Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 07, 1915
Died
Mar 14, 1979
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Credits
35 titles
Yvonne Mitchell
Biography
Yvonne Mitchell was born on July 7, 1915, in London and was first and foremost a stage actress who, after being educated at St Paul's Girls School in London and The London Theatre Studio, began her theatrical career in the late 1930s. By the time of her death, she had performed under the theatre lights for over four decades. Her output in films and TV paled in comparison, but the work she put out in those mediums were of unusually high quality with mature themes. The dark-haired actress made her starring film debut in The Queen of Spades (1949) and proceeded to become a moving, thoughtful, often anguished presence throughout the 1950s, winning the British Film Award for her touching, sterling performance as the biological mother of a foster child in The Divided Heart (1954). Her slovenly, cuckolded wife in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) won her the Berlin International Film Festival Award. Other important films included Escapade (1955), Sapphire (1959), The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) and Johnny Nobody (1961). On the sly, Yvonne was a novelist of both children and adult books and an award-winning playwright. She also penned an enormously successful biography entitled "Colette--A Taste for Life" based on the famed French writer. The wife of film and stage critic Derek Monsey, she wrote her biography in 1957. She died of cancer on March 24, 1979, in London.
Known For
Filmography
Widows' Nest
Elvira
1990
Kate Smith
The Incredible Sarah
Mam'selle
The Legend of Robin Hood
Queen Eleanor
Chéri
Léa
Demons of the Mind
Hilda
The Great Waltz
Anna Strauss
Crucible of Horror
Edith Eastwood
The Jazz Age
Mother
One Pair of Eyes
The Machine Stops
Vashti
Out of the Unknown
Vashti
Genghis Khan
Katke
The Main Attraction
Elenora Moreno
Johnny Nobody
Miss Mary Floyd
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Constance
Conspiracy of Hearts
Sister Gerta
Sapphire
Mildred
Tiger Bay
Anya
Storm Over Jamaica
Mrs. Pawley
Gideon's Day
Policewoman (uncredited)
Woman in a Dressing Gown
Amy Preston
Armchair Theatre
Esther Brodsky
Yield to the Night
Matron Hilda MacFarlane
Escapade
Mrs. Stella Hampden
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Julia
The Divided Heart
Sonja
Tonight in Britain
Self
Wuthering Heights
Cathy
Turn the Key Softly
Monica Marsden
The Dybbuk
Leah
Sunday Night Theatre
Julia Dixon
Children of Chance
Australia
The Queen of Spades
Lizavetta Ivanova
Love on the Dole
Factory Worker at Gate