Helen Horton
- Schauspiel
- 28. September 1923 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 28. September 2007
Biografie
Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien. Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Night, with Neal cast as Olivia, in a university production of the Shakespeare play. In September 1945, Horton and Neal took a shared apartment in New York and looked for work. They both got parts in a production of Seven Mirrors at the Blackfriars Theatre. Horton took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire after the play's London run was completed and it began to tour the United Kingdom. When Neal mentioned the connection to Leigh, she remarked "No one takes over for me, dear. When I leave a play, it's over."
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Filmografie
- Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files · ALA Group Leader
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · Julia Olivera
- König ihres Herzens · Martha
- Society · Nurse at Playhouse
- Reunion at Fairborough · Mrs Bigard
- Auf Messers Schneide · Red Cross Lady
- Superman III - Der stählerne Blitz · Miss Henderson
- The Best of Friends · Mrs Lovsky
- Der Aufpasser · Judge's Wife
- Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt · Mother (Stimme)
- Die unglaublichen Geschichten von Roald Dahl · American Passenger, Martha
- Nido de viudas · Ana
- Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes · Nancy
- Two's Company · Clare
- Phase IV · Mildred Eldridge
- Centre Play · Nancy
- Mord nach Maß · Aunt Beth
- Van der Valk · Mrs Lovell Wallace
- Anne of Green Gables · Mrs Barry
- The Pueblo Affair · Mrs. Bucher
- The Benny Hill Show
- Der gefährlichste Mann der Welt · Susan Wright
- The Last Shot You Hear · Dodie Rubens
- Satisfaction Guaranteed · Brenda Claffern
- BBC Play of the Month · Grace Torrence
- Out of the Unknown · Brenda Claffern
- The Troubleshooters · Lois Winstanley
- Espionage · Mrs Quade
- Hurricane · Mrs. Van Diemen
- Geheimauftrag für John Drake · Helen
- Vertraue keinem Fremden · Sylvia Kingsley
- The Mark of the Hawk · Barbara Craig
- Thunder on Sycamore Street · Clarice Morrison
- Die Frau meiner Sehnsucht · Sadie Whitelaw
- Strange Stories · Marie ('Strange Journey')