Hillary Brooke
Hillary Brooke (born September 3, 1914 in Astoria , New York City , † May 25, 1999 in Bonsall , California ) was an American actress .
Life
Hillary Brooke was born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson in New York. She began her career as a model and came into the film business in the late 1930s, where she initially only took on minor supporting roles. She appeared three times in the Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone , on which her rise from an uncredited role in The Voice of Terror (1942) to a supporting role in Ghosts in the Castle (1943) to a leading role as The woman in green (1945) can be traced. She made other well-known films with The Road to Utopia (1946) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
Up to and including 1960 she was seen in more than 100 productions, and since the early 1950s increasingly in television productions. So she appeared regularly in the first season of the Abbott and Costello show from 1952 to 1953. She had previously played in two films with the two comedians. She also had regular appearances in the series My Little Margie . In the course of her film career, despite her American origins, she often played elegant English women, which was due to the fact that she had spent a year in England in the 1930s and was able to convincingly imitate the British accent. In 1960, the year of her last role on television, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
Brooke was married twice, from 1941 to 1948 to Jack Voglin, then from 1960 until his death to MGM functionary Raymond A. Klune. They had a son named Donald and an adopted daughter named Carol. Hillary Brooke died at the age of 84.
Filmography (selection)
- 1939: Wizard of Love (Eternally Yours)
- 1940: New Moon
- 1940: The Night Before the Wedding (The Philadelphia Story)
- 1941: Doctor and Demon (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
- 1941: The Two-Faced Woman
- 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
- 1942: Ship ahoy! (Ship ahoy!)
- 1942: The Voice of Terror (Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror)
- 1942: Wake Island
- 1943: Ghosts in the Castle (Sherlock Holmes Faces Death)
- 1943: The Orphan of Lowood (Jane Eyre)
- 1944: Ministry of Fear (Ministry of Fear)
- 1944: A Woman's Dreams (Lady in the Dark)
- 1945: With the Eyes of Love (The Enchatted Cottage)
- 1945: The Woman in Green (The Woman in Green)
- 1946: The Road to Utopia (Road to Utopia)
- 1946: The Strange Woman
- 1946: With brush and sword (Monsieur Beaucaire)
- 1946: Strange Impersonation
- 1948: That crazy Mr. Johns! (The Fuller Brush Man)
- 1949: Crazy Africa (Africa Screams)
- 1951: Lost Continent
- 1952: Abbott and Costello as unwilling pirates (Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd)
- 1952–1953: The Abbott and Costello Show (TV series, 23 episodes)
- 1952–1955: My Little Margie (TV series, 24 episodes)
- 1953: Invasion from Mars (Invaders from Mars)
- 1953: The Maze
- 1956: The Man Who Knew Too Much (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
- 1957: Flames over the Silbersee (Spoilers in the Forest)
Web links
- Hillary Brooke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hillary Brooke in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Hillary Brooke in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hillary Brooke, 84; Actress in Movies . ( nytimes.com [accessed September 13, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brooke, Hillary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Astoria , New York City , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1999 |
| Place of death | Bonsall , California , United States |