Phyllis Calvert

Born: 1915-02-18

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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Mrs. Dalloway

as Aunt Helena
Released: 1997-09-01

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife...

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Indiscreet

as Mrs. Margaret Munson
Released: 1958-07-16

Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams....

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Madonna of the Seven Moons

as Maddalena Labardi
Released: 1945-01-22

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking...

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Oh! What a Lovely War

as Lady Dorothy Haig
Released: 1969-03-10

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys...

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Appointment with Danger

as Sister Augustine
Released: 1950-03-31

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned...

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Child in the House

as Evelyn Acheson
Released: 1956-08-14

A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...

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Mandy

as Christine Garland
Released: 1952-07-29

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches...

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The Walking Stick

as Erica Dainton
Released: 1970-04-15

A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a...

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The Man in Grey

as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
Released: 1943-08-06

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a...

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Twisted Nerve

as Enid Durnley
Released: 1968-12-20

Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an...

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Fanny by Gaslight

as Fanny
Released: 1944-05-08

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her...

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Broken Journey

as Mary Johnstone
Released: 1948-04-14

A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a...

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The Young Mr. Pitt

as Eleanor Eden
Released: 1942-09-21

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great...

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Oscar Wilde

as Constance Wilde
Released: 1960-05-29

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young...

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The Woman He Loved

as Queen Mary
Released: 1988-04-03

In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice...

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

as Margot
Released: 1965-05-26

Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair...

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Mr. Denning Drives North

as Kay Denning
Released: 1951-12-18

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty...

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Let George Do It!

as Mary Wilson
Released: 1940-07-12

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and...

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The Magic Bow

as Jeanne
Released: 1946-09-20

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the...

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They Were Sisters

as Lucy Moore
Released: 1945-07-02

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the...

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Two Thousand Women

as Freda Thompson
Released: 1944-11-06

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp...

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Time Out of Mind

as Kate Fernald
Released: 1947-05-03

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career...

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The Root of All Evil

as Jeckie Farnish
Released: 1947-02-05

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When...

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All Passion Spent

as Carrie
Released: 1986-12-09

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by...

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Kipps

as Ann Pornick (adult)
Released: 1941-06-28

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.

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Bed

as Woman
Released: 1995-10-20

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright.

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The Golden Madonna

as Patricia Chandler
Released: 1949-05-23

Patricia (Phyllis Calvert) throws away a painting members of her Italian village consider to be...

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Uncensored

as Julie Lanvin
Released: 1942-08-24

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives...

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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt

as Betty Forsythe
Released: 1940-08-31

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring...

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The Net

as Lydia Heathley
Released: 1953-02-09

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by...

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

as Mrs. Wilkinson
Released: 1941-05-17

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector...

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It's Never Too Late

as Laura Hammond
Released: 1956-05-07

When a sedate wife and mother decides her family takes her for granted, she pens a movie script...

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Across the Lake

as Lady Dolly Campbell
Released: 1988-01-01

Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell...

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The Death of the Heart

as Mrs. Heccomb
Released: 1987-05-03

A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed...

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They Came by Night

as Sally
Released: 1940-03-07

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

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My Own True Love

as Joan Clews
Released: 1948-07-01

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic...

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A Lady Mislaid

as Esther Wallace
Released: 1958-01-01

Esther and her sister Jennifer have just taken a remote country cottage. But there is strange...

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Midsomer Murders

as Alice Bly
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Mabel Ince
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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Sherlock Holmes

as Agnes Garrideb
First aired: 1984-04-24

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...

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The House of Eliott

as Mrs Gurney
First aired: 1991-08-31

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

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Casualty

as Mary
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Victoria Wood

as Hilary
First aired: 1989-11-16

Victoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria...

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All Passion Spent

as Carrie
First aired: 1986-12-09

With the death of her husband, elderly Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her...

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