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  • | occupation = [[Film actress|Film actress]] <br /> [[Stage actress|Stage actress]] | yearsactive = 1934 – 1962 (film)
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  • | nationality = Australian ...mance Database |accessdate=21 September 2019}}</ref> was an [[w:Australian|Australian]]-born actress.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/june-jago
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  • {{short description|Australian actress}} ...w.ancestry.com.au}}</ref> was an Australian-born British actress of stage, film and television. Her parents were John Cooney and Clara Smythe. Her brother,
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  • ...appeared on television in her latter years, Cannon is best remembered as a film actress, with a lengthy career in British productions from the 1930s to the ...was given children's parts well into adulthood. In an interview with the ''Australian Women's Weekly'' published in 1963, she claimed it was the theatrical impre
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  • ...> She made her last film appearance, as a [[drag king]], in the Australian film ''[[The Adventures of Barry McKenzie]]'' (1972).<ref name=bfi>{{cite web|ur * ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)|Goodbye, Mr Chips]]'' (1939) – Flora
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  • ...'[[Calculated Risk (film)|Calculated Risk]]'', (also 1963); and the horror film, ''[[Theatre of Death|Theatre of Death]]'', (1967). Watling had been married twice: her first husband was Australian Bruce Anderson, from whom she divorced. After a relationship with actor Chr
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  • ...four series and 27 episodes, followed by a [[w:Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] film. At the same time, she was appearing periodically as Mrs. Abbott, the absur *1971: ''[[Please Sir! (film)|Please Sir!]]'' - Mrs. Abbott
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  • ...d an expert animal handler, worked on the film ''[[The Four Feathers (1921 film)|The Four Feathers]]'' (1921), and later wrote a book about the experience, ...en's Royal Naval Service]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/aug/11/1|title = Obituary: Jill Adams|date = 10 August 2008}}</ref> Du
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  • ...]]'', ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' and ''[[Mahler (film)|Mahler]]'' (by [[Ken Russell]]). In 1954, she had the part of a Martian al ...appeared opposite Sir [[Laurence Olivier]] in the [[The Entertainer (film)|film adaptation]] of [[John Osborne]]'s play ''[[The Entertainer (play)|The Ente
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  • ...s]] in ''[[Big Bad Mouse]]'' (1972) [[Sykes (TV series)|''Sykes'']] and TV film ''[[The Likes of Sykes]]'' (1980). At the peak of ''Hi-de-Hi!'' in the 1980 ...=51|language=en-GB|issn=0033-8060}}</ref> She played Miss Lavant in the TV film ''The Children of Dynmouth'' (1987), and Madame Dupree in ''Lace 2'' (1985)
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  • ...1947) and ''[[Jassy (film)|Jassy]]'' (1947). Shaw was in ''[[Holiday Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]]'' (1947) which introduced the Huggett family, although she ...t.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230551834 |title=FILM NEWS FROM ENGLAND AND AMERICA |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issu
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  • ...s+calvert+obituary&pg=PA49 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2002: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |first= ...n/> She gained her first film role at the age of 12, in ''[[The Arcadians (film)|The Arcadians]]'' (1927), also known as ''The Land of Heart's Desire''.<re
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  • ...Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'' (1958), ''[[Born Free (film)|Born Free]]'' (1966), and ''[[Ring of Bright Water]]'' (1969), as well as ...Sea]]'' (1953) and a better part in the low budget comedy ''[[The Oracle (film)|The Oracle]]'' (1953). She received excellent reviews for her stage perfor
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  • ...'''Joan Mildred Field'''; 29 June 1921 − 30 November 2013) was an English film and television actress. ...radise – review &#124; cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online|website=Radio Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.
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  • ...en]] (1913–2001) and her daughter [[Susan Travers (actress)|Susan]] became actresses. ...e to know [[John Masters]], his brigade major. (Travers later acted in the film ''[[Bhowani Junction]]'', written by Masters.) While deep behind enemy line
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  • ...nifred Banks in [[Walt Disney]]'s musical motion picture ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]].'' In 2020, with the death of [[Olivia de Havilland]], John ...upporting Actress]] for her work in the 1960 film ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]''. She is one of the last surviving stars from the [[Clas
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  • ...nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DBE}} (1 April 1893 – 26 April 1980) was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer. The daughter of the producer and ...er of the singer and actress [[Cicely Nott]] and the sister of three other actresses, including [[Ada Blanche]], a well-known [[pantomime]] star.<ref name=dnb>P
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  • *{{marriage|[[w:Greg Smith (film producer)|Greg Smith]]|1975|1976|end=div}} ==Film and television==
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  • ...1986), known professionally as '''Anna Neagle''', was an English stage and film actress, singer and dancer. ...|Neagle with [[Paul Hartman]] and [[Ray Bolger]] in the film [[Sunny (1941 film)|''Sunny'']]]]
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  • ...10/birds-of-a-feather-1989-1998/|title=Kent Film Office Birds of a Feather Film Focus}}</ref> ...by actor [[William Atherton]] for the 1974 film ''[[The Great Gatsby (1974 film)|The Great Gatsby]]'' was used; from the [[List of Birds of a Feather episo
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