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Linden Travers
Born
Florence Lindon Travers

(1913-05-27)27 May 1913
Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham, England
Died23 October 2001(2001-10-23) (aged 88)
St Ives, Cornwall, England
OccupationActress
Years active1935–60
Spouse(s)Guy Leon (?–?; divorced; 1 child)
James Holman (1948–74; his death; 2 children)

Florence Lindon Travers,[1] known professionally as Linden Travers (27 May 1913 – 23 October 2001),[1] was a British actress.[2]

Life and career

Travers was born in County Durham, England, the daughter of Florence (née Wheatley) and William Halton Lindon Travers.[3] The elder sister of Bill Travers,[3] she attended La Sagesse School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.[1] She made her first stage appearance at the Newcastle Playhouse in 1933.[1] She made her West End debut the following year in Ivor Novello's Murder in Mayfair, and appeared in her first film, Children of the Fog in 1935.[1][4]

She played a substantial role in Carol Reed’s Bank Holiday (1938).[5] One of her most widely seen performances was as "Mrs." Todhunter in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938).[6] She also appeared in The Stars Look Down (1940) The Ghost Train (1941), and Quartet (1948).[2]

Her career consisted mainly of supporting roles, but she also played occasional lead roles, such as Miss Blandish in both the well received 1942 stage adaptation and widely panned 1948 film version of James Hadley Chase's 1939 novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish.[7][8]

She largely retired in 1948, after her second marriage.[1] In 1999, she took part in the television programme Reputations: Hitch: Alfred the Great, paying tribute to the man who had directed her sixty years earlier.[9][10]

Death

She died in Cornwall, aged 88, in 2001.[2] Her daughter Susan Travers also became an actress.[11][12]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Ronald Bergan (2 November 2001). "Obituary: Linden Travers". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Linden Travers". BFI. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Travers, William Inglis Lindon [Bill] (1922–1994)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55882. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ "Linden Travers - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
  5. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Bank Holiday (1938) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  6. ^ "Linden Travers | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos". AllMovie.
  7. ^ Hunter, Jefferson (5 April 2010). English Filming, English Writing. Indiana University Press. pp. 105–. ISBN 9780253004147. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  8. ^ Phillips, Gene D. (26 September 2014). Gangsters and G-Men on Screen: Crime Cinema Then and Now. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 25–. ISBN 9781442230767. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  9. ^ "Hitch Part One Alfred the Great (1999)". BFI.
  10. ^ "Reputations: Hitch: Alfred the Great: Part 1". May 30, 1999. p. 72 – via BBC Genome.
  11. ^ "Susan Travers". BFI.
  12. ^ "Susan Travers; Linden Travers - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
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