Film and radio star of the 1940s who later found TV fame in the soap Howards' Way
Although as an actor in films of the 1940s she was best known in ladylike and thoroughly English rose types of role, Dulcie Gray, who has died aged 95, had a background and overall career that was more cosmopolitan and interesting than that might suggest. She was in some ways the more complex half of the successful marital and professional stage and film partnership of Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.
In The Glass Mountain (1949), in which a married composer loves an Italian girl who saved his life during the second world war, Gray, then one of the great stars of the British film industry, almost inevitably played the wronged but agonisingly understanding English wife. It was the sort of role for which she was most often chosen: the inconspicuous, quietly adoring woman able and...
Although as an actor in films of the 1940s she was best known in ladylike and thoroughly English rose types of role, Dulcie Gray, who has died aged 95, had a background and overall career that was more cosmopolitan and interesting than that might suggest. She was in some ways the more complex half of the successful marital and professional stage and film partnership of Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.
In The Glass Mountain (1949), in which a married composer loves an Italian girl who saved his life during the second world war, Gray, then one of the great stars of the British film industry, almost inevitably played the wronged but agonisingly understanding English wife. It was the sort of role for which she was most often chosen: the inconspicuous, quietly adoring woman able and...
- 11/17/2011
- by Dennis Barker
- The Guardian - Film News
Veteran British actress Dulcie Gray has passed away at the age of 92.
The star, most famous for her role in U.K. TV series Howards' Way, died at actors' residential home Denville Hall in London on Tuesday after a battle with bronchial pneumonia.
Gray started her career in 1940s melodramas for Britain's Gainsborough Pictures studio and often appeared alongside her husband, Michael Denison, on TV and in theatre productions.
The couple even made their Broadway debut together playing Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1996.
However, Gray will be best remembered in Britain for her turn as Kate Harvey in BBC series Howards' Way between 1985 and 1990.
She returned to the stage after her husband's death in 1998 to appear in adaptations of The Ladykillers and The Lady Vanishes.
Her last TV appearance was in 2000 on British soap opera Doctors.
Gray also had a second career as an author, writing 24 books.
The star, most famous for her role in U.K. TV series Howards' Way, died at actors' residential home Denville Hall in London on Tuesday after a battle with bronchial pneumonia.
Gray started her career in 1940s melodramas for Britain's Gainsborough Pictures studio and often appeared alongside her husband, Michael Denison, on TV and in theatre productions.
The couple even made their Broadway debut together playing Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband in 1996.
However, Gray will be best remembered in Britain for her turn as Kate Harvey in BBC series Howards' Way between 1985 and 1990.
She returned to the stage after her husband's death in 1998 to appear in adaptations of The Ladykillers and The Lady Vanishes.
Her last TV appearance was in 2000 on British soap opera Doctors.
Gray also had a second career as an author, writing 24 books.
- 11/16/2011
- WENN
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