As per our current Database, Freda Jackson has been died on 20 October 1990(1990-10-20) (aged 82)\nNorthampton, Northamptonshire, England.
When Freda Jackson die, Freda Jackson was 82 years old.
Popular As | Freda Jackson |
Occupation | Actress |
Age | 82 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Capricorn |
Born | December 29, 1907 ( Nottingham, England, United Kingdom) |
Birthday | December 29 |
Town/City | Nottingham, England, United Kingdom |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Freda Jackson’s zodiac sign is Capricorn. According to astrologers, Capricorn is a sign that represents time and responsibility, and its representatives are traditional and often very serious by nature. These individuals possess an inner state of independence that enables significant progress both in their personal and professional lives. They are masters of self-control and have the ability to lead the way, make solid and realistic plans, and manage many people who work for them at any time. They will learn from their mistakes and get to the top based solely on their experience and expertise.
Freda Jackson was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
Jackson was born in Nottingham in 1907. She made her stage debut on 1 January 1934, appearing at the Northampton Repertory Theatre in Sweet Lavender. During this period, she reputedly had a relationship with Errol Flynn, a fellow company member. After two years with the Northampton Rep, she first appeared in London on 13 July 1936 in The Sacred Flame at the Q Theatre, afterwards touring with Emlyn Williams in Williams' play Night Must Fall. In 1938 she joined the Old Vic company, touring with them the following year in Europe and Egypt, and in 1940 she became part of the Stratford Memorial Theatre company. Her film debut was in Mountains O'Mourne (1938); other early films included Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale, Laurence Olivier's Henry V (both 1944) and David Lean's Great Expectations (1946).
She married the Artist Henry Bird around 1936, living with him at Hardingstone House, Northampton. Their son Julian, initially a Psychiatrist, later became an actor. She died, aged 82, in 1990.
In July 1945 she scored a personal success at the Embassy Theatre in London's Swiss Cottage, playing the sadistic landlady Mrs Voray in Joan Temple's No Room at the Inn. She also featured in the play's West End transfer and in the film adaptation released in 1948. A few years later she played a similar role, Mrs Allistair, in the stage and screen versions of Sylvia Rayman's Women of Twilight (1952). "I wonder," she wrote in 1954, "if [my fellow actors] ever dreamed when we were treading the Shakespearean boards together at Stratford 14 years ago that their light-hearted Nerissa, Maria and Mrs Quickly would, in less years than it takes to say Sweeney Todd, be treading so heavily the darkest paths of crime - her name a horrid by-word, a source of cosy shudders ... Seriously though, dear public, you must please believe that I was not always so depraved a character."
Her later films included Lewis Gilbert's The Good Die Young (1954) as Joan Collins' mother, George Cukor's Bhowani Junction (1956), Ralph Thomas' A Tale of Two Cities (1958), Terence Fisher's The Brides of Dracula (1960), Tony Richardson's Tom Jones (1963), two directed by Michael Winner (West 11, 1963, and The Jokers, 1967), Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die! (1965) as Boris Karloff's wife, and two featuring Ray Harryhausen creature effects, The Valley of Gwangi (1969) and Clash of the Titans (1981). Summarising her film career, David Quinlan wrote that she "created some memorably grim portraits ... fewer than one would have liked, but she was really too ferocious for supporting roles."
In July 1955, back at Northampton, she played the role she later listed as her favourite in Who's Who in the Theatre - Marguerite Gautier in The Lady of the Camellias. Later stage appearances included the Gypsy in Camino Real (Phoenix Theatre 1957), Duel of Angels (Apollo Theatre 1958), Mrs Hitchcock in Sergeant Musgrave's Dance (Royal Court Theatre 1959), Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman (Mermaid Theatre 1961), the title role in Mother Courage (Bristol Old Vic 1961), Naked (Royal Court Theatre 1963), a 1967 tour of Arsenic and Old Lace, and Maria Helliwell in When We Are Married (Strand Theatre 1970).