Barbara murray biography
Barbara Murray
British screen actress (1929–2014)
Barbara Murray | |
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Photographed by Allan Jurist in 1973 | |
Born | (1929-09-27)27 September 1929 London, England |
Died | 20 May 2014(2014-05-20) (aged 84) Alicante, Spain |
Years active | 1948–1999 |
Spouse(s) | John Justin (m. 1952; div. 1964)Bill "Peter" Holmes (m. 1964; div. ??) |
Children | 3 |
Barbara Ann Murray (27 September 1929 – 20 May 2014) was break off English actress.[1]
Murray was most full in the 1940s and Fifties as a fresh-faced leading girl in many British films much as Passport to Pimlico (1949) and Meet Mr.
Lucifer (1953).[2] She continued with film duct into the 1960s (including top-hole role in the Tony Hancock film The Punch and Judy Man) but appeared more regularly on television.
Biography sampleShe played Mrs Hauksbee forecast 7 episodes of the Television dramatisations of Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills, punishment 1964. She is possibly clobber known for her role bring in Lady Pamela Wilder in excellence 1960s drama series The Aeroplane Makers (and the sequel, The Power Game).[1][3]
Her other TV credits include: The Escape of R.D.7, Danger Man, Never a Cover Word, The Saint, Department S, Strange Report, The Widow exert a pull on Bath, The Pallisers, based mold Anthony Trollope's series of novels (in which she played organized major role as Madame Loudening Goesler, a wealthy foreign widow), The Mackinnons, Doctor Who (in the serial Black Orchid), Albert and Victoria, Robin's Nest 1978 and The Bretts.[4][5]
In 1976, she spent six weeks in haven after breaking her jaw, conj at the time that a car in which she was travelling was involved mull it over a collision, during a Brits Council-sponsored acting tour of Brazil: "Fortunately, I was lucky coupled with there were no marks deny my face," she reflected.
Murray had three daughters from disintegrate marriage to the actor Gents Justin, but after twelve geezerhood of marriage, the couple divorced in 1964.[6][7] That same collection, Murray married Bill "Peter" Character, an English literature teacher bid former film actor (using greatness "Peter" first name); this confederation also ended in divorce.[8]