Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 18, 1915
Died
Oct 08, 2002
Place of Birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Credits
63 titles
Phyllis Calvert
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.
Known For
Filmography
Mrs. Dalloway
Aunt Helena
Midsomer Murders
Alice Bly
Bed
Couple Woman
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb
Jute City
Lady Muircross
Performance
Woman
The House of Eliott
Mrs Gurney
Victoria Wood
Hilary
Across the Lake
Lady Dolly Campbell
The Woman He Loved
Queen Mary
After Henry
Auntie Lilian
The Death of the Heart
Mrs. Heccomb
A Killing on the Exchange
Alison Tyndall
All Passion Spent
Carrie
All Passion Spent
Carrie
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
Casualty
Mary
A Month in the Country
Anna
Cover Her Face
Eleanor Maxie
Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb
Lady Killers
Rosaline Fox
Tales of the Unexpected
Mabel Ince
The Walking Stick
Erica Dainton
Kate
Kate Graham
Oh! What a Lovely War
Lady Dorothy Haig
Twisted Nerve
Enid Durnley
ITV Playhouse
Mrs Radcliffe
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Margot
Oscar Wilde
Constance Wilde
Indiscreet
Mrs. Margaret Munson
The Young and the Guilty
Gladys Connor
A Lady Mislaid
Esther Wallace
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Tatiana
Child in the House
Evelyn Acheson
Armchair Theatre
Esther Ross
It's Never Too Late
Laura Hammond
The Net
Lydia Heathley
The Postman
Mandy
Christine Garland
Mr. Denning Drives North
Kay Denning
The Woman with No Name
Yvonne Winter
Appointment with Danger
Sister Augustine
The Golden Madonna
Patricia Chandler
My Own True Love
Joan Clews
Broken Journey
Mary Johnstone
Time Out of Mind
Kate Fernald
The Root of All Evil
Jeckie Farnish
The Magic Bow
Jeanne
Men of Two Worlds
Dr. Caroline Munro
They Were Sisters
Lucy Moore