Phyllis Calvert
Phyllis Calvert (born February 18, 1915 in London , England , † October 8, 2002 in London, England; actually Phyllis Bickle ) was a British film actress .
life and work
Phyllis Calvert was active on stage as an actress from a young age and began to take on first film roles from 1939. She became a star practically overnight as the innocently persecuted second heroine in The Man in Gray , in which she was tortured as a victim of the sadistic James Mason . In the end, Mason also whipped Margaret Lockwood to death with a riding crop , while Calvert and Stewart Granger find happiness. All four quickly rose to become the most popular movie names of the last years of the war, and thanks to the success of Fanny By Gaslight from the following year, Calvert even rivaled Lockwood for the highest-grossing female cinema star in England. She had her greatest financial success in 1945 with Madonna of the Seven Moons , who showed Calvert as a woman with a split personality, who was a kind-hearted wife during the day and the amoral hostess in a gang of thugs at night. Stewart Granger was her partner again. Calvert's career declined rapidly towards the end of the decade and she found herself in supporting roles by the early 1950s. In 1958 she played the older sister of Ingrid Bergman in the film adaptation of the stage hit Kind Sir , which was released under the title Indiscreet .
In later years Phyllis Calvert was often seen on television.
Filmography (selection)
- 1941: Kipps - novel of a simple person ( Kipps )
- 1942: The Young Mr. Pitt
- 1943: The Man in Gray ( The Man in Gray )
- 1944: Gaslight and Shadow ( Fanny by Gaslight )
- 1944: Madonna of the Seven Moons ( Madonna of the Seven Moons )
- 1945: Three Marriages ( They Were Sisters )
- 1948: My Own True Love
- 1948: Emergency landing ( Broken Journey )
- 1949: The Golden Madonna
- 1951: The perpetrator drives north ( Mr. Denning Drives North )
- 1952: Mandy
- 1953: The Net
- 1958: Indiscreet ( Indiscreet )
- 1958: The privacy ( The Young and the Guilty )
- 1960: Oscar Wilde
- 1964: The Battle of the Villa Fiorita ( The Battle of the Villa Fiorita )
- 1968: Vicious circle Y ( Twisted Nerve )
- 1969: Die Krücke ( The Walking Stick )
- 1969: Oh! What a lovely war
- 1997: Mrs. Dalloway
Web links
- Phyllis Calvert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- short biography
- short biography
- Pictures by Phyllis Calvert In: Virtual History
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Calvert, Phyllis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bickle, Phyllis (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British film actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2002 |
Place of death | London |