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.
Acting
TV
Midsomer Murders
as Alice Bly
1997
TV
Sherlock Holmes
as Agnes Garrideb
1984
Movie
Indiscreet
as Mrs. Margaret Munson
1958
TV
Casualty
as Mary
1986
Movie
Mrs. Dalloway
as Aunt Helena
1997
Movie
Twisted Nerve
as Enid Durnley
1968
Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Lady Dorothy Haig
1969
TV
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mabel Ince
1979
Movie
The Man in Grey
as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
1943
Movie
Mandy
as Christine Garland
1952
Movie
Appointment with Danger
as Sister Augustine
1950
Movie
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Maddalena Labardi
1945
Movie
Let George Do It!
as Mary Wilson
1940
TV
The House of Eliott
as Mrs Gurney
1991
Movie
Oscar Wilde
as Constance Wilde
1960
Movie
Two Thousand Women
as Freda Thompson
1944
Movie
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
as Mrs. Wilkinson
1941
Movie
Fanny by Gaslight
as Fanny
1944
Movie
Across the Lake
as Lady Dolly Campbell
1988
Movie
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Kay Denning
1951
Movie
The Walking Stick
as Erica Dainton
1970
Movie
They Were Sisters
as Lucy Moore
1945
Movie
Kipps
as Ann Pornick (adult)
1941
Movie
The Magic Bow
as Jeanne
1946