To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. "Obituary: Dulcie Gray, Film and stage actress", "Gray Returns to Stage with Ladykillers Tour", "Howards' Way star Dulcie Gray dies at 95", https://vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/64652/thread, "Reviews & Notices: Butterflies on My Mind", "Dulcie Gray: Actress whose celebrated career stretched across eight decades", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dulcie_Gray&oldid=982304124, Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Episodes: "A Lesson in Love", "The Happy McBains", This page was last edited on 7 October 2020, at 10:04. Please enter location or other information that may help the volunteer in fulfilling this request. Sweet-faced, gentle-voiced veteran British actress Dulcie Gray's demure career is often linked with that of her late actor/husband Michael Denison, with whom she appeared frequently on stage, TV and in films in over a hundred projects for nearly four decades. She also published Butterflies on My Mind, a work on the conservation and life of butterflies in Great Britain. 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. Failed to report flower. One of the finest exponents of the art of light comedy acting, Michael Denison enjoyed a highly successful career both on stage and screen. She was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in March 1973 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Richmond Theatre; and in April 1995, when Michael Aspel surprised her and her husband Michael Denison, on board the Sir Tomas More motorboat at Teddington Lock, for a joint tribute. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh. 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.
When her husband returned from war service, he found that his wife was established as a film star and radio favourite. He and his wife, actress Dulcie Gray, appeared in over 100 West End shows and their marriage, which lasted nearly sixty years, was regarded as one of the happiest in British show business. GREAT NEWS! Dulcie Gray (72) was born in Kuala Lumpur, the daughter of a lawyer.
During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. He became a self-trained naturalist as a young man, learning about the field from his brother, William, who was a birder, and the likes of John James Audubon, who instructed Baird on how to draw scientific illustrations of birds. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green.
Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. × Drag images here or select from your computer for Dulcie Gray memorial. She was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in March 1973 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Richmond Theatre; and in April 1995, when Michael Aspel surprised her and her husband Michael Denison, on board the Sir Thomas More motorboat at Teddington Lock, for a joint tribute. Oops, we were unable to send the email. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Dulcie Gray (20 Nov 1919–15 Nov 2011), Find a Grave Memorial no. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards’ Way (1985–90). © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. For help using the website visit our help page or contact [email protected]. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print.
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She launched what would become a successful association with Gainsborough Pictures, beginning with "Madonna of the Seven Moons" (1945), also including her breakthrough film "They Were Sisters" (1945), as she specialized in portraying refined and respectable ladies.
She played in Shakespeare at Regent's Park Open Air theatre; in popular plays such as The Little Foxes (1942), Brighton Rock (1943) and Dear Ruth (1946); and also that year went on tour with Fools Rush In. Dulcie Gray wrote some two dozen murder mysteries, which found wide popularity, including seventeen detective stories featuring “Inspector Cardiff”, a character she created, eight radio plays, several volumes of short stories (one of these included “A Feast of Blood”, which was turned into a Night Gallery episode) and an autobiography, Looking Forward, Looking Back. Make sure that the file is a photo. 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. Veteran British actress Dulcie Gray has passed away at the age of 92. After her father's death, she came back to England.
Gray would later become familiar to British TV audiences for playing Kate Harvey in the series "Howard's Way" (1985 to 1990). Oops, something didn't work. Also in other Broadway shows. We do not have any photo volunteers within fifty miles of your requested photo location. He assaulted an officer, deserted, and fled to England where he studied briefly under the sculptor Edward Hodges Baily. Try again later. She acted on radio, television, motion pictures and Broadway plays. They had no children. 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. She began her career in 1913 playing in numerous films for Universal and Vitagraph and in 1918 she played in fifteen episodes of the serial “Wolves of Kultur.” In the mid-1920s, Baird became a screenwriter and contributed to a number of Clara Bow features. Your password must be at least 8 characters, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Try again later.
It was the sort of role for which she was most often chosen: the inconspicuous, quietly adoring woman able and willing to put her own emotions in the background to care for her erring man; round-faced, genteel and rather prim. Singer, Dancer, and Actor. Family members linked to this person will appear here. 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. All this suggested a useful if not overly magnetic stage presence, pretty rather than beautiful, reassuring rather than challenging; it was possibly true. You have chosen this person to be their own family member. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films.
All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap dancer, and suggested she enter […], A former vaudeville musician and World’s Fair barker, Bailey is best remembered as the host of Queen for a Day, a daytime game show which first aired on the Mutual Radio Network in 1945 and later moved to television, where it ran locally in the Los Angeles area from 1948 through 1955, on the NBC […], Dulcie 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. Cause of death was pneumonia and bone marrow cancer. We’ve updated the security on the site.
Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Raised in Liverpool under unpleasant familial circumstances that appeared frequently in her books, she was expelled from the Merchant Taylor’s School at 14 over the explicit sexual content of some poetry she had written. She was perhaps Hungary’s most famous theatre star of her era, renowned for her beauty, versatility, and mesmerizing presence. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green. It was never officially released as a record. Her first appearance was as Sorel Bliss, the ingenue in Hay Fever, at His Majesty's theatre, Aberdeen.
Her roles ranged from the Ancient Greek classics to contemporary dramas, and she helped introduce modern acting techniques to the Hungarian stage. He studied at the Banff School of Fine Arts before serving in the Canadian Army during World War II. A grandson of slaves, he was not just the first African American to appear on the Grand Ole Opry, he was the first star to appear. She lived latterly in the actors' care home Denville Hall, in west London. 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. 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.
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