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Margaret Leighton, CBE (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film.
Margaret Leighton. Actress: The Go-Between. Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired British award-winning theatre actress Margaret Leighton was born in Worchestershire, England, on February 26, 1922, the daughter of a businessman.
Oct 9, 2019 · Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress. Her film appearances included ‘The Winslow Boy’, ‘Under Capricorn’, ‘Calling Bulldog Drummond’, ‘Carrington V.C.’ and ‘The Best Man ...
Leighton, Margaret (1922–1976) British actress who won two Tony awards. Born on February 26, 1922, near Birmingham, England; died on January 13, 1976; eldest daughter and one of threechildren (two girls and a boy) of Augustus George Leighton (a businessman) and Doris Isobel (Evans) Leighton; attended the Church of England College, Edgbaston, ...
Margaret Leighton was an English actress of stage and screen noted for her versatility in classic and contemporary roles. Leighton made her stage debut as Dorothy in Laugh With Me (1938) at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and then studied at Sir Barry Jackson’s theatre school in Birmingham.
Margaret Leighton, CBE (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included Anthony Asquith 's The Winslow Boy (her first credited film role), Alfred Hitchcock 's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger 's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall 's The ...
After joining the Old Vic Company under the direction of Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, she rose to prominence in the late '40s; over the next decade she became a highly respected actress for her work in both London and Broadway, typically portraying fragile, neurotic women.
