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Vivien Merchant‌

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calendar1929-07-22

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Vivien Merchant

Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

Vivien Merchant

Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1929-07-22

Popularity

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Vivien Merchant (born Ada Thompson 22 July 1929 – 3 October 1982) was a British actress. She performed in many stage productions and several films, including Alfie (1966) and Frenzy (1972). Her performance in Alfie earned her Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the first wife of the playwright Harold Pinter, whom she met when working as a repertory actress and married in 1956. Their son, Daniel, was born in 1958. Having performed the role of Rose in a production of his first play, The Room (1957) at the Hampstead Theatre in 1960, she also appeared in many of Pinter's subsequent works, including as Ruth in The Homecoming (1964) on stage (1965) and screen (The Homecoming, 1973). The last of his plays in which she performed was Old Times (1971) as Anna. Their marriage began disintegrating in the mid-1960s. From 1962 to 1969, Harold Pinter had a clandestine affair with Joan Bakewell, which informs Pinter's play Betrayal and his film adaptation, also called Betrayal. In 1975 Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March. At first, Merchant took it very well, saying positive things about Fraser, according to her friend artist Guy Vaesen (as cited by Billington); but, Vaesen recalled, after "a female friend of Vivien's trotted round to her house and poisoned her mind against Antonia ... Life in Hanover Terrace [where the Pinters then lived] gradually became impossible". Pinter left, and Vivien Merchant filed for divorce and gave interviews to the tabloid press, expressing her distress.The Frasers' divorce became final in 1977 and the Pinters' in 1980. In 1980 Pinter married Antonia Fraser. Vivien Merchant never overcame her grief and bitterness at losing Pinter, dying at the age of 53 on 3 October 1982, from acute alcoholism Description above from the Wikipedia article Vivien Merchant ,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movie Credits

Frenzy

Frenzy‌
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calendar 1972

A Month in the Country

A Month in the Country‌
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calendar 1966

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask‌
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calendar 1977

The Offence

The Offence‌
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calendar 1973

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood‌
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calendar 1972

Alfie

Alfie‌
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calendar 1966

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great‌
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calendar 1969

Accident

Accident‌
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calendar 1967

The Homecoming

The Homecoming‌
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calendar 1973

The Lover

The Lover‌
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calendar 1963

Tea Party

Tea Party‌
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calendar 1965

The Maids

The Maids‌
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calendar 1975

Funeral Games

Funeral Games‌
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calendar 1968

The Common

The Common‌
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calendar 1973

A Night Out

A Night Out‌
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calendar 1960

A War of Children

A War of Children‌
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calendar 1972

Night School

Night School‌
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calendar 1960

The Collection

The Collection‌
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Opus

Opus‌
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calendar 1967

Tv Credits

Studio 4

Studio 4‌
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calendar 1962

Studio Four

Studio Four‌
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calendar 1962

Secret Army

Secret Army‌
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calendar 1977

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities‌
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calendar 1980

NBC Experiment in Television

NBC Experiment in Television‌
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calendar 1967