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Dulcie Gray

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist. Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Affair in 1950 and the Battle of Britain movie Angels One Five in 1952. Her performance as the luckless waitress Rose in the original stage production of Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre in 1944 led to Gray being offered a contract with Gainsborough Pictures. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh. During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90). Gray and Denison made their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, appearing as Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham from 1 May 1996 until 26 January 1997. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green. In 1999, the year after her husband's death, she played Mrs Wilberforce in an 18-city tour of UK theatres in a stage adaptation of the 1955 Ealing classic film, The Ladykillers. She last appeared on screen in 2000 in an episode of the BBC drama series Doctors. Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.


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Born:
Nov 20, 1919 In Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Movie/TV Credits:
21
First Appeared:
In the movie Two Thousand Women 1944-11-06
Latest Project:
Movie A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest 1999-01-01
Known For
Poster of A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
Poster of Tales from the Crypt
Poster of There Was a Young Lady
Poster of A Place of One's Own
Filmography
Movie A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest 1999-01-01
Series Tales from the Crypt Unknown 1989-06-10
Series Howards' Way Kate Harvey 1985-09-01
Series Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime Unknown 1983-10-09
Movie Life After Death Sales Assistant 1982-02-02
Series Rumpole of the Bailey Unknown 1975-12-17
Series Crown Court Unknown 1972-10-11
Movie A Man Could Get Killed Mrs. Mathieson 1966-03-25
Movie There Was a Young Lady Elizabeth Foster 1953-01-01
Movie Angels One Five Nadine Clinton 1952-03-19
Movie The Franchise Affair Marion Sharpe 1951-02-19
Movie The Glass Mountain Anne Wilder 1949-03-09
Movie My Brother Jonathan Rachel Hammond 1948-02-05
Movie A Man About the House Ellen Isit 1947-10-03
Movie Mine Own Executioner Patricia Milne 1947-11-22
Movie Wanted for Murder Anne Fielding 1946-06-17
Movie The Years Between Judy 1946-07-08
Movie Madonna of the Seven Moons Nesta Logan 1945-01-22
Movie A Place of One's Own Sarah 1945-03-20
Movie They Were Sisters Charlotte Lee 1945-07-02
Movie Two Thousand Women Nellie Skinner 1944-11-06