Dandy Nichols

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Dandy Nichols (born May 21, 1907 in London , England as Daisy Sander ; † February 6, 1986 there ) was a British actress .

life and career

Dandy Nichols gained her first acting experience in a lay group while at the same time working as a secretary to take professional acting lessons. She developed into a respected stage actress who played at the Royal Court Theater and on Broadway in New York, among others . In 1970 she starred in the world premiere of David Storey's award-winning play Home, alongside John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson .

Since the late 1940s, Nichols has also worked as a supporting actress in British film and television, she had two of her first film roles under the direction of Carol Reed . The small, rather misshapen-looking character actress specialized above all in portraying wives, housekeepers and cleaning women from the British middle class. Her better-known film roles include that of a medieval servant in the Hollywood film The Vikings (1958) alongside Kirk Douglas , Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, and that of a penniless noblewoman in Maximilian Schell's directorial debut First Love (1970) based on the novel of the same name by Ivan Turgenew .

She became best known through the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , in which she, as the likeable but often naive housewife Else Garnett , has to suffer from her misogynistic husband. She thus formed the model for Jean Stapleton in the US version All in the Family and Elisabeth Wiedemann and Helga Feddersen in Ein Herz und ein Seele , the German version of Till Death Us Do Part . After the original series was discontinued in 1975, the sequels Till Death ... 1981 and In Sickness and Health from 1985 emerged. Dandy Nichols died shortly after the end of the first season at the age of 78 of pneumonia and heart problems, after which the producers decided to let her character Else also die serial death.

Daisy Nichols was married to newspaper editor Stephen Baguley Waters from 1942 to 1955, but the marriage was divorced because of his infidelity.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BFI Screenonline: Nichols, Dandy (1907-1986) Biography. Accessed April 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dandy Nichols | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nichols, dandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sander, Daisy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1986
Place of death London , England , UK