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person_profile-Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood Died at age: 73

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Margaret Lockwood

Date of Birth:

Sep 15, 1916

Country of birth:

British India [now Pakistan]

Died:

Jul 15, 1990

Biography of

Margaret Lockwood

    Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990) was an English actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough movie, The Wicked Lady.

    Margaret Mary Lockwood Day was born in Karachi, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan), to an English administrator of a railway company and his Scottish wife. Lockwood's family returned to the United Kingdom when she was a child, along with her brother. She attended Sydenham High School for girls, and a ladies school in Kensington, London.

    She began studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the Holborn Empire, where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In December of the following year, she appeared at the Scala Theatre in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood. In 1932, she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Cavalcade.

    Lockwood then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was seen by a talent scout and signed to a contract. In June 1934, she played Myrtle in House on Fire at the Queen's Theatre, and on 22 August 1934 appeared as Margaret Hamilton in Gertrude Jenning's play Family Affairs when it premiered at the Ambassadors Theatre; Helene Ferber in Repayment at the Arts Theatre in January 1936; Trixie Drew in Henry Bernard's play Miss Smith at the Duke of York's Theatre in July 1936; and back at the Queen's in July 1937 as Ann Harlow in Ann's Lapse.

    Lockwood entered films in 1934, and in 1935 she appeared in the film version of Lorna Doone. In 1938 she starred in her most successful film, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, in which she first appeared with Michael Redgrave. In 1940, she played the role of Jenny Sunley, the self-centered, frivolous wife of Michael Redgrave's character in The Stars Look Down. In the early 1940s, Lockwood changed her on-screen image to play villainesses in both contemporary and period films, becoming the most successful actress in British films during that period. Her greatest success was in the title role in The Wicked Lady (1945), a film which was controversial in its day and brought her considerable publicity. In 1946 Lockwood gained the Daily Mail National Film Awards First Prize for most popular British film actress.

    She made a return to the stage in a record-breaking national tour of Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1949, and also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951, and the title role in Peter Pan in 1949, 1950, and 1957 (the latter with her daughter as Wendy). Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1965/66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley), Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick (1970), Relative Values (Noel Coward revival, 1973), and the thrillers Spider's Web (1955, written for her by Agatha Christie), Signpost to Murder (1962), and Double Edge (1975).

    In 1969, she starred as barrister Julia Stanford in the TV play, Justice is a Woman. This inspired the Yorkshire Television series, Justice, which ran for three seasons (39 episodes) from 1971 to 1974, and featured her real-life partner, John Stone, as fictional boyfriend, Dr Ian Moody. Lockwood's role as the feisty Harriet Peterson won her Best Actress Awards from the TV Times (1971) and The Sun (1973). Her last professional appearance was as Queen Alexandra in Royce Ryton's stage play, Motherdear (Ambassadors Theatre, 1980). She was created a CBE in the New Year Honours of 1981.

    Margaret Lockwood had married and been divorced from Rupert Leon. She lived her final years in seclusion and died in the Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 73. She was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium. She was survived by her daughter, actress Julia Clark (née Margaret Julia Leon, born 1941).

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Filmography of

Margaret Lockwood

Found 39 Movies in total

The Slipper and the Rose

Stepmother ( Actor )

... 1976

Cast a Dark Shadow

Freda Jeffries ( Actor )

... 1955

Trouble in the Glen

Marissa Mengues ( Actor )

... 1954

Laughing Anne

Laughing Anne ( Actor )

... 1953

Trent's Last Case

Margaret Manderson ( Actor )

... 1952

Highly Dangerous

Frances Gray ( Actor )

... 1950

Madness of the Heart

Lydia Garth ( Actor )

... 1949

Cardboard Cavalier

Nell Gwynne ( Actor )

... 1949

Pygmalion

Eliza Doolittle ( Actor )

... 1948

Look Before You Love

Ann Markham ( Actor )

... 1948

The White Unicorn

Lucy ( Actor )

... 1947

Jassy

Jassy Woodroofe ( Actor )

... 1947

Hungry Hill

Fanny Rosa ( Actor )

... 1947

Bedelia

Bedelia Carrington ( Actor )

... 1946

The Wicked Lady

Barbara Worth ( Actor )

... 1945

A Place of One's Own

Annette Allenby ( Actor )

... 1945

Love Story

Lissa Campbell ( Actor )

... 1944

Give Us the Moon

Nina ( Actor )

... 1944

The Man in Grey

Hesther Shaw Barbary ( Actor )

... 1943

Alibi

Helene Ardouin ( Actor )

... 1942

Quiet Wedding

Janet Royd ( Actor )

... 1941

Night Train to Munich

Anna Bomasch ( Actor )

... 1940

Girl in the News

Anne Graham ( Actor )

... 1940

The Stars Look Down

Jenny Sunley ( Actor )

... 1940

Rulers of the Sea

Mary Shaw ( Actor )

... 1939

A Girl Must Live

Leslie James ( Actor )

... 1939

Susannah of the Mounties

Vicky Standing ( Actor )

... 1939

The Lady Vanishes

Iris Matilda Henderson ( Actor )

... 1938

Bank Holiday

Catherine Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1938

Owd Bob

Jeannie McAdam ( Actor )

... 1938

Doctor Syn

Imogene Clegg ( Actor )

... 1937

The Street Singer

Jenny Green ( Actor )

... 1937

The Beloved Vagabond

Blanquette ( Actor )

... 1936

The Amateur Gentleman

Georgina Huntstanton ( Actor )

... 1936

Jury's Evidence

Betty Stanton ( Actor )

... 1936

Midshipman Easy

Donna Agnes ( Actor )

... 1935

Man of the Moment

Vera Barton ( Actor )

... 1935

Honours Easy

Ann ( Actor )

... 1935

Lorna Doone

Annie Ridd ( Actor )

... 1934