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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 18, 1915
Died
October 8, 2002
Place of Birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Филлис Калверт
- Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill
Phyllis Calvert
0.4 Popularity
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
5.6
Aunt Helena
Mrs. Dalloway
1997
7.5
Alice Bly
Midsomer Murders
1997
0.0
Woman
Bed
1995
6.2
Mrs Gurney
The House of Eliott
1991
7.5
Hilary
Victoria Wood
1989
10.0
Queen Mary
The Woman He Loved
1988
5.8
Lady Dolly Campbell
Across the Lake
1988
0.0
Mrs. Heccomb
The Death of the Heart
1987
7.0
Carrie
All Passion Spent
1986
8.5
Carrie
All Passion Spent
1986
Credits
Mrs. Dalloway
as Aunt Helena
1997
5.6
Midsomer Murders
as Alice Bly
1997
7.5
Bed
as Woman
1995
0.0
The House of Eliott
as Mrs Gurney
1991
6.2
Victoria Wood
as Hilary
1989
7.5
The Woman He Loved
as Queen Mary
1988
10.0
Across the Lake
as Lady Dolly Campbell
1988
5.8
The Death of the Heart
as Mrs. Heccomb
1987
0.0
All Passion Spent
as Carrie
1986
7.0
All Passion Spent
as Carrie
1986
8.5
🎬
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
0.0
Casualty
as Mary
1986
6.1
Sherlock Holmes
as Agnes Garrideb
1984
8.1
Lady Killers
as Rosaline Fox
1980
5.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Mabel Ince
1979
6.7
The Walking Stick
as Erica Dainton
1970
7.5
🎬
Kate
1970
0.0
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Lady Dorothy Haig
1969
6.7
Twisted Nerve
as Enid Durnley
1968
6.8
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Margot
1965
4.8
Oscar Wilde
as Constance Wilde
1960
5.3
Indiscreet
as Mrs. Margaret Munson
1958
6.5
🎬
The Young and the Guilty
as Gladys Connor
1958
5.5
A Lady Mislaid
as Esther Wallace
1958
5.0
Child in the House
as Evelyn Acheson
1956
5.8
It's Never Too Late
as Laura Hammond
1956
6.0
The Net
as Lydia Heathley
1953
5.5
Mandy
as Christine Garland
1952
6.9
Mr. Denning Drives North
as Kay Denning
1951
6.0
🎬
The Woman with No Name
as Yvonne Winter
1950
6.0
Appointment with Danger
as Sister Augustine
1950
5.6
The Golden Madonna
as Patricia Chandler
1949
5.7
My Own True Love
as Joan Clews
1948
5.5
Broken Journey
as Mary Johnstone
1948
6.0
Time Out of Mind
as Kate Fernald
1947
5.3
The Root of All Evil
as Jeckie Farnish
1947
6.8
The Magic Bow
as Jeanne
1946
5.3
Men of Two Worlds
as Dr. Caroline Munro
1946
5.5
They Were Sisters
as Lucy Moore
1945
5.6
Madonna of the Seven Moons
as Maddalena Labardi
1945
6.3
Two Thousand Women
as Freda Thompson
1944
6.9
Fanny by Gaslight
as Fanny
1944
5.7
The Man in Grey
as Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
1943
6.0
The Young Mr. Pitt
as Eleanor Eden
1942
5.7
Uncensored
as Julie Lanvin
1942
0.0
Kipps
as Ann Pornick (adult)
1941
5.6
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
as Mrs. Wilkinson
1941
6.9
🎬
Neutral Port
as Helen Carter
1940
6.0
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
as Betty Forsythe
1940
5.0
Let George Do It!
as Mary Wilson
1940
5.8
They Came by Night
as Sally
1940
5.0