Freda Jackson
Freda Maud Jackson (born December 29, 1907 in Nottingham , England , † October 20, 1990 in Northampton , England) was a British actress .
life and career
Freda Jackson studied in her hometown at the University of Nottingham and made her stage debut in 1934 at the Northampton Repertory Theater. A long and successful stage career followed.
Her first film role she took in 1938 on the side of Niall MacGinnis in the television film Mountains O'Moore . In the following decades, she often played almost masculine, mostly grumpy and sometimes even malicious women in film and television. For example, she played a single peasant woman in Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale and the role of "Mistress Quickly" in the Oscar-winning Shakespeare film adaptation of Henry V by and with Laurence Olivier . Jackson has appeared in front of the camera several times for Charles Dickens film adaptations , for example as the cold-hearted Mrs. Joe Gargary in David Lean's Mysterious Inheritance (1946) and as a bloodthirsty revolutionary in Two Cities (1958) alongside Dirk Bogarde . Her major supporting role as a servant of a Barnoess in the horror film Dracula and his Brides (1960) with Peter Cushing was also concise . Most recently she was in front of the camera in 1981 for the fantasy film Clash of the Titans , in which she played one of the three Graien sisters.
During her early days at the Northampton Repertory Theater, she was said to have a love affair with the young Errol Flynn . From 1937 until her death she was married to the artist Henry Bird (1909–2000), their son Julian became a psychiatrist.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: Mountains O'Mourne
- 1944: A Canterbury Tale
- 1944: Heinrich V (Henry V)
- 1946: Impatience of the Heart (Beware of Pity)
- 1946: Great Expectations (Great Exspectations)
- 1951: The perpetrator drives north (Mr. Denning Drives North)
- 1954: Four fall by the wayside (The Good Die Young)
- 1956 Bhowani Junction (Bhowani Junction)
- 1957: The Flesh Is Weak
- 1958: Two cities (A Tale of Two Cities)
- 1960: Dracula and his brides (The Brides of Dracula)
- 1961: Shadow of a cat (The Shadow of the Cat)
- 1961: Attempt to Kill
- 1963: Tom Jones - Between Bed and Gallows (Tom Jones)
- 1965: The horror at Witley Castle (Die, Monster, Die!)
- 1967: Mini Skirt and Crown Jewels (The Jokers)
- 1969: Gwangi's Revenge (The Valley of Gwangi)
- 1970: Randall & Hopkirk - Detective agency with a ghost (TV series, 1 episode)
- 1979–1980: The Old Curiosity Shop (TV miniseries, 3 episodes)
- 1981: Clash of the Titans (Clash of the Titans)
literature
- International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 140
Web links
- Freda Jackson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freda Jackson | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Ian Mayes: Henry Bird. May 11, 2000, accessed October 10, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jackson, Freda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jackson, Freda Maud (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nottingham , England , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1990 |
| Place of death | Northampton , England, UK |