Peggy Ashcroft
Acting • Born 1907-12-22 – Died 1991-06-14
Biography
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
Filmography
42 credits
The 39 Steps
Movie • 1935
The Crofter's Wife Margaret
When the Wind Blows
Movie • 1986
Hilda Bloggs (voice)
Murder by the Book
Movie • 1986
Agatha Christie
The Nun's Story
Movie • 1959
Mother Mathilde
The Pedestrian
Movie • 1973
Lady Gray
A Passage to India
Movie • 1984
Mrs. Moore
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1971
Mrs. Greville
Secret Ceremony
Movie • 1968
Hannah
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1962
Madame Ranevsky
Caught on a Train
Movie • 1980
Frau Messner
Madame Sousatzka
Movie • 1988
Lady Emily
Joseph Andrews
Movie • 1977
Lady Tattle
3 Into 2 Won't Go
Movie • 1969
Belle
Quiet Wedding
Movie • 1941
Flower Lisle
Britain Welcomes the President of India
Movie • 1963
The Wars of the Roses
Movie • 1965
Queen Margaret
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Movie • 1978
Queen Mary
Little Eyolf
Movie • 1982
The Rat Wife
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
Movie • 1978
Lady Gee
She's Been Away
Movie • 1989
Lillian Huckle
Cream in My Coffee
Movie • 1980
Jean Wilsher
Rhodes of Africa
Movie • 1936
Anna Carpenter
Tell Me Lies
Movie • 1968
Channel Incident
Movie • 1940
The Woman
The Wandering Jew
Movie • 1933
Olalla Quintana (Phase IV)
October Revolution
Movie • 1967
Self (narrator)
The Heat of the Day
Movie • 1989
Nettie
We Serve
Movie • 1942
Terminus
Movie • 1961
Mother (uncredited)
The Wind and the Bomb
Movie • 1986
Laurence Olivier: a life
Movie • 1982
Self
From Chekhov with Love
Movie • 1968
Olga Knipper
Edward and Mrs Simpson
TV • 1978
Queen Mary
The Wars of the Roses
TV • 1965
Queen Margaret
Six Centuries of Verse
TV • 1984
Self - Reader
A Perfect Spy
TV • 1987
Miss Dubber
Playing Shakespeare
TV • 1984
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Frau Messner
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
The Rat Wife
The Jewel in the Crown
TV • 1984
Barbie Batchelor
Theatre 625
TV • 1964
Rebekka West