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Dulcie Gray‌

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Dulcie Gray

Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Dulcie Gray

Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1919-11-20

Popularity

star1.7

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist. Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Affair in 1950 and the Battle of Britain movie Angels One Five in 1952. Her performance as the luckless waitress Rose in the original stage production of Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre in 1944 led to Gray being offered a contract with Gainsborough Pictures. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh. During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90). Gray and Denison made their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, appearing as Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham from 1 May 1996 until 26 January 1997. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green. In 1999, the year after her husband's death, she played Mrs Wilberforce in an 18-city tour of UK theatres in a stage adaptation of the 1955 Ealing classic film, The Ladykillers. She last appeared on screen in 2000 in an episode of the BBC drama series Doctors. Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.

Movie Credits

Angels One Five

Angels One Five‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

A Place of One's Own

A Place of One's Own‌
star5.4
calendar 1945

Wanted for Murder

Wanted for Murder‌
star6.2
calendar 1946

Mine Own Executioner

Mine Own Executioner‌
star7.0
calendar 1947

The Years Between

The Years Between‌
star6.2
calendar 1946

A Man Could Get Killed

A Man Could Get Killed‌
star3.8
calendar 1966

A Man About the House

A Man About the House‌
star6.9
calendar 1947

The Glass Mountain

The Glass Mountain‌
star6.0
calendar 1949

The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair‌
star6.7
calendar 1951

My Brother Jonathan

My Brother Jonathan‌
star7.0
calendar 1948

Unexpectedly Vacant

Unexpectedly Vacant‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

Victory Wedding

Victory Wedding‌
star0.0
calendar 1944

There Was a Young Lady

There Was a Young Lady‌
star6.0
calendar 1953

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest‌
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calendar 1999

They Were Sisters

They Were Sisters‌
star5.6
calendar 1945

Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women‌
star6.8
calendar 1944

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons‌
star6.3
calendar 1945

Life After Death

Life After Death‌
star0.0
calendar 1982

Tv Credits

Howards' Way

Howards' Way‌
star5.6
calendar 1985

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt‌
star8.0
calendar 1989

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey‌
star7.1
calendar 1975

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime‌
star6.1
calendar 1983

Crown Court

Crown Court‌
star5.0
calendar 1972

Howards' Way

Howards' Way‌
star5.6
calendar 1985