Phyllis Calvert
Acting
Born: February 18, 1915 · Chelsea, London, England, UK
Died: October 8, 2002 (aged 87)
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (41)
Mandy
Christine Garland
Oh! What a Lovely War
Lady Dorothy Haig
The Magic Bow
Jeanne
Twisted Nerve
Enid Durnley
The Man in Grey
Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
Indiscreet
Mrs. Margaret Munson
The Woman He Loved
Queen Mary
Appointment with Danger
Sister Augustine
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Mrs. Wilkinson
Let George Do It!
Mary Wilson
Mrs. Dalloway
Aunt Helena
Time Out of Mind
Kate Fernald
Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny
Across the Lake
Lady Dolly Campbell
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Maddalena Labardi
They Were Sisters
Lucy Moore
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Margot
The Walking Stick
Erica Dainton
Kipps
Ann Pornick (adult)
Mr. Denning Drives North
Kay Denning
The Root of All Evil
Jeckie Farnish
Oscar Wilde
Constance Wilde
The Death of the Heart
Mrs. Heccomb
The Young Mr. Pitt
Eleanor Eden
It's Never Too Late
Laura Hammond
They Came by Night
Sally
The Postman
1952
Uncensored
Julie Lanvin
Broken Journey
Mary Johnstone
A Month in the Country
Anna
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Betty Forsythe
My Own True Love
Joan Clews
Two Thousand Women
Freda Thompson
Child in the House
Evelyn Acheson
The Young and the Guilty
Gladys Connor
The Net
Lydia Heathley
Men of Two Worlds
Dr. Caroline Munro
A Lady Mislaid
Esther Wallace
Bed
Couple Woman
The Woman with No Name
Yvonne Winter
The Golden Madonna
Patricia Chandler
TV Shows (16)
Midsomer Murders
Alice Bly · 1 eps
Casualty
Mary · 1 eps
Tales of the Unexpected
Mabel Ince · 1 eps
Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb · 1 eps
ITV Playhouse
Mrs Radcliffe · 1 eps
Performance
Woman · 1 eps
The House of Eliott
Mrs Gurney · 1 eps
Lady Killers
Rosaline Fox · 1 eps
Victoria Wood
Hilary · 1 eps
After Henry
Auntie Lilian · 2 eps
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb · 1 eps
Armchair Theatre
Esther Ross · 1 eps
A Killing on the Exchange
Alison Tyndall · 3 eps
Cover Her Face
Eleanor Maxie · 6 eps
Jute City
Lady Muircross · 3 eps
All Passion Spent
Carrie · 3 eps