )

... 1986

The Walking Stick

Erica Dainton ( Actor )

... 1970

Oh! What a Lovely War

Lady Dorothy Haig ( Actor )

... 1969

Twisted Nerve

Enid Durnley ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1965

Oscar Wilde

Constance Wilde ( Actor )

... 1960

Indiscreet

Mrs. Margaret Munson ( Actor )

... 1958

A Lady Mislaid

Esther Wallace ( Actor )

... 1958

Child in the House

Evelyn Acheson ( Actor )

... 1956

It's Never Too Late

Laura Hammond ( Actor )

... 1956

The Net

Lydia Heathley ( Actor )

... 1953

Mandy

Christine Garland ( Actor )

... 1952

Mr. Denning Drives North

Kay Denning ( Actor )

... 1951

Appointment with Danger

Sister Augustine ( Actor )

... 1950

The Golden Madonna

Patricia Chandler ( Actor )

... 1949

My Own True Love

Joan Clews ( Actor )

... 1948

Broken Journey

Mary Johnstone ( Actor )

... 1948

Time Out of Mind

Kate Fernald ( Actor )

... 1947

The Root of All Evil

Jeckie Farnish ( Actor )

... 1947

The Magic Bow

Jeanne ( Actor )

... 1946

Men of Two Worlds

Dr. Caroline Munro ( Actor )

... 1946

They Were Sisters

Lucy Moore ( Actor )

... 1945

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Maddalena Labardi ( Actor )

... 1945

Two Thousand Women

Freda Thompson ( Actor )

... 1944

Fanny by Gaslight

Fanny ( Actor )

... 1944

The Man in Grey

Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan ( Actor )

... 1943

The Young Mr. Pitt

Eleanor Eden ( Actor )

... 1942

Uncensored

Julie Lanvin ( Actor )

... 1942

Kipps

Ann Pornick (adult) ( Actor )

... 1941

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Mrs. Wilkinson ( Actor )

... 1941

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

Betty Forsythe ( Actor )

... 1940

Let George Do It!

Mary Wilson ( Actor )

... 1940

They Came by Night

Sally ( Actor )

... 1940