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Margaret Lockwood‌

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Female

Birthday

calendar1916-09-15

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Margaret Lockwood

Karachi, British India [now Pakistan]

Margaret Lockwood

Karachi, British India [now Pakistan]

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1916-09-15

Popularity

star5.4

Biography

Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990) was an English actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough movie, The Wicked Lady. Margaret Mary Lockwood Day was born in Karachi, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan), to an English administrator of a railway company and his Scottish wife. Lockwood's family returned to the United Kingdom when she was a child, along with her brother. She attended Sydenham High School for girls, and a ladies school in Kensington, London. She began studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the Holborn Empire, where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In December of the following year, she appeared at the Scala Theatre in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood. In 1932, she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Cavalcade. Lockwood then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was seen by a talent scout and signed to a contract. In June 1934, she played Myrtle in House on Fire at the Queen's Theatre, and on 22 August 1934 appeared as Margaret Hamilton in Gertrude Jenning's play Family Affairs when it premiered at the Ambassadors Theatre; Helene Ferber in Repayment at the Arts Theatre in January 1936; Trixie Drew in Henry Bernard's play Miss Smith at the Duke of York's Theatre in July 1936; and back at the Queen's in July 1937 as Ann Harlow in Ann's Lapse. Lockwood entered films in 1934, and in 1935 she appeared in the film version of Lorna Doone. In 1938 she starred in her most successful film, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, in which she first appeared with Michael Redgrave. In 1940, she played the role of Jenny Sunley, the self-centered, frivolous wife of Michael Redgrave's character in The Stars Look Down. In the early 1940s, Lockwood changed her on-screen image to play villainesses in both contemporary and period films, becoming the most successful actress in British films during that period. Her greatest success was in the title role in The Wicked Lady (1945), a film which was controversial in its day and brought her considerable publicity. In 1946 Lockwood gained the Daily Mail National Film Awards First Prize for most popular British film actress. She made a return to the stage in a record-breaking national tour of Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1949, and also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951, and the title role in Peter Pan in 1949, 1950, and 1957 (the latter with her daughter as Wendy). Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1965/66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley), Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick (1970), Relative Values (Noel Coward revival, 1973), and the thrillers Spider's Web (1955, written for her by Agatha Christie), Signpost to Murder (1962), and Double Edge (1975). In 1969, she starred as barrister Julia Stanford in the TV play, Justice is a Woman. This inspired the Yorkshire Television series, Justice, which ran for three seasons (39 episodes) from 1971 to 1974, and featured her real-life partner, John Stone, as fictional boyfriend, Dr Ian Moody. Lockwood's role as the feisty Harriet Peterson won her Best Actress Awards from the TV Times (1971) and The Sun (1973). Her last professional appearance was as Queen Alexandra in Royce Ryton's stage play, Motherdear (Ambassadors Theatre, 1980). She was created a CBE in the New Year Honours of 1981. Margaret Lockwood had married and been divorced from Rupert Leon. She lived her final years in seclusion and died in the Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 73. She was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium. She was survived by her daughter, actress Julia Clark (née Margaret Julia Leon, born 1941).

Movie Credits

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes‌
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calendar 1938

Jury's Evidence

Jury's Evidence‌
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calendar 1936

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate

James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate‌
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calendar 1984

Spider's Web

Spider's Web‌
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calendar 1955

Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow‌
star6.3
calendar 1955

Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn‌
star6.6
calendar 1937

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady‌
star6.0
calendar 1945

Honours Easy

Honours Easy‌
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calendar 1935

Night Train to Munich

Night Train to Munich‌
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calendar 1940

A Place of One's Own

A Place of One's Own‌
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calendar 1945

The Man in Grey

The Man in Grey‌
star5.9
calendar 1943

Madness of the Heart

Madness of the Heart‌
star5.9
calendar 1949

The Stars Look Down

The Stars Look Down‌
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calendar 1940

Bank Holiday

Bank Holiday‌
star5.8
calendar 1938

The Slipper and the Rose

The Slipper and the Rose‌
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calendar 1976

Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties‌
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calendar 1939

Bedelia

Bedelia‌
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calendar 1946

Trent's Last Case

Trent's Last Case‌
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calendar 1952

Highly Dangerous

Highly Dangerous‌
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calendar 1950

Girl in the News

Girl in the News‌
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calendar 1940

Rulers of the Sea

Rulers of the Sea‌
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calendar 1939

Trouble in the Glen

Trouble in the Glen‌
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calendar 1954

Alibi

Alibi‌
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calendar 1942

Hungry Hill

Hungry Hill‌
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calendar 1947

Man of the Moment

Man of the Moment‌
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calendar 1935

Owd Bob

Owd Bob‌
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calendar 1938

Midshipman Easy

Midshipman Easy‌
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calendar 1935

Quiet Wedding

Quiet Wedding‌
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calendar 1941

Jassy

Jassy‌
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calendar 1947

Look Before You Love

Look Before You Love‌
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calendar 1948

The White Unicorn

The White Unicorn‌
star7.5
calendar 1947

Laughing Anne

Laughing Anne‌
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calendar 1953

Love Story

Love Story‌
star6.4
calendar 1944

Give Us the Moon

Give Us the Moon‌
star6.2
calendar 1944

Cardboard Cavalier

Cardboard Cavalier‌
star5.7
calendar 1949

The Beloved Vagabond

The Beloved Vagabond‌
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calendar 1936

The Street Singer

The Street Singer‌
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calendar 1937

The Amateur Gentleman

The Amateur Gentleman‌
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calendar 1936

Pygmalion

Pygmalion‌
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calendar 1948

A Girl Must Live

A Girl Must Live‌
star4.3
calendar 1939

Justice Is a Woman

Justice Is a Woman‌
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calendar 1969

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone‌
star5.8
calendar 1934

I'll Be Your Sweetheart

I'll Be Your Sweetheart‌
star5.0
calendar 1945

Dear Octopus

Dear Octopus‌
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calendar 1943

Someday

Someday‌
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calendar 1935

The Case of Gabriel Perry

The Case of Gabriel Perry‌
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calendar 1935

Tv Credits

The Flying Swan

The Flying Swan‌
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calendar 1965

The Royalty

The Royalty‌
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calendar 1957

Justice

Justice‌
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calendar 2011

Justice

Justice‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

The Human Jungle

The Human Jungle‌
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calendar 1963

Bambi Awards

Bambi Awards‌
star9.0
calendar 1948