Phyllis Calvert

Phyllis Calvert

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Birthday: 
18 February 1915, Chelsea, London, England, UK
Birth Name: 
Phyllis Hannah Bickle
Height: 
165 cm
Phyllis Hannah Bickle was born in Chelsea in 1915 and studied dancing at the Margaret Morris school of dance, until an injury forced her to give up dancing and turn instead to acting. Her 70 year film career began with a bit part in The Arcadians (1927) when she was just 12 years old. Along with over 40 movies, she had a successful stage career, sp... Show more »
Phyllis Hannah Bickle was born in Chelsea in 1915 and studied dancing at the Margaret Morris school of dance, until an injury forced her to give up dancing and turn instead to acting. Her 70 year film career began with a bit part in The Arcadians (1927) when she was just 12 years old. Along with over 40 movies, she had a successful stage career, spanning 1925 ('Crossings' with Ellen Terry) to 1994 ('Bed') - appearing in such works as 'Blithe Spirit', 'The Heiress' and 'Peter Pan', as the title role of the boy who never grew up.Phyllis' film breakthrough came in 1941 in the adaptation of the HG Wells story, Kipps (1941) in which she was cast as the servant girl, a part which had originally been turned down by Margaret Lockwood. In her next film, she was starring opposite international star Robert Donat, a far cry from the music hall comedians (George Formby, Arthur Askey) she had been acting with only a few years earlier. The Man in Grey (1943) truly catapulted her to stardom and from then on there was no looking back. Phyllis Calvert became one of the names most associated with the Gainsborough costume melodramas of the 1940s, usually as the sweet heroine, or the steadfast non-nonsense leader.After a small trip to Hollywood in the late 1940s, Phyllis returned to England and earned her one BAFTA nomination for the role of the mother of a deaf girl in Mandy (1952) but after that her film career slowed down, with family taking precedence. While shooting Indiscreet (1958), Phyllis was struck a cruel blow when her husband of 16 years, Peter Murray-Hill, passed away. Her stage career picked up markedly in the 1960s when she began taking more and more roles to better raise their two children solely. She gracefully slid into a niche of character roles, usually the kindly mother or aunt, and in 1970, had her own TV series, Kate (1970). In the 1980s she concentrated more on television, only appearing twice on stage. Her final play was in 1994, film in 1997, and TV appearance in 2000. Show less «

Phyllis Calvert's FILMOGRAPHY

Midsomer Murders - Season 24

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Midsomer Murders - Season 23

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Midsomer Murders - Season 22

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Midsomer Murders - Season 21

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Midsomer Murders - Season 20

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Midsomer Murders - Season 19

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Midsomer Murders - Season 18

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Midsomer Murders - Season 17

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Midsomer Murders - Season 16

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Midsomer Murders - Season 15

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Midsomer Murders - Season 14

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Midsomer Murders - Season 13

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Midsomer Murders - Season 12

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Midsomer Murders - Season 11

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Midsomer Murders - Season 10

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Midsomer Murders - Season 9

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Midsomer Murders - Season 8

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Midsomer Murders - Season 7

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Midsomer Murders - Season 6

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Midsomer Murders - Season 5

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Midsomer Murders - Season 4

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Midsomer Murders - Season 2

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Midsomer Murders - Season 3

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