Gwen Watford
- Acting
- September 10, 1927 · London, England, UK
- February 6, 1994
Biography
Gwen Watford (10 September 1927 — 6 February 1994) was an English film, stage, and television actress. She married actor Richard Bebb in 1952. Born in London, Watford trained at the Embassy Theatre and the Old Vic. She made her film debut playing Lady Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (1949). Other films include Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960), The Very Edge (1962), Cleopatra (1963), and Cry Freedom (1987). She died from cancer, aged 66, in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gwen Watford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side · Mrs. Dolly Bantry
- Relatively Speaking · Sheila Carter
- The Winslow Boy · Grace Winslow
- Behaving Badly
- The Yob · Mrs Kendel
- Cry Freedom · Wendy's Mother
- Theatre Night · Grace Winslow
- Miss Marple: The Body in the Library · Dolly Bantry
- Miss Marple · Mrs. Bantry
- Weekend Playhouse · Regina
- Sorrell and Son · Dora Sorrell
- Sharing Time · Belle
- Reluctant Chickens · Jo
- John David · Cynthia
- The Comic Strip Presents... · Mrs. Kendel
- The Agatha Christie Hour · Mariah Packington
- Present Laughter · Monica Reed
- Shillingbury Tales · Martha Langton
- Do You Remember? · Lady Frinton
- Age of Hypocrisy · Rita Iverson
- Don't Forget to Write! · Mabel Maple
- Jubilee 1977 · Rita Iverson
- Tomkinson's Schooldays · Mummy
- Ripping Yarns
- Ten from the Twenties · Aunt Lizzie
- The Ghoul · Ayah
- In This House of Brede · Dame Catherine
- Bedtime Stories · Irene James
- Between the Wars · Mrs. Tonge
- Man Above Men · Susan
- Just in Time for Christmas · Janet Nottage
- The Train Now Standing
- Play for Today · Susan, Jo
- Menace · Hilly Parsloe
- Husbands and Lovers · Baroness
- Shadows of Fear
- Taste the Blood of Dracula · Martha Hargood
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Nicola
- Stand by Your Screen · Ada Gritter
- The Company of Five · Mrs Gifford, Helen Sinclair
- The Root of All Evil? · Mabel Maple
- Let's Murder Vivaldi · Monica
- The Gamblers · Rachel Grant
- ITV Playhouse · Dola
- Half Hour Story · Ruth
- The Noise Stopped · Diana
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Carla Hudson, Isobelle
- Blackmail · Alice Rollings
- Do You Know This Voice? · Jackie Hopta
- The Wednesday Play · Monica
- Jackals in the Desert · Mrs Marsh
- Cleopatra · Calpurnia
- The Very Edge · Sister Holden
- The Threatening Storm
- The Grass Is Greener · Hairdresser's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Armchair Mystery Theatre · Paula
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger · Sally Carter
- A Woman of No Importance · Mrs. Arbuthnot
- The Silver Sword
- Armchair Theatre · Marion Sharpe, Diana
- Jesus of Nazareth · Mary, mother of Jesus
- The Fall of the House of Usher · Lady Usher