Sarah Brackett
Sarah Evershed Brackett (13 May 1938 – June 1996) was an American-born television and film actress who worked mostly in Britain.
Brackett's parents were William Oliver Brackett (1901–1945), a Presbyterian minister, and his wife Nancy Alexis Thompson, who had been born in Scotland. They were married in Edinburgh in 1931,[1] and Brackett was born in Lake Forest, Illinois.[2] In 1945, her father died, and her mother decided to return home, so that from the age of seven Brackett was brought up in Scotland.[3] She trained for an acting career at the Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama. Her entry in Spotlight in 1966 reported that she spoke fluent French and German.[4]
Brackett began her career in the theatre. In 1960 she was in repertory at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews,[3] and in 1961 played Portia in a production of The Merchant of Venice at the Colchester Repertory Theatre.[5] She also appeared in West End musicals, including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Strand Theatre, and in a production of Funny Girl at the Prince of Wales in 1966 she played Vera, a showgirl.[4]
She last worked as an actress in the late 1980s. On 3 July 1996, she was found dead in her flat in Westminster, London. The cause of death was found to be suicide and the date was estimated as 17 June.[6]
Filmography
- Hugh and I: April in Paris (1963) : Check-in Clerk
- The Third Secret (1964) : Nurse
- The Saint: The Unkind Philanthropist (1964) : Tristan Brown
- The Masque of the Red Death (1964) : Grandmother
- Danger Man (1965) : Annette / Glover's secretary
- BBC Play of the Month Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) : Katherine Mallory
- Funeral in Berlin (1966) : Babcock
- George and the Dragon The French Lesson (1967) : Air Hostess
- Battle Beneath the Earth (1967) : Meg Webson
- Detective: Deaths on the Champs Elysees (1968) : Valerie Dupont
- The Portrait of a Lady (television series, 1968) : Henrietta Stackpole[7]
- The Way We Live Now (television series, 1969): Mrs Hurtle
- Counterstrike (1969 BBC television series) : Mary
- Sex Play (1974) : Harriet Best
- Katy (television series, 1976) : Mrs Florence
- The Awakening of Emily (1976) : Margaret Foster
- Oppenheimer (1980 miniseries) : Priscilla Duffield
- Priest of Love (1981) : Achsah Barlow Brewster
- The Lords of Discipline (1981) : Mrs Durrell
- The Old Men at the Zoo (1983) : Reporter at White House
- Scream for Help (1984) : School Secretary
- What Mad Pursuit? (1985) : Lady at Literary Luncheon
- Odyssée d'amour (1987)
Notes
- ↑ Michael Cross, West Hill Cemetery, Sherman , Grayson County, Texas (Bogar-Buchanan, 2000)
- ↑ Chicago Tribune dated May 19, 1938
- 1 2 National Geographic, 1961 volume, p. 539
- 1 2 Spotlight Issue 118, Part 2 (1966), p. 1459
- ↑ The Shakespeare Quarterly (Folger Shakespeare Library, 1962), p. 118
- ↑ Zouina Benhalla, I Still Miss You (2013), p. 19
- ↑ Susan M. Griffin, Henry James Goes to the Movies (2015), p. 347