Cast & creator
Phyllis Calvert
Best known for Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Tales of the Unexpected
Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress. Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she trained at the Margaret Morris School of Dancing and performed from the age of ten, gaining her first film role at the age of 12, in The Arcadians (1927), also known as The Land of Heart's Desire. Calvert performed in repertory theatre and in several films, before making her London stage debut in A Woman's Privilege in 1939. During the following decade, she starred in many romances, including Fanny by Gaslight, with James Mason and Stewart Granger, and My Own True Love, becoming one of Britain's highest paid stars. However, three Hollywood studios failed to pay her what she asked. She first found success in the film adaptation of H. G. Wells' Kipps (1941), but it was The Man in Grey (1943) that confirmed her status. She acted in over 40 films, her later films include Oh! What a Lovely War and The Walking Stick. Calvert had already appeared on television, playing Mrs. March in the 1958 serials Little Women and Good Wives (both adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women), as well as individual episodes of several other programmes, when, in 1970, she landed the part of an agony aunt with problems of her own in Kate. She made TV appearances in programmes such as Crown Court, Ladykillers, Tales of the Unexpected, Boon, After Henry and The Line Grove Story. She was married to the actor and antiquarian bookseller Peter Murray Hill, with whom she had two children, Ann Auriol (born 1943) and Piers Auriol (born 1954). She died in London in 2002, from natural causes, aged 87.
Also known as: Филлис Калверт, Phyllis Hannah Murray-Hill
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film credits
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television credits
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1940–1997 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (63)
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Midsomer Murders
Alice Bly
1997
Casualty
Mary
1986
Tales of the Unexpected
Mabel Ince
1979
Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb
1984
ITV Playhouse
Mrs Radcliffe
1967
Performance
Woman
1991
The House of Eliott
Mrs Gurney
1991
Lady Killers
Rosaline Fox
1980Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!
Tatiana
1957Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Agnes Garrideb
1994
Victoria Wood
Hilary
1989
After Henry
Auntie Lilian
1988
Armchair Theatre
Esther Ross
1956
Cover Her Face
Eleanor Maxie
1985
A Killing on the Exchange
Alison Tyndall
1987
Oh! What a Lovely War
Lady Dorothy Haig
1969
All Passion Spent
Carrie
1986
Twisted Nerve
Enid Durnley
1968
The Man in Grey
Clarissa Richmond Rohan / Clarissa Rohan
1943
Indiscreet
Mrs. Margaret Munson
1958
The Woman He Loved
Queen Mary
1988
The Walking Stick
Erica Dainton
1970
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Margot
1965
Mrs. Dalloway
Aunt Helena
1997Kate
Kate Graham
1970
Child in the House
Evelyn Acheson
1956
Time Out of Mind
Kate Fernald
1947
Appointment with Danger
Sister Augustine
1950
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Maddalena Labardi
1945
Jute City
Lady Muircross
1991
Mr. Denning Drives North
Kay Denning
1951
Across the Lake
Lady Dolly Campbell
1988
The Young Mr. Pitt
Eleanor Eden
1942
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Betty Forsythe
1940
Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny
1944
They Came by Night
Sally
1940
Let George Do It!
Mary Wilson
1940
My Own True Love
Joan Clews
1948
Bed
Couple Woman
1995
A Month in the Country
Anna
1985
The Death of the Heart
Mrs. Heccomb
1987
Mandy
Christine Garland
1952
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Mrs. Wilkinson
1941
Kipps
Ann Pornick (adult)
1941
The Woman with No Name
Yvonne Winter
1950
The Net
Lydia Heathley
1953
It's Never Too Late
Laura Hammond
1956
Men of Two Worlds
Dr. Caroline Munro
1946
They Were Sisters
Lucy Moore
1945
The Magic Bow
Jeanne
1946Two Days to Live
Joyce
1940All Passion Spent
Carrie
1986
Uncensored
Julie Lanvin
1942
The Postman
1952
Two Thousand Women
Freda Thompson
1944
The Young and the Guilty
Gladys Connor
1958
The Root of All Evil
Jeckie Farnish
1947
Broken Journey
Mary Johnstone
1948
Oscar Wilde
Constance Wilde
1960Neutral Port
Helen Carter
1940
The Golden Madonna
Patricia Chandler
1949
A Lady Mislaid
Esther Wallace
1958