Mary first appeared on stage aged just 10. She received her formal training at the royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and went on to a long and distinguished career in film, television and the theatre. She toured Britain with her own theatrical touring company.
Although she played Anna Neagle's mother in Victoria the Great (1937), she was eleven years Neagle's junior in real life.
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Diminutive, deep-voiced British stage actress, often seen in dominant or villainous roles. She was educated in England and made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1935.
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Originally cast as "Consul Katura" in Doctor Who (1963): The Keeper Of Traken.
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A possible for the role of "Maren" in Doctor Who (1963): The Brain of Morbius.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Screen Two
1990
TV Series
Mrs. Wan
Mystery!: Campion
1989
TV Series
Caroline Faraday
The Ray Bradbury Theater
1988
TV Series
Matilda Hanks
Sunday Premiere
1987
TV Series
Miss Browning-Browning
The Moon Over Soho
1985
TV Movie
Frieda King
The Life and Death of King John
1984
TV Movie
Queen Elinor
Diana
1984
TV Mini-Series
Miss Westcott
Shades of Darkness
1983
TV Series
Seaton's Aunt
Doctor Who
1982
TV Series
Panna
Richard II
1978
TV Movie
Duchess of Gloucester
Anna Karenina
1977
TV Mini-Series
Countess Vronsky
The Haunting of Julia
1977
Greta Braden
The Velvet Glove
1977
TV Series
Mary Baker Eddy
Play for Today
1976
TV Series
Bernarda
Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
1975
TV Mini-Series
Aunt Rosalie
Ballet Shoes
1975
TV Mini-Series
Madame Fidolia
Ten from the Twenties
1975
TV Series
Aunt Tatty
An Unofficial Rose
1974-1975
TV Mini-Series
Emma Sands
ITV Sunday Night Drama
1974
TV Series
Alfreda
Village Hall
1974
TV Series
Dame
Boy Dominic
1974
TV Series
Lady Bulman
Hunter's Walk
1973
TV Series
Beatrice Hill
BBC Play of the Month
1971
TV Series
Madame Pernelle
Kate
1971
TV Series
Isobel Farmer
Wicked Women
1970
TV Series
Madame Bonheur
Plays of Today
1969
TV Series
Scotch Ellen
Theatre 625
1965-1968
TV Series
Sister Leonora / Agatha / Doktor von Zahnd
The Prisoner
1967
TV Series
Number Two
Trapped
1967
TV Series
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1967
TV Series
The woman
Londoners
1965
TV Series
Sarah Ashton
It's Dark Outside
1965
TV Series
Mrs. Vanister
The Spread of the Eagle
1963
TV Mini-Series
Cleopatra
Ghost Squad
1963
TV Series
Dr. Ibanez
The Andromeda Breakthrough
1962
TV Series
Madeleine Dawnay
Under Western Eyes
1962
TV Movie
Tekla
ITV Play of the Week
1961
TV Series
Varvara
A for Andromeda
1961
TV Series
Professor Madeleine Dawnay
An Age of Kings
1960
TV Series
Margaret, Queen to King Henry
Queen Margaret, widow to Henry VI
Margaret, Queen of England
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