Phyllis Calvert

About Phyllis Calvert

Who is it?: Actress
Birth Day: February 18, 1915
Birth Place:  Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom
Years active: 1927–2000
Spouse(s): Peter Murray-Hill (1941–57) (his death)
Children: Ann Auriol (b. 1943) Piers Auriol (b. 1954)

Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Calvert was born on February 18, 1915 in  Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, is Actress. Phyllis Hannah Bickle was born in Chelsea in 1915 and studied dancing at the Margaret Morris school of dance, until an injury forced her to give up dancing and turn instead to acting. Her 70 year film career began with a bit part in The Arcadians (1927) when she was just 12 years old. Along with over 40 movies, she had a successful stage career, spanning 1925 ('Crossings' with Ellen Terry) to 1994 ('Bed') - appearing in such works as 'Blithe Spirit', 'The Heiress' and 'Peter Pan', as the title role of the boy who never grew up.Phyllis' film breakthrough came in 1941 in the adaptation of the HG Wells story, Kipps (1941) in which she was cast as the servant girl, a part which had originally been turned down by Margaret Lockwood. In her next film, she was starring opposite international star Robert Donat, a far cry from the music hall comedians (George Formby, Arthur Askey) she had been acting with only a few years earlier. The Man in Grey (1943) truly catapulted her to stardom and from then on there was no looking back. Phyllis Calvert became one of the names most associated with the Gainsborough costume melodramas of the 1940s, usually as the sweet heroine, or the steadfast non-nonsense leader.After a small trip to Hollywood in the late 1940s, Phyllis returned to England and earned her one BAFTA nomination for the role of the mother of a deaf girl in Mandy (1952) but after that her film career slowed down, with family taking precedence. While shooting Indiscreet (1958), Phyllis was struck a cruel blow when her husband of 16 years, Peter Murray-Hill, passed away. Her stage career picked up markedly in the 1960s when she began taking more and more roles to better raise their two children solely. She gracefully slid into a niche of character roles, usually the kindly mother or aunt, and in 1970, had her own TV series, Kate (1970). In the 1980s she concentrated more on television, only appearing twice on stage. Her final play was in 1994, film in 1997, and TV appearance in 2000.
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As per our current Database, Phyllis Calvert has been died on 8 October 2002(2002-10-08) (aged 87)\nLondon, England.

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Popular As Phyllis Calvert
Occupation Actress
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born February 18, 1915 ( Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom)
Birthday February 18
Town/City  Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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Biography/Timeline

1927

Born in Chelsea, London, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing, and performed from the age of ten, performing with Ellen Terry in Crossings. She gained her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire.

1939

Calvert performed in repertory theatre in Malvern and Coventry. She made her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939. Her early films include Two Days to Live (1939).

1940

Calvert was in a war movie, Neutral Port (1940), then had a good role as Michael Redgrave's love interest in Kipps (1941), directed by Carol Reed. After a detective film Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It (1941) she had the co-lead in Uncensored (1942),a war movie with Eric Portman. Reed used her again in The Young Mr Pitt (1942), playing Eleanor Eden.

1942

In 1942, she had the lead role as Patricia Graham in the West End production of Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path.

1943

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 her sleep in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87.

1944

Calvert followed it with Fanny by Gaslight (1944), co-starring Granger and Mason, and another big hit. Also popular was Two Thousand Women (1944), made by Launder and Gilliat, about British women interned in occupied France. It co-starred Patricia Roc, who appeared with Calvert and Granger in Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945), another Gainsborough melodrama, and another hit. Calvert's successful run at the box office when she and Mason were reunited in They Were Sisters (1945), a more contemporary-set Gainsborough melodrama. Exhibitors voted her the fifth most popular star of 1945 in Britain.

1946

She was one of Stewart Granger's loves in The Magic Bow (1946) and had the female lead in a drama about colonialism in Africa Men of Two Worlds (1946), made a few years before being released. It was a success, though not profitable because of its high cost. The Root of All Evil (1947) was one of the last of the Gainsborough melodramas. She was voted the sixth most popular British star at the box office in 1946.

1947

Calvert's success had been noticed in the US, although her films had not been as popular there. Universal signed her to star in Time Out of Mind (1947), which was a box office disappointment. She received several offers from studios and eventually decided to sign a six-picture deal with Paramount.

1948

She returned to Britain to make Broken Journey (1948) playing a role written especially for her, but the film lost money.

1949

Calvert went to Hollywood to make two films, both for Paramount: My Own True Love (1949), with Melvyn Douglas, and Appointment with Danger (1951 but made two years earlier) with Alan Ladd, playing a nun. She did Peter Pan on stage in Britain.

1950

Back in Britain she made two films with Director Ladislao Vajda, neither particularly successful: Golden Madonna (1950), shot in Italy, and The Woman with No Name (1950). She invested her own money in the latter. She wanted to produce other films: Eastward Ho, about an Englishwoman who romances a Cowboy, and Equilibrium, about a trapeze Artist, as well as star in a third film for Paramount but none of these were made.

1951

Calvert was in a thriller Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) with John Mills and a BBC TV production The Holly and the Ivy (1951). She had her first big hit in a while, Mandy (1952).

1953

Calvert was a wife in The Net (1953) then was off screen for a while. He acted on stage in It's Never Too Late (1956), then appeared in the film version. She followed it with Child in the House (1956).

1958

Calvert had a support part in the Hollywood financed Indiscreet (1958) then played a concerned mother in The Young and the Guilty (1958) and a wacky spinster in A Lady Mislaid (1959). On TV she was in "The Break" for Armchair Theatre (1959) and played Katherine O'Shea in Parnell for Play of the Week (1959), then reprised her role as Mrs March for the BBC in Good Wives (1959). She was Constance Wilde in Oscar Wilde (1960) with Robert Morley and A Righteous Woman on Play of the Week (1962).

1965

She acted in over 40 films, her later films including The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965),Twisted Nerve (1968), Oh! What a Lovely War and The Walking Stick (1970).

1970

In 1970–72, she starred in her own TV series, playing the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own in Kate.

2013

She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry and Limelight: The Film Years – The Lime Grove Story. She also played D.I. Barnaby's Aunt Alice (Alice Bly) in a Midsomer Murders episode "Blue Herrings" in 2000. She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1972 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

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