Beatrix Lehmann

Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 – 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.^[1][2]

Early life and family

Lehmann was born in

She was awarded Britain's Radio Actress of the Year in 1977.[7] In 1962 she played the matriarch Bernadette Amorelle in a Maigret episode, The Dirty House. She played Susan Calvin in "The Prophet" (1967), a now lost episode of the British science fiction television series Out of the Unknown, and appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Stones of Blood (1978) as Professor Emilia Rumford.^[8] In 1978 she played Mrs Pleasant in a film version of The Cat and The Canary.^[9] Other roles include

Lehmann died in Camden, London, aged 76.

There are 12 portraits of Lehmann in the British

• The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) as Miss Kite
• Strangers on Honeymoon (1936) as Elfrida
• The Rat (1937) as Marguerite
• Candles at Nine (1944) as Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
• The Key (1958) as Housekeeper
• On the Fiddle (1961) as Lady Edith
• Psyche 59 (1964) as Mrs. Crawford
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  (1965) as Tribunal President
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) as Domina's Mother
• Wonderwall (1968) as Mother
• The Portrait of a Lady (1968, TV Series) as Lydia Touchett
• Staircase (1969) as Charlie's Mother
• The Cat and the Canary
  (1978) as Mrs. Pleasant
• The Stones of Blood (Doctor Who) (1978) as Professor Rumford

References

External links

• Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
• Beatrix Lehmann at
  IMDb
• Beatrix Lehmann Obituary in The New York Times