Dulcie Gray
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 20, 1919
Deathday: November 15, 2011
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Angels One Five
1952-03-19
Angels One Five
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
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A Place of One's Own
1945-03-20
A Place of One's Own
Overview: An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-20
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Wanted for Murder
1946-06-17
Wanted for Murder
Overview: The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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Mine Own Executioner
1947-11-22
Mine Own Executioner
Overview: Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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The Years Between
1946-07-08
The Years Between
Overview: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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A Man Could Get Killed
1966-03-25
A Man Could Get Killed
Overview: An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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A Man About the House
1947-10-03
A Man About the House
Overview: Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-03
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The Glass Mountain
1949-03-09
The Glass Mountain
Overview: An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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The Franchise Affair
1951-02-19
The Franchise Affair
Overview: An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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My Brother Jonathan
1948-02-05
My Brother Jonathan
Overview: Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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Unexpectedly Vacant
1970-03-09
Unexpectedly Vacant
Overview: A husband and wife acting team face the growing realisation that they will never be better than mediocre during a summer spent in rep.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-09
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Victory Wedding
1944-01-01
Victory Wedding
Overview: A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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There Was a Young Lady
1953-01-01
There Was a Young Lady
Overview: A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1999-01-01
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: An engaging profile of the classic film; featuring interviews with Stephen Fry, Dulcie Gray and Dorothy Tutin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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They Were Sisters
1945-07-02
They Were Sisters
Overview: The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-02
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Two Thousand Women
1944-11-06
Two Thousand Women
Overview: During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-06
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
1945-01-22
Madonna of the Seven Moons
Overview: In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Life After Death
1982-02-02
Life After Death
Overview: "We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-02
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