Alison Leggatt
| Alison Leggatt | |
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| Born | Alison Joy Leggatt February 7, 1904 |
| Died | July 15, 1990 (aged 86) London |
Alison Leggatt (7 February 1904 - 15 July 1990) was an English character actress.
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[edit] Career
Born as Alison Joy Leggatt in the Kensington district of London, Leggatt spent the early part of her career primarily on the stage. Her first major film credit was as Aunt Sylvia in This Happy Breed (1944), Noel Coward's homage to the British working class. She was known for playing a variety of disapproving in-laws, motherly landladies, nosy neighbours and helpful housekeepers. She played opposite Petula Clark three times, in Here Come the Huggetts (1948), The Card (1952), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).
In the 1967 version of "Far from the Madding Crowd" she played Mrs Hurst.
Her final screen appearance was in the 1976 Sherlock Holmes film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.
Leggatt's television credits include the 1975 mini-series Edward the Seventh, in which she portrayed the Duchess of Kent.
[edit] Death
Alison Leggatt died of natural causes in London, aged 86.
[edit] Additional selected filmography
- This Happy Breed (1944)
- Waterloo Road (1945)
- Marry Me (1949)
- A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)
- The Miniver Story (1950)
- Noose for a Lady (1953)
- Touch and Go (1955)
- A Woman Possessed (1958)
- Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
- The Day of the Triffids (1963)
- Nothing But the Best (1964)
- Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
