Josephine Wilson

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Josephine Wilson also Lady Miles (born July 5, 1904 in Bromley , † November 7, 1990 in London ) was a British actress with character roles in theater, film and television. She played various roles in British cinema productions from the 1930s to the 1950s. Including in films like A Lady Disappears , Four Feathers , Childhood Love - Three Days Vacation ... or The End of an Affair .

life and career

Josephine Wilson's biography, born in Bromley, London in 1904, was closely intertwined with the career of her husband, the English character actor Lord Bernard Miles . When she married Miles in 1931, he had just made his professional stage debut the year before. Together, the two played in numerous theater performances well into the 1950s, when the initially privately run Mermaid Theater was later founded in 1959 in London to become a public theater.

Josephine Wilson started her film career in 1938 with a role in Victor Saville's romantic drama South Riding . In the same year she was cast by the director Alfred Hitchcock in his famous crime comedy A Lady Disappears in the supporting role of Madame Kummer. Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave played the leading roles . In Norman Walker's adventure film Life of St. Paul , she played the leading female role alongside partner Neal Arden. In the early 1940s she impersonated roles on the screen in various productions, including 1943 in John Harlow's thriller The Dark Tower in the ensemble of actors around Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford , David Farrar , Herbert Lom and William Hartnell . In the comedy Jugendliebe - Drei Tage Urlaub ... by director Harold French , she was seen in the role of Mary Jarrow in 1946. She starred in the 1950 drama Chance of a Lifetime, directed by her husband Bernard Miles . Josephine Wilson had her last cinema appearance in 1955 in Edward Dmytryk's romantic drama The End of an Affair in the leading roles with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson .

With Bernard Miles, Josephine Wilson had the daughter Sally Miles (1933-1986), who also became an actress. Wilson's commitment to culture and research is considered exemplary in England. Among other things, she is considered a co-founder of the Molecule Club. Josephine Wilson died in London on November 7, 1990 at the age of 86.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

  • 1938: South Riding
  • 1938: A Lady Vanishes (The Lady Vanishes)
  • 1938: Life of St. Paul
  • 1939: Four Feathers (The Four Feathers)
  • 1942: Those Kids from Town
  • 1942: Uncensored
  • 1943: We Dive at Dawn
  • 1943: The Adventures of Tartu
  • 1943: The Dark Tower
  • 1946: childhood love - three days of vacation ... (Quiet Weekend)
  • 1950: Chance of a Lifetime
  • 1955: The End of the Affair (The End of the Affair)

watch TV

  • 1938: The Ascent of F6
  • 1939: Edna's Fruit Hat
  • 1939: Shall We Join the Ladies?
  • 1939: The Rising Sun

literature

  • Josephine Wilson. In: Kathleen Riley: Nigel Hawthorne on Stage. , University of Hertfordshire Press, 2000, p. 226.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josephine Wilson. In: Christopher Hibbert, Ben Weinreb, John & Julia Keay: The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition). , Pan Macmillan (2011), 543.
  2. ↑ Josephine Wilson. In: Encyclopædia Britannica
  3. ↑ Josephine Wilson. In: Donald Gould: New Scientist, Volume 129 - Forum: The life and stage of Josephine Wilson - One of the founders of the Molecule Club. , New Science Publications, February 09, 1991.
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Josephine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress in theater, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromley , England
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1990
Place of death London , England