Ursula Howells

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-09-17 (83 years old)

Deathday

2005-10-16

Place of Birth

Hammersmith, London, England, UK

Ursula Howells

Biography

Howells was born in London, the daughter of composer Herbert Howells, and was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, where her father worked as Director of Music. She made her first stage appearance at Dundee in 1939, in John Drinkwater's Bird in Hand, then moved to Oxford in 1942 and three years later made her London debut at the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage. In 1947 she appeared in the comedy Jane at the Aldwych Theatre. After several years in the West End, and a brief stint on Broadway where she appeared in Springtime for Henry in 1951, she began to appear in films. After the death of her father in 1983, Ursula Howells instigated the "Her...

Acting

1968

Assignment K

as Estelle

1965

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

as Mrs. Deirdre Biddulph (segment 1 "Werewolf")

1986

Time After Time

as May Swift

1957

Now Let Him Go

as Nurse Judith

1957

Account Rendered

as Lucille Ainsworth

1969

Crossplot

as Maggi Thwaites

1973

1955

Track the Man Down

as Mary Dennis

1955

The Gilded Cage

as Brenda Lucas

1963

80,000 Suspects

as Joanna Duten

1974

Miss Nightingale

as Aunt May

1956

The Long Arm

as Mrs. Elliot / Mrs. Gilson

1957

West of Suez

as Eileen

1967

Torture Garden

as Miss Maxine Chambers (segment 3 "Mr. Steinway")

1980

Gentle Folk

as Mrs Menant

1962

1972

1974

Little Fears

as The Older Woman

1963

The Sicilians

as Mme. Perrault

1955

They Can't Hang Me

as Antonia Pitt

1951

Flesh and Blood

as Harriet Marshall

1998

The Tichborne Claimant

as Lady Doughty

1994

A Pinch of Snuff

as Alice Andover

1953

The Oracle

as Peggy

1954

1956

Keep It Clean

as Pat Anstey

1963

1984

The Cold Room

as Headmistress

1952

I Believe in You

as Hon. Ursula

1980

The Enigma

as Mrs Fielding

1978

When the Actors Come

as Barbara Karolina

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