Margaret Leighton

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1922-02-26 (54 years old)

Deathday

1976-01-13

Place of Birth

Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, U.K.

Margaret Leighton

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress. She had an exquisite sense of grandeur and refinement. She created the role of Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Leighton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1974

1949

1971

The Go-Between

as Mrs Maudsley

1962

Waltz of the Toreadors

as Emily Fitzjohn

1964

The Best Man

as Alice Russell

1954

Carrington V.C.

as Valerie Carrington

1965

The Loved One

as Mrs. Helen Kenton

1954

The Good Die Young

as Eve Ravenscourt

1974

From Beyond the Grave

as Madame Orloff

1974

Great Expectations

as Miss Havisham

1965

7 Women

as Agatha Andrews

1955

The Constant Husband

as Miss Chesterman

1948

The Winslow Boy

as Catherine Winslow

1976

Trial by Combat

as Ma Gore

1952

The Holly and the Ivy

as Margaret Gregory

1971

Zee and Co.

as Gladys

1969

The Madwoman of Chaillot

as Constance, the Madwoman of Passy

1951

Calling Bulldog Drummond

as Sergeant Helen Smith

1959

The Sound and the Fury

as Caddy Compson

1950

The Astonished Heart

as Leonora Vail

1975

Galileo

as Elderly Court Lady

1950

The Elusive Pimpernel

as Marguerite Blakeney

1948

Bonnie Prince Charlie

as Flora MacDonald

1954

The Teckman Mystery

as Helen Teckman

1972

Lady Caroline Lamb

as Lady Melbourne

1952

Home at Seven

as Janet Preston

1973

Bequest to the Nation

as Lady Frances Nelson

1957

The Passionate Stranger

as Judith Wynter / Leonie Hathaway

1969

An Ideal Husband

as Mrs Cheveley

1969

The Vortex

as Florence Lancaster

1972

High Summer

as Lady Huntercombe

1968

All on Her Own

as Rosemary

1955

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