Marie Burke
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Marie Burke | |
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Born | Marie Rosa Altfuldisch 18 October 1894 |
Died | 21 March 1988 | (aged 93)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1917–1971 |
Spouse | Tom Burke |
Children | Patricia Burke |
Marie Burke (born Marie Rosa Altfuldisch, later Holt, 18 October 1894 – 21 March 1988) was an English actress of stage, cinema and television.[1][2] She appeared in over 40 films between 1917 and 1971, and appeared in TV series between 1953 and 1969.[2]
Biography
Burke was born in London in 1894 to Rosa (née Underwood) and Ferdinand Altfuldisch (sometimes transcribed as Altfieldisch). The family changed their name to Holt during World War I.[citation needed]
Career
Marie Burke was a British character comedian and trained as an operatic singer in Italy.[3][4] She appeared in films in 1917, before making her stage debut in 1919.[5]
As a member of the Katja Company she was touring Australia in 1926 when she and her colleague, the tenor Warde Morgan, were seriously injured in the Aberdeen Rail Disaster.[6]
She met and married British operatic tenor
In 1929, Burke was a founding member of
Selected filmography
- The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917) - uncredited
- The Girl and the Judge (1918)
- The Love Defender (1919)
- Help! Help! Police! (1919)
- A House Divided (1919)
- My Little Sister (1919)
- The Glorious Lady (1919)
- The Gray Towers Mystery (1919)
- Sooner or Later (1920)
- His House in Order (1920)
- Remodeling Her Husband (1920)
- A Dark Lantern (1920)
- Little Miss Rebellion (1920)
- The New York Idea (1920)
- Why Announce Your Marriage? (1922)
- Without Fear (1922)
- Evidence (1922)
- Slim Shoulders (1922)
- Isle of Doubt (1922)
- The Face in the Fog (1922)
- Lohengrins Heirat (English: Lohengrin's Marriage), released in Germany (1922)
- Youthful Cheaters (1923)
- The Heart Raider (1923)
- Little Old New York (1923)
- Three Miles Out (1924)
- Who's Cheating? (1924)
- White Mice (1926)
- Unmasked (1929)
- After the Ball (1932)
- Warning to Wantons (1949)
- Temptations (1949)
- Madness of the Heart (1949)
- The Man from Yesterday (1949)
- Odette (1950)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- The Flanagan Boy, released in the US as Bad Blonde (1953)
- The Constant Husband (1955)
- The Green Man (1956)
- Face in the Night, released in the US as Menace in the Night (1957)
- Miracle in Soho (1957)
- The Snorkel (1958)
- The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
- The Rebel, released in the US as Call Me Genius (1961)
- The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
- Rattle of a Simple Man (1964)
- Devils of Darkness (1965)
- Lost Command (1966)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
Television series
- Rheingold Theatre(1953) - 1 episode
- London Playhouse (1956) - 1 episode
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1957) - 4 episodes
- BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960) - 1 episode
- Danger Man (1960-1961) - 2 episodes
- Magnolia Street (1961) - 1 episode
- Sir Francis Drake (1962)
- Zero One (1963)
- Emergency - Ward 10(1964)
- ITV Play of the Week(1958-1965) - 3 episodes
- The Saint (1962-1969) - 5 episodes
References
- ^ "Marie Burke – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ a b "Marie Burke". BFI. Archived from the original on 28 May 2018.
- ISBN 9781526111968– via Google Books.
- ^ "Marie Burke | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Marie Burke | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
- ^ The Brisbane Courier 27 August 1926.
- ^ John D. Vose The Lancashire Caruso: the Life and Times of Tom Burke (1982), reviewed by Paul Morby in Record Collector, Vol. 28, 3&4, 1983, and see also the short article by F.S (Joe) Winstanley in the same issue.
External links
- Marie Burke at IMDb
- Marie Burke at the Internet Broadway Database
- Marie Burke on BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs (1956)