Margaret Lockwood

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Margaret Lockwood (actually Margaret Mary Lockwood Day ) (born September 15, 1916 in Karachi , † July 15, 1990 in Kensington , London ) was a British actress .

Career

Lockwood was born in British India as the daughter of an English railway administrator . She returned to Great Britain with her mother and brother as a child after her parents divorced. She made her stage debut at the age of twelve as a fairy in a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . She was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London , where she was discovered by a talent scout. In 1935 she made her debut in the British film adaptation of the novel Lorna Doone and quickly rose to become a popular star in national cinema. In 1938 Lockwood was in Alfred Hitchcock's A Lady Disappears at the side of Michael Redgrave and got a contract with 20th Century Fox and in 1939 shot Rulers of the Sea with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Hollywood . and Susanna of the Mounties with Shirley Temple . Unsatisfied with the role offers in the USA, Lockwood returned to England immediately after the start of the war.

1943 Lockwood was on the side of James Mason with The Man in Gray , a dark melodrama from the time of Queen Victoria, the biggest female star of the war years, even before Anna Neagle . Mason, a degenerate nobleman, seduced Lockwood, drove her to betray her best friend, Phyllis Calvert , and ended up whipping her to death with a riding crop in a fit of madness. The film's overwhelming financial success established the genre of Gainsborough Gothic , films that presented the adventurous fate of women against a historical backdrop. Lockwood had her greatest success with The Wicked Lady , who in 1945 showed her as a high-born lady of better society by day and ruthless murderer and highwayman by night, whose sexual greed ultimately leads to her downfall. Alongside Madonna of the Seven Moons with Phyllis Calvert, the flick was one of the UK's biggest box office hits to date. In the mid-1950s, Lockwood's film career came to an end and she ended her career in 1955 with the thriller Cast a Dark Shadow . From 1971 to 1974 Lockwood starred in the television series Justice .

In 1980 Lockwood was named Commander of the British Empire . Her daughter Julia Lockwood is also an actress.

Filmography

  • 1934: Lorna Doone
  • 1935: Honors Easy
  • 1935: Man of the Moment
  • 1935: Midshipman Easy
  • 1935: Some Day
  • 1935: The Case of Gabriel Perry
  • 1936: Irish for Luck
  • 1936: Jury's Evidence
  • 1936: The Amateur Gentleman
  • 1936: The Beloved Vagabond
  • 1937: Doctor Syn
  • 1937: Melody and Romance
  • 1937: The Street Singer
  • 1937: Who's Your Lady Friend?
  • 1938: Bank Holiday
  • 1938: A Lady Vanishes (The Lady Vanishes)
  • 1938: To the Victor
  • 1939: A Girl Must Live
  • 1939: Lord of the seas (Rulers of the Sea)
  • 1939: Miss Winnetou (Susannah of the Mounties)
  • 1940: The Stars Look Down (The Stars Look Down)
  • 1940: Night Train to Munich
  • 1940: The Girl in the News
  • 1941: Quiet Wedding
  • 1943: Alibi
  • 1943: The Man in Gray (The Man in Gray)
  • 1943: The Randolph Family
  • 1944: Give Us the Moon
  • 1944: Cornwall Rhapsody (Love Story)
  • 1945: Something Was Left Behind (A Place of One's Own)
  • 1945: Music Pirates (I'll Be Your Sweetheart)
  • 1945: The Woman without a Heart (The Wicked Lady)
  • 1946: Bedelia (Bedelia)
  • 1947: The Copper Mountain (Hungry Hill)
  • 1947: Symbol of Luck (The White Unicorn)
  • 1947: Gypsy blood (Jassy)
  • 1948: It started in Rio (Look Before You Love)
  • 1949: Great days (Cardboard Cavalier)
  • 1949: The Rival (Madness of the Heart)
  • 1950: Highly Dangerous
  • 1952: Trent's Last Case
  • 1954: Anna of Singapore (Laughing Anne)
  • 1954: Trouble with his lordship (Trouble in the Glen)
  • 1955: Demon of Women (Cast a Dark Shadow)
  • 1976: Cinderella's silver shoe (The Slipper and the Rose)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannic: Margaret Lockwood - British actress. In: britannica.com. September 15, 1916, accessed January 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lockwood, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lockwood Day, Margaret Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1990
Place of death Kensington