Mary Morris
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| 1979 | Vanishing Animals and Other Stories. This volume, winner of the Rome Prize in Literature, concentrates on the childhood and adolescent reminiscences of its characters. Anne Tyler, among others, expresses admiration for Morris's exploration of the ambiguous relationships among her characters and the author's tactful, precise use of language. The Chicago-born writer's other books include the novels Crossroads (1983), The Waiting Room (1989), and A Mother's Love (1993). |
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Biography
Mary Morris -- not to be confused with the similarly named American actress -- was a busy actress in England across four decades, primarily in the theater, interspersed with a lot of work on British television and the occasional film role. Born in the Fiji Islands in 1915, she was educated in England, and was bitten by the acting bug before age ten. By 20, she'd landed her first professional role in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre. She concentrated on the stage throughout her career over the next 40 years -- slight in stature, and dark-complexioned, with wide, expressive eyes and a deep, powerfully expressive voice, she aimed herself at a huge range of parts, counting Juliet, Cleopatra, and Saint Joan among her favorites but also encompassing works such as John Masefield's The Witch. And according to the London Times, she turned Peter Pan from J.M. Barrie's work into something "quite frightening."On film, she played onto a tiny handful of roles, starting for producer Alexander Korda in the late '30s, in The Spy in Black (1939) and much more prominently in The Thief of Bagdad (1940), in which she played both Halima, a villainous confederate of the evil vizier portrayed by Conrad Veidt, and the sinister, murderous mechanical "Silver Maid." She also worked for Leslie Howard in the actor/director's thriller Pimpernel Smith (1941). Morris appeared in dozens of dramas on British television, in between her theater commitments, and her best-known part on the small-screen was in an episode of The Prisoner entitled "Dance of the Dead," in which she played "Number Two," the sinister operational head of "The Village" in which the hero is trapped; at one point in that episode, there is a costume ball in which Morris got to briefly revive her notably dark and sinister version of Peter Pan. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
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For other people named Mary Morris, see Mary Morris (disambiguation).
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| Born | 13 December 1915 Lautoka, Fiji |
| Died | 14 October 1988 (aged 72) Aigle, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1937–1988 |
Mary Morris (Mary Lilian Agnes Morris, 13 December 1915 – 14 October 1988) was a British actress.
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Life and career
She was the daughter of Herbert Stanley Morris, the botanist, and his wife Sylvia Ena de Creft-Harford. She was educated at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
She made her stage debut in Lysistrata at the Gate Theatre, London, in 1935. In 1943, she played Anna Petrovitch in the Ealing war movie Undercover as the wife of a Serbian guerrilla leader. She played Professor Madeleine Dawnay in the science-fiction television drama A for Andromeda (and its sequel, The Andromeda Breakthrough), and the female Number Two in the episode Dance of the Dead of the TV series The Prisoner (1967).
She also appeared on television in Doctor Who in 1982 in the story Kinda, playing the shaman Panna opposite Peter Davison. Other television appearances included the Countess Vronsky in Anna Karenina (1977, PBS), the macabre, ancient relative in the Walter De La Mare story Seaton's Aunt (1983, PBS) and the formidable matriarch in Police at the Funeral ( 1989, PBS).
She played Peter Pan on two occasions: once on the stage (as a Gypsy boy) and once as Number Two dressing up as him at a masquerade ball.
She died from heart failure on 14 October 1988 in Aigle, Switzerland.
Filmography
- Victoria the Great
- Prison Without Bars
- The Spy in Black
- Who Killed Jack Robins?
- The Thief of Bagdad
- Major Barbara
- Pimpernel Smith
- Undercover
- The Agitator
- The Man from Morocco
- Train of Events
- The Pythoness
- High Treason
- The Face of Love
Television
- The Philco Television Playhouse
- An Age of Kings
- Interpol Calling
- A for Andromeda
- The Andromeda Breakthrough
- The Spread of the Eagle
- Ghost Squad
- Londoners
- Thirty-Minute Theatre
- The Prisoner
- Theatre 625
- Men of Iron
- Play of the Month
- Hunter's Walk
- An Unofficial Rose
- Boy Dominic
- Ballet Shoes
- Play for Today
- Full Circle
- Anna Karenina
- King Richard the Second
- Doctor Who (Kinda)
- Seaton's Aunt
- Diana
- The Life and Death of King John
- Sunday Premiere: Claws
- The Ray Bradbury Theater
- Campion
External links
Mary Morris at the Internet Movie Database
References
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