Elizabeth Sellars

Elizabeth Sellars
Born	Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (1921-05-06)6 May 1921 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died	30 December 2019(2019-12-30) (aged 98) Paris, France
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949–1990
Spouse	Francis Austin Henley ​ ​ (m. 1960; died 2009)​

Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars (6 May 1921 – 30 December 2019) was a Scottish actress.

Biography

Sellars was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She appeared on the stage from the age of 15, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She also studied law for five years in England.

She made her first London appearance in 1946 in The Brothers Karamazov, and later appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Elizabeth in Richard III, Helen in Troilus and Cressida, Gertrude in Hamlet and Hermione in The Winter's Tale. She played opposite Valentine Dyall, Louise Hampton and Anthony Ireland in The Other Side, at the Comedy Theatre, London, from 8th August until 7th September 1946.

Sellars entered films with Floodtide (1949). She appeared in a string of British films in the 1950s and 1960s, and also a few Hollywood films, usually in secondary roles, including The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Désirée (1954), Prince of Players (1955), The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960), 55 Days at Peking (1963) and The Chalk Garden (1964). She was the main female lead in a number of films, including The Long Memory (1953), The Last Man to Hang? (1956), Never Let Go (1960) and The Webster Boy (1962). She also appeared frequently on television, most notably in A Voyage Round My Father (1982) with Laurence Olivier.

Personal life

On 8 September 1960, Sellars married Francis Austin Henley in Stow-on-the-Wold, England. They remained together until his death on 31 January 2009.

Death

Sellars died in France on 30 December 2019 at the age of 98.

Partial filmography

• Floodtide (1949) as Judy
• Madeleine (1950) as Christina Hackett
• Guilt Is My Shadow (1950) as Linda
• Cloudburst (1951) as Carol Graham
• Night Was Our Friend (1951) as Sally Raynor
• Hunted (1952) as Magda Lloyd
• The Gentle Gunman (1952) as Maureen Fagan
• The Long Memory (1953) as Fay Lowther
• The Broken Horseshoe (1953) as Della Freeman
• Recoil (1953) as Jean Talbot
• Three's Company (1953) as Diane Graham (segment "The Surgeon's Story")
• Forbidden Cargo (1954) as Rita Compton
• The Barefoot Contessa (1954) as Jerry Dawes
• Désirée (1954) as Julie Clary, Désirée's Sister
• Prince of Players (1955) as Asia Booth
• Three Cases of Murder (1955) as Elizabeth ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment)
• The Last Man to Hang? (1956) as Daphne Strood
• The Man in the Sky (1957) as Mary Mitchell
• The Shiralee (1957) as Marge
• Law and Disorder (1958) as Gina Laselle
• Jet Storm (1959) as Inez Barrington
• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960) as Iris Muldoon
• Never Let Go (1960) as Anne Cummings
• The Webster Boy (1962) as Margaret Webster
• 55 Days at Peking (1963) as Lady Sarah Robertson
• The Chalk Garden (1964) as Olivia
• The Mummy's Shroud (1967) as Barbara Preston
• The Hireling (1973) as Lady Franklin's mother
• A Voyage Round My Father (1982, TV Movie) as Mother
• Farrington (1987, TV Series) as Delia Murdock
• A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990, TV Movie) as Countess Kissler

External links

• Elizabeth Sellars at IMDb