Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Calvert

  • Birthday: 1915-02-18
  • Deathday: 2002-10-08
  • Place of birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
  • Also know as: Филлис Калверт

Biography

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.

Filmography

Two Thousand Women

1944

As Freda Thompson

Mandy

1952

As Christine Garland

Madonna of the Seven Moons

1945

As Maddalena Labardi

My Own True Love

1948

As Joan Clews

The Woman with No Name

1950

As Yvonne Winter

They Were Sisters

1945

As Lucy Moore

Broken Journey

1948

As Mary Johnstone

The Root of All Evil

1947

As Jeckie Farnish

Child in the House

1956

As Evelyn Acheson

The Young and the Guilty

1958

As Gladys Connor

Time Out of Mind

1947

As Kate Fernald

The Golden Madonna

1949

As Patricia Chandler

It's Never Too Late

1956

As Laura Hammond

The Death of the Heart

1987

As Mrs. Heccomb

A Lady Mislaid

1958

As Esther Wallace

Appointment with Danger

1950

As Sister Augustine

The Man in Grey

1943

As Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan

Mr. Denning Drives North

1951

As Kay Denning

Fanny by Gaslight

1944

As Fanny

Let George Do It!

1940

As Mary Wilson

The Magic Bow

1946

As Jeanne

They Came by Night

1940

As Sally

The Net

1953

As Lydia Heathley

Uncensored

1942

As Julie Lanvin

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942

As Eleanor Eden

Oscar Wilde

1960

As Constance Wilde

Kipps

1941

As Ann Pornick (adult)

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

1941

As Mrs. Wilkinson

Indiscreet

1958

As Mrs. Margaret Munson

All Passion Spent

1986

As Carrie

The Walking Stick

1970

As Erica Dainton

Men of Two Worlds

1946

As Dr. Caroline Munro

Neutral Port

1940

As Helen Carter

Across the Lake

1988

As Lady Dolly Campbell

Bed

1995

As Woman

Twisted Nerve

1968

As Enid Durnley

The Woman He Loved

1988

As Queen Mary

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

1940

As Betty Forsythe

Mrs. Dalloway

1997

As Aunt Helena

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969

As Lady Dorothy Haig

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