Mary Morris
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Born |
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris 13 December 1915 Lautoka, Fiji |
Died |
14 October 1988 72) Aigle, Switzerland | (aged
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1937–1988 |
Mary Lilian Agnes Morris (13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a British actress.
Life and career
Morris was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, a botanist, and his wife Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Morris made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London in 1935. In 1943 she played Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing war movie Undercover as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader, and appeared in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. On television, she played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough), Queen Margaret in the ground-breaking An Age of Kings,and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (as part of the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman plays, The Spread of the Eagle) in 1963.[1]
As a Number Two in The Prisoner's episode "Dance of the Dead" she dressed as Peter Pan during a masquerade ball. After an absence of many years, she reappeared in diverse film roles such as Madame Fidolia the Russian ballerina and theatre school director in the 1975 BBC film Ballet Shoes, and the mother of the murdered boy in the 1977 horror film Full Circle. She also appeared on television in Doctor Who in the story Kinda (1982), playing the pivotal role of the shaman Panna opposite Peter Davison.
Her other television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in the BBC's Anna Karenina (1977), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter de la Mare story Seaton's Aunt (1983) in Granada Television's Shades of Darkness series, Mrs Browning-Browning in Stephen Wyatt's Claws (BBC 1 1987) and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral, an adaptation of one of Margery Allingham's Albert Campion stories for the BBC's Campion (1989).
Death
She died from heart failure on 14 October 1988 in Aigle, Switzerland.
Complete filmography
- Victoria the Great (1937)
- Prison Without Bars (1938)
- The Spy in Black (1939)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Who Killed Jack Robins? (1940)
- Major Barbara (1941)
- "Pimpernel" Smith (1941)
- Undercover (1943)
- The Man from Morocco (1945)
- The Agitator (1945)
- The Trial of Madeleine Smith (1949 TV movie)
- Train of Events (1949)
- High Treason (1951)
- The Pythoness (1951) (voice)
- The Young Elizabeth (1953 TV movie)
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1954 TV movie)
- The Face of Love (1954 TV movie)
- Uncle Harry (1958 TV movie)
- Under Western Eyes (1962 TV movie)
- Full Circle (1977)
- Richard II (1978 TV movie)
- The Life and Death of King John (1984 TV movie)
- The Moon Over Soho (1985 TV movie)
Selected television appearances
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- An Age of Kings
- Interpol Calling
- A for Andromeda
- The Andromeda Breakthrough
- Ghost Squad
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
- The Prisoner
- Theatre 625
- Men of Iron
- Play of the Month
- An Unofficial Rose
- Ballet Shoes
- Play for Today
- Full Circle
- Anna Karenina
- King Richard II
- Doctor Who
- Diana
- The Life and Death of King John
- Claws
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Campion
References
Links
External links
- Mary Morris on IMDb