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Born · February 18, 1915
Died · October 8, 2002 (87 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
Aunt Helena
5.5
1997
Alice Bly · (1 episode)
7.5
1997
Woman
0.0
1995
Mrs Gurney · (1 episode)
5.9
1991
Hilary · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Queen Mary
10.0
1988
Lady Dolly Campbell
5.8
1988
Mrs. Heccomb
0.0
1987
Carrie
8.5
1986
Carrie · (3 episodes)
7.0
1986
(1 episode)
0.0
1986
Mary · (1 episode)
6.0
1986
Agnes Garrideb · (1 episode)
8.1
1984
Rosaline Fox · (1 episode)
5.0
1980
Mabel Ince · (1 episode)
6.7
1979
Erica Dainton
7.5
1970
(3 episodes)
0.0
1970
Lady Dorothy Haig
6.6
1969
Enid Durnley
6.8
1968
Margot
4.8
1965
Constance Wilde
5.3
1960
Mrs. Margaret Munson
6.6
1958
Gladys Connor
5.5
1958
Esther Wallace
5.0
1958
Evelyn Acheson
5.8
1956
Laura Hammond
6.0
1956
Lydia Heathley
6.0
1953
Christine Garland
7.0
1952
Kay Denning
6.0
1951
Yvonne Winter
6.0
1950
Sister Augustine
5.5
1950
Patricia Chandler
5.7
1949
Joan Clews
5.5
1948
Mary Johnstone
6.0
1948
Kate Fernald
5.0
1947
Jeckie Farnish
6.8
1947
Jeanne
5.3
1946
Dr. Caroline Munro
5.5
1946
Lucy Moore
5.6
1945
Maddalena Labardi
6.3
1945
Freda Thompson
6.8
1944
Fanny
5.7
1944
Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
5.9
1943
Eleanor Eden
5.4
1942
Julie Lanvin
0.0
1942
Ann Pornick (adult)
5.6
1941
Mrs. Wilkinson
6.9
1941
Helen Carter
6.0
1940
Betty Forsythe
5.0
1940
Mary Wilson
5.7
1940
Sally
5.0
1940