Phyllis Calvert
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 18, 1915
- Died
- October 8, 2002 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
Mrs. Dalloway
Movie · as Aunt Helena
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Alice Bly · 1 ep
Bed
Movie · as Couple Woman
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Agnes Garrideb · 1 ep
The House of Eliott
TV · as Mrs Gurney · 1 ep
Performance
TV · as Woman · 1 ep
Jute City
TV · as Lady Muircross · 3 eps
Victoria Wood
TV · as Hilary · 1 ep
The Woman He Loved
Movie · as Queen Mary
Across the Lake
Movie · as Lady Dolly Campbell
After Henry
TV · as Auntie Lilian · 2 eps
The Death of the Heart
Movie · as Mrs. Heccomb
A Killing on the Exchange
TV · as Alison Tyndall · 3 eps
All Passion Spent
Movie · as Carrie
Casualty
TV · as Mary · 1 ep
All Passion Spent
TV · as Carrie · 3 eps
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
TV · 1 ep
A Month in the Country
Movie · as Anna
Cover Her Face
TV · as Eleanor Maxie · 6 eps
Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Agnes Garrideb · 1 ep
Lady Killers
TV · as Rosaline Fox · 1 ep
Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Mabel Ince · 1 ep
The Walking Stick
Movie · as Erica Dainton
Kate
TV · as Kate Graham · 38 eps
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie · as Lady Dorothy Haig
Twisted Nerve
Movie · as Enid Durnley
ITV Playhouse
TV · as Mrs Radcliffe · 1 ep
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Movie · as Margot
Oscar Wilde
Movie · as Constance Wilde
Indiscreet
Movie · as Mrs. Margaret Munson
The Young and the Guilty
Movie · as Gladys Connor
A Lady Mislaid
Movie · as Esther Wallace
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
TV · as Tatiana · 1 ep
Child in the House
Movie · as Evelyn Acheson
It's Never Too Late
Movie · as Laura Hammond
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Esther Ross · 1 ep
The Net
Movie · as Lydia Heathley
Mandy
Movie · as Christine Garland
The Postman
Movie
Mr. Denning Drives North
Movie · as Kay Denning
Appointment with Danger
Movie · as Sister Augustine
The Woman with No Name
Movie · as Yvonne Winter
The Golden Madonna
Movie · as Patricia Chandler
My Own True Love
Movie · as Joan Clews
Broken Journey
Movie · as Mary Johnstone
The Root of All Evil
Movie · as Jeckie Farnish
Time Out of Mind
Movie · as Kate Fernald
The Magic Bow
Movie · as Jeanne
Men of Two Worlds
Movie · as Dr. Caroline Munro
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Movie · as Maddalena Labardi
They Were Sisters
Movie · as Lucy Moore
Two Thousand Women
Movie · as Freda Thompson
Fanny by Gaslight
Movie · as Fanny
The Man in Grey
Movie · as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
The Young Mr. Pitt
Movie · as Eleanor Eden
Uncensored
Movie · as Julie Lanvin
Kipps
Movie · as Ann Pornick (adult)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Movie · as Mrs. Wilkinson
Let George Do It!
Movie · as Mary Wilson
They Came by Night
Movie · as Sally
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Movie · as Betty Forsythe
Neutral Port
Movie · as Helen Carter
Two Days to Live
Movie · as Joyce