Beatrix Lehmann
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Beatrix Alice Lehmann (1 July 1903 – 31 July 1979) was a British actress, theatre director, writer and novelist.[1]
Early life and family
Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. She came from a family of notable achievers: the third of four children of author and publisher Rudolph Chambers Lehmann. Her great-uncle was Henri Lehmann the artist.[2] Her brother was publisher John Lehmann and one of her two elder sisters was the novelist Rosamond Lehmann.[3]
Career
Lehmann trained at RADA and made her stage debut as Peggy in a 1924 production The Way of the World at the Lyric Hammersmith.[4] She also appeared in films and on television.[5] She wrote short stories and two novels, including Rumour of Heaven, first published in 1934 (Template:ISBN). In 1946 Lehmann became director and producer of the Arts Council Midland Theatre Company.[4]
She was awarded Britain's Radio Actress of the Year in 1977.[6] In 1962 she played the matriarch Bernadette Amorelle in a Maigret episode, The Dirty House. She played Susan Calvin in "The Prophet" (1967), a now lost episode of the British science fiction television series Out of the Unknown, and appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Stones of Blood (1978) as Professor Emilia Rumford.[7] In 1978 she played Mrs Pleasant in a film version of The Cat and The Canary.[8] Other roles include Z-Cars, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, War and Peace, Love for Lydia, Staircase, Armchair Thriller and Crime and Punishment.
Death
Lehmann died in Camden, London, aged 76.
There are 12 portraits of Lehmann in the British National Portrait Gallery Collection.[4]
Filmography
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) as Miss Kite
- Strangers on Honeymoon (1936) as Elfrida
- The Rat (1937) as Marguerite
- Candles at Nine (1944) as Julia Carberry, Everard's Housekeeper
- The Key (1958) as Housekeeper
- On the Fiddle (1961) as Lady Edith
- Psyche 59 (1964) as Mrs. Crawford
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965) as Tribunal President
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) as Domina's Mother
- Wonderwall (1968) as Mother
- The Portrait of a Lady (1968, TV Series) as Lydia Touchett
- Staircase (1969) as Charlie's Mother
- The Cat and the Canary (1978) as Mrs. Pleasant
- The Stones of Blood (Doctor Who) (1978) as Professor Rumford
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Beatrix Lehmann". Oxfordreference.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Guppy, Shusha (11 August 1985). "Rosamond Lehmann, The Art of Fiction No. 88". The Paris Review. Vol. Summer 1985, no. 96 – via www.theparisreview.org.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lehmann Family Papers - Rare Books and Special Collections". rbsc.princeton.edu.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Beatrix Lehmann – Person – National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. 22 September 1970. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Beatrix Lehmann – Movies and Filmography – AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Beatrix Lehmann, British Actress of Stage, Screen, TV and Radio". The New York Times. 2 August 1979. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide – The Stones of Blood – Details". BBC. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Cat and the Canary (1981)". Bfi.org. Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
External links
- Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
- Beatrix Lehmann at IMDbTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Beatrix Lehmann Obituary in The New York Times
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