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Dulcie Gray

Dulcie Gray

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist. Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Affair in 1950 and the Battle of Britain movie Angels One Five in 1952. Her performance as the luckless waitress Rose in the original stage production of Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre in 1944 led to Gray being offered a contract with Gainsborough Pictures. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh. During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90). Gray and Denison made their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, appearing as Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham from 1 May 1996 until 26 January 1997. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green. In 1999, the year after her husband's death, she played Mrs Wilberforce in an 18-city tour of UK theatres in a stage adaptation of the 1955 Ealing classic film, The Ladykillers. She last appeared on screen in 2000 in an episode of the BBC drama series Doctors. Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.

Personal information

Birthday

1919-11-20

Birth Place

Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Movies and TV shows :

A Man About the House

A Man About the House

1947

6.9

Movie
A Man Could Get Killed

A Man Could Get Killed

1966

3.8

Movie
A Place of One's Own

A Place of One's Own

1945

5.4

Movie
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest

1999

0.0

Movie
poster

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

1983

6.1

TV
Angels One Five

Angels One Five

1952

6.0

Movie
poster

Crown Court

1972

5.4

TV
poster

Howards' Way

1985

5.6

TV
Life After Death

Life After Death

1982

0.0

Movie
Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons

1945

6.3

Movie
Mine Own Executioner

Mine Own Executioner

1947

7.0

Movie
My Brother Jonathan

My Brother Jonathan

1948

6.8

Movie
poster

Rumpole of the Bailey

1975

7.1

TV
poster

Tales from the Crypt

1989

8.0

TV
The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair

1951

6.7

Movie
The Glass Mountain

The Glass Mountain

1949

6.0

Movie
The Years Between

The Years Between

1946

6.2

Movie
There Was a Young Lady

There Was a Young Lady

1953

6.0

Movie
They Were Sisters

They Were Sisters

1945

5.6

Movie
poster

Three Up, Two Down

1985

5.6

TV
Two Thousand Women

Two Thousand Women

1944

6.8

Movie
Unexpectedly Vacant

Unexpectedly Vacant

1970

0.0

Movie
Victory Wedding

Victory Wedding

1944

0.0

Movie
Wanted for Murder

Wanted for Murder

1946

6.3

Movie