Henryetta Edwards
Henryetta Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chrissie Henryetta Edwards 1 January 1926 |
| Died | 1 May 2021 (aged 95) England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Parent(s) | Henry Edwards and Chrissie White |
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.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Edwards was born in Chertsey, Surrey, the daughter of actors Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]London 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
[edit | edit source]Edwards died in 2021, aged 95, in England. She never married.[12][13]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 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
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