
Phyllis Calvert
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1915-02-18
Day of Death
2002-10-08 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
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.
Acting
(1997)
Mrs. Dalloway
as Aunt Helena
(1995)
Bed
as Woman
(1988)
The Woman He Loved
as Queen Mary
(1988)
Across the Lake
as Lady Dolly Campbell
(1987)
The Death of the Heart
as Mrs. Heccomb
(1986)
All Passion Spent
as Carrie
(1970)
The Walking Stick
as Erica Dainton
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Lady Dorothy Haig
(1968)
Twisted Nerve
as Enid Durnley
(1965)
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Margot
(1960)
Oscar Wilde
as Constance Wilde
(1958)
Indiscreet
as Mrs. Margaret Munson
(1958)
A Lady Mislaid
as Esther Wallace
(1958)
The Young and the Guilty
as Gladys Connor
(1956)
Child in the House
as Evelyn Acheson
(1956)
It's Never Too Late
as Laura Hammond
(1953)
The Net
as Lydia Heathley
(1952)
Mandy
as Christine Garland
(1951)
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Kay Denning
(1950)
Appointment with Danger
as Sister Augustine
(1950)
The Woman with No Name
as Yvonne Winter
(1949)
The Golden Madonna
as Patricia Chandler
(1948)
Broken Journey
as Mary Johnstone
(1948)
My Own True Love
as Joan Clews
(1947)
The Root of All Evil
as Jeckie Farnish
(1947)
Time Out of Mind
as Kate Fernald
(1946)
The Magic Bow
as Jeanne
(1946)
Men of Two Worlds
as Dr. Caroline Munro
(1945)
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Maddalena Labardi
(1945)
They Were Sisters
as Lucy Moore
(1944)
Fanny by Gaslight
as Fanny
(1944)
Two Thousand Women
as Freda Thompson
(1943)
The Man in Grey
as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
(1942)
Uncensored
as Julie Lanvin
(1942)
The Young Mr. Pitt
as Eleanor Eden
(1941)
Kipps
as Ann Pornick (adult)
(1941)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
as Mrs. Wilkinson
(1940)
Let George Do It!
as Mary Wilson
(1940)
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
as Betty Forsythe
(1940)
They Came by Night
as Sally
(1940)
Neutral Port
as Helen Carter