Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood

Margaret Lockwood, CBE (15 September 1916 – 15 July 1990) was an English actress, notable for her performance in the 1945 Gainsborough movie, The Wicked Lady. Margaret Mary Lockwood Day was born in Karachi, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan), to an English administrator of a railway company and his Scottish wife. Lockwood's family returned to the United Kingdom when she was a child, along with her brother. She attended Sydenham High School for girls, and a ladies school in Kensington, London. She began studying for the stage at an early age at the Italia Conti, and made her debut in 1928, at the age of 12, at the Holborn Empire, where she played a fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In December of the following year, she appeared at the Scala Theatre in the pantomime The Babes in the Wood. In 1932, she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in Cavalcade. Lockwood then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, where she was seen by a talent scout and signed to a contract. In June 1934, she played Myrtle in House on Fire at the Queen's Theatre, and on 22 August 1934 appeared as Margaret Hamilton in Gertrude Jenning's play Family Affairs when it premiered at the Ambassadors Theatre; Helene Ferber in Repayment at the Arts Theatre in January 1936; Trixie Drew in Henry Bernard's play Miss Smith at the Duke of York's Theatre in July 1936; and back at the Queen's in July 1937 as Ann Harlow in Ann's Lapse. Lockwood entered films in 1934, and in 1935 she appeared in the film version of Lorna Doone. In 1938 she starred in her most successful film, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, in which she first appeared with Michael Redgrave. In 1940, she played the role of Jenny Sunley, the self-centered, frivolous wife of Michael Redgrave's character in The Stars Look Down. In the early 1940s, Lockwood changed her on-screen image to play villainesses in both contemporary and period films, becoming the most successful actress in British films during that period. Her greatest success was in the title role in The Wicked Lady (1945), a film which was controversial in its day and brought her considerable publicity. In 1946 Lockwood gained the Daily Mail National Film Awards First Prize for most popular British film actress. She made a return to the stage in a record-breaking national tour of Noel Coward's Private Lives in 1949, and also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951, and the title role in Peter Pan in 1949, 1950, and 1957 (the latter with her daughter as Wendy). Her subsequent long-running West End hits include an all-star production of Wilde's An Ideal Husband (1965/66, in which she played the villainous Mrs Cheveley), Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick (1970), Relative Values (Noel Coward revival, 1973), and the thrillers Spider's Web (1955, written for her by Agatha Christie), Signpost to Murder (1962), and Double Edge (1975). In 1969, she starred as barrister Julia Stanford in the TV play, Justice is a Woman. This inspired the Yorkshire Television series, Justice, which ran for three seasons (39 episodes) from 1971 to 1974, and featured her real-life partner, John Stone, as fictional boyfriend, Dr Ian Moody. Lockwood's role as the feisty Harriet Peterson won her Best Actress Awards from the TV Times (1971) and The Sun (1973). Her last professional appearance was as Queen Alexandra in Royce Ryton's stage play, Motherdear (Ambassadors Theatre, 1980). She was created a CBE in the New Year Honours of 1981. Margaret Lockwood had married and been divorced from Rupert Leon. She lived her final years in seclusion and died in the Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London from cirrhosis of the liver, aged 73. She was cremated at Putney Vale Crematorium. She was survived by her daughter, actress Julia Clark (née Margaret Julia Leon, born 1941).
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1916-09-15
Place of Birth: Karachi, British India [now Pakistan]
Also Known As: Маргарет Локвуд, Margaret Mary Day Lockwood

Movies List of Margaret Lockwood

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The Lady Vanishes

1938 Movie
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Jury's Evidence

1936 Movie
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Spider's Web

1955 Movie
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Cast a Dark Shadow

1955 Movie
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Doctor Syn

1937 Movie
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The Wicked Lady

1945 Movie
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Honours Easy

1935 Movie
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Night Train to Munich

1940 Movie
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A Place of One's Own

1945 Movie
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The Man in Grey

1943 Movie
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Madness of the Heart

1949 Movie
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The Stars Look Down

1940 Movie
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Bank Holiday

1938 Movie
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Bedelia

1946 Movie
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Trent's Last Case

1952 Movie
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Highly Dangerous

1950 Movie
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Girl in the News

1940 Movie
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Rulers of the Sea

1939 Movie
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Trouble in the Glen

1954 Movie
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Hungry Hill

1947 Movie
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Alibi

1942 Movie
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Man of the Moment

1935 Movie
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Owd Bob

1938 Movie
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Midshipman Easy

1935 Movie
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Quiet Wedding

1941 Movie
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Jassy

1947 Movie
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Look Before You Love

1948 Movie
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The White Unicorn

1947 Movie
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Laughing Anne

1953 Movie
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Love Story

1944 Movie
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Give Us the Moon

1944 Movie
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Cardboard Cavalier

1949 Movie
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The Beloved Vagabond

1936 Movie
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The Street Singer

1937 Movie
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The Amateur Gentleman

1936 Movie
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Pygmalion

1948 Movie
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A Girl Must Live

1939 Movie
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Justice Is a Woman

1969 Movie
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Lorna Doone

1934 Movie
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Dear Octopus

1943 Movie
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Someday

1935 Movie