Alison Leggatt
Alison Leggatt | |
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 Photo by Bassano Ltd,1927 | |
| Born | Alison Joy Leggatt 7 February 1904 Kensington, London, England |
| Died | 15 July 1990 (aged 86) London, England |
| Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
Alison Joy Leggatt (7 February 1904 – 15 July 1990) was an English character actress.
Career
Born in the
British working class.[5] She was known for playing a variety of disapproving in-laws, motherly landladies, nosy neighbours and helpful housekeepers.[6] She played opposite Petula Clark three times, in Here Come the Huggetts (1948), The Card (1952) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). In the John Schlesinger film version of Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) she played Mrs Hurst; her final screen appearance was in the Sherlock Holmes film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976).[7]
Additional theatre work included appearances at
T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and The Confidential Clerk in 1950 and 1954; John Osborne's Epitaph for George Dillon in 1958 (and its Broadway transfer); Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache in 1961; and N. F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum in 1959 (and its 1964 film version).[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Leggatt's television credits include
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1966) (as the Queen of Hearts), the 1975 mini-series Edward the Seventh, in which she portrayed Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent,[16] and a memorable turn in an episode of the prison drama series Within These Walls
(1978), where she played Alice Drewett, the narcissistic sister of an inmate who is released into her 'care'.
Death
Alison Leggatt died of natural causes in London, aged 86.[2]
Selected filmography
- Nine till Six (1932) as Freda
- This Happy Breed (1944) as Aunt Sylvia
- Waterloo Road (1945) as Ruby
- It's Hard to Be Good (1948) as Mrs. Buck
- Here Come the Huggetts (1948) as Miss Perks
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) as Mrs. Howarth
- Marry Me! (1949) as Miss Beamish
- The Miniver Story (1950) as Mrs. Foley (uncredited)
- Encore (1951) as Freda Ramsay (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
- The Card (1952) as Mrs. Cotterill (uncredited)
- Noose for a Lady (1953) as Mrs. Langdon-Humphries
- Touch and Go (1955) as Alice Fairbright
- Woman Possessed (1958) as Emma
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) as Martha
- Goodbye Again (1961) as Alice
- The Day of the Triffids (1962) as Miss Coker
- Nothing but the Best (1964) as Mrs. Brewster
- One Way Pendulum (1964) as Mrs. Groomkirby
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) as Mrs. Hurst
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) as Headmaster's Wife
- The Hireling (1973)
- Edward The Seventh (1975) as Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Mrs. Hudson
References
- ^ V&A Archives, Theatre & Performance Special Collections, Elsie Fogerty Archive, THM/324
- ^ a b AP (19 July 1990). "Alison Leggatt Is Dead; British Actress Was 86". The New York Times.
- ^ "Production of The Fanatics - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Production of Cavalcade - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: This Happy Breed (1944)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "Alison Leggatt - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Alison Leggatt". Archived from the original on 20 November 2018.
- ^ "Alison Leggatt - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Production of Geneva - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ISBN 9780810893085– via Google Books.
- ^ "Production of The Confidential Clerk - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ League, The Broadway. "Epitaph for George Dillon – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ISBN 9780571301133– via Google Books.
- ^ "Production of One Way Pendulum - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "One Way Pendulum (1964)". Archived from the original on 9 March 2016.
- ^ "The New World (1975)". Archived from the original on 4 January 2018.
External links
- Alison Leggatt at IMDb
- Alison Leggatt at the Internet Broadway Database
