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Dulcie Gray Died at age: 91

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Dulcie Gray

Date of Birth:

Nov 20, 1919

Country of birth:

Malaya

Died:

Nov 15, 2011

Biography of

Dulcie Gray

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist.

    Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Affair in 1950 and the Battle of Britain movie Angels One Five in 1952.

    Her performance as the luckless waitress Rose in the original stage production of Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre in 1944 led to Gray being offered a contract with Gainsborough Pictures. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh.

    During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90). Gray and Denison made their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, appearing as Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham from 1 May 1996 until 26 January 1997. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green.

    In 1999, the year after her husband's death, she played Mrs Wilberforce in an 18-city tour of UK theatres in a stage adaptation of the 1955 Ealing classic film, The Ladykillers.

    She last appeared on screen in 2000 in an episode of the BBC drama series Doctors.

    Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.

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Dulcie Gray

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Filmography of

Dulcie Gray

Found 15 Movies in total

Life After Death

Sales Assistant ( Actor )

... 1982

A Man Could Get Killed

Mrs. Mathieson ( Actor )

... 1966

There Was a Young Lady

Elizabeth Foster ( Actor )

... 1953

Angels One Five

Nadine Clinton ( Actor )

... 1952

The Franchise Affair

Marion Sharpe ( Actor )

... 1951

The Glass Mountain

Anne Wilder ( Actor )

... 1949

My Brother Jonathan

Rachel Hammond ( Actor )

... 1948

Mine Own Executioner

Patricia Milne ( Actor )

... 1947

A Man About the House

Ellen Isit ( Actor )

... 1947

The Years Between

Judy ( Actor )

... 1946

Wanted for Murder

Anne Fielding ( Actor )

... 1946

They Were Sisters

Charlotte Lee ( Actor )

... 1945

A Place of One's Own

Sarah ( Actor )

... 1945

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Nesta Logan ( Actor )

... 1945

Two Thousand Women

Nellie Skinner ( Actor )

... 1944