Henryetta Edwards (1 January 1926 – 1 May 2021) was a British actress on the London stage, and in films and television, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s.
Henryetta Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chrissie Henryetta Edwards 1 January 1926 Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK |
| Died | 1 May 2021 (aged 95) UK |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Parent(s) | Henry Edwards and Chrissie White |
Early life
editEdwards was born in Chertsey, Surrey, the daughter of actors Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.[1]
Career
editLondon stage roles for Edwards included parts in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1947), I Remember Mama (1948),[2] Terrence Rattigan's The Browning Version and Harlequinade (original casts, 1948–1949),[3] An Angel of No Importance (1949),[4] The Trial (1950), Treasure Hunt (1950),[5] The Attenborough Home (1953), Murder Story (1954), and Sailor Beware! (1955–1958).[6]
Edwards appeared in the films Squibs (1935, directed by her father), She Shall Have Murder (1950),[7] and The Feminine Touch (1956, a hospital drama from Ealing Studios;[8] marketed as The Gentle Touch in the United States, and A Lamp is Heavy in Canada).[9][10] She had roles in television adaptations of Lady from Edinburgh (1948), The Browning Version (1949), Harlequinade (1953), and Sailor Beware! (1956); she also appeared in "The Invisible Knife", an episode of the Boris Karloff series Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955).[11]
Personal life
editEdwards died in 2021, aged 95, in England. She never married.[12][13]
References
edit- ^ Murphy, Robert (25 July 2019). Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-532-8.
- ^ Brown, Ivor (7 March 1948). "Mum's The Word". The Observer. p. 2. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Browning Version and Harlequinade". Billboard. 12 March 1949. p. 55.
- ^ Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 313, 358, 386–387, 473. ISBN 978-0-8108-9306-1.
- ^ "Opera House: 'Treasure Hunt'". The Guardian. 1950-09-26. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Wearing, J. P. (16 September 2014). The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 14–15, 224, 315, 357. ISBN 978-0-8108-9308-5.
- ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. p. 576. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
- ^ "Ealing Studios: The Feminine Touch". Evening Standard. 7 January 2016. pp. A48. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Duguid, Mark; Freeman, Lee; Johnston, Keith; Williams, Melanie (31 October 2012). Ealing Revisited. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 192, 278–279. ISBN 978-1-84457-719-4.
- ^ Blum, Daniel (1958). Screen World. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-8196-0264-0.
- ^ Nollen, Scott Allen (4 January 2021). Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland. pp. 391–392. ISBN 978-1-4766-4086-0.
- ^ "Obituary: Henryetta Edwards". TheStage.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2021.(subscription required)
- ^ "Henryetta Edwards, ingénue of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 June 2021. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
External links
edit- Henryetta Edwards at IMDb
- Henryetta Edwards at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- "Personality: Meet Henry Edwards and Chrissie White" (1946), a British Pathé newsreel profile of Henryetta Edwards and her parents