Helen Horton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1923-09-28 (84 years old)

Deathday

2007-09-28

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Helen Horton

Biography

Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien. Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Ni...

Acting

1957

The Mark of the Hawk

as Barbara Craig

1972

Endless Night

as Aunt Beth

1974

Phase IV

as Mildred Eldridge

1984

The Razor's Edge

as Red Cross Lady

1953

Strange Stories

as Marie ('Strange Journey')

1960

1970

The Pueblo Affair

as Mrs. Bucher

1979

Alien

as Mother (voice)

1957

Let's Be Happy

as Sadie Whitelaw

1977

1985

1957

Thunder on Sycamore Street

as Clarice Morrison

1988

1969

The Chairman

as Susan Wright

1983

Superman III

as Miss Henderson

1980

The Best of Friends

as Mrs Lovsky

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