Fay Compton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1894-09-18 (84 years old)

Deathday

1978-12-12

Place of Birth

Fulham, London, England, UK

Fay Compton

Biography

From Wikipedia Fay Compton CBE (18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her elder sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts. Her grandfather was the 19th-century theatrical luminary Henry Compton. Author Compton Mackenzie was her elder brother. Compton's film work is not as well known as her stage appearances. She appeared in more than forty films between 1914 and 1970. Her most popular performances in films are Odd Man Out (1947), Laughter in P...

Acting

1921

A Woman of No Importance

as Rachel Arbuthnot

1963

The Haunting

as Mrs. Sanderson

1947

Odd Man Out

as Rosie

1951

Othello

as Emilia

1951

Laughter in Paradise

as Agnes Russell

1925

The Happy Ending

as Mildred Craddock

1953

The Vanquished

as Mrs. Pinkerton

1957

Town on Trial

as Mrs. Crowley

1948

London Belongs to Me

as Mrs. Josser

1949

The Forbidden Street

as Mrs. Culver

1948

Esther Waters

as Mrs. Barfield

1951

Blackmailed

as Mrs. Christopher

1957

1934

Autumn Crocus

as Jenny Grey

1921

The Old Wives' Tale

as Sophie Barnes

1952

Lady Possessed

as Mme. Brune

1956

Doublecross

as Alice Pascoe

1934

Waltzes from Vienna

as Countess Helga von Stahl

1931

Cape Forlorn

as Eileen Kell

1941

The Prime Minister

as Queen Victoria

1937

The Mill on the Floss

as Mrs. Tulliver

1931

Tell England

as Mrs. Doe

1954

Aunt Clara

as Gladys Smith

1924

The Eleventh Commandment

as Ruth Barchester

1939

So This Is London

as Lady Worthing

1929

Fashions in Love

as Marie de Remy

1922

A Bill of Divorcement

as Margaret Fairfield

1925

1970

I Start Counting

as Mrs. Bennett

1931

Uneasy Virtue

as Dorothy Rendell

1963

Uncle Vanya

as Marya, the mother

1927

Somehow Good

as Rosalind Nightingale

1922

The House of Peril

as Sylvia Bailey

1927

London Love

as Sally Hope

1924

Claude Duval

as Duchess Frances

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