Acting
Community Rating
6.1
TMDB estimate
Born
November 20, 1919
Died
November 15, 2011 (age 91)
Born in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dulcie Gray, CBE (born Dulcie Winifred Catherine Bailey, 20 November 1915 – 15 November 2011) was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist. Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father's death, she came back to Britain. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met fellow actor Michael Denison, whom she married in 1939. The couple were together for 59 years before his death from cancer in 1998. They had no children. The couple's professional careers were intertwined and they frequently appeared on stage together. Between them they starred in more than 100 West End plays and in the 1940s and 1950s, were familiar figures in British films. Onscreen they co-starred in My Brother Jonathan and The Glass Mountain in 1948, The Franchise Affair in 1950 and the Battle of Britain movie Angels One Five in 1952. Her performance as the luckless waitress Rose in the original stage production of Brighton Rock at the Garrick Theatre in 1944 led to Gray being offered a contract with Gainsborough Pictures. However, she was passed over for the role of Rose in the 1947 film version of Brighton Rock, in favour of Carol Marsh. During the 1940s, Gray appeared in Gainsborough melodramas such as They Were Sisters. She was known to television viewers as Kate Harvey in the 1980s BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90). Gray and Denison made their joint Broadway debut in the first New York production of Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, appearing as Lady Markby and the Earl of Caversham from 1 May 1996 until 26 January 1997. Their wedding anniversary was feted by cast and crew at Tavern on the Green. In 1999, the year after her husband's death, she played Mrs Wilberforce in an 18-city tour of UK theatres in a stage adaptation of the 1955 Ealing classic film, The Ladykillers. She last appeared on screen in 2000 in an episode of the BBC drama series Doctors. Dulcie Gray died from bronchial pneumonia in the actors' residential care home, Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, on 15 November 2011, five days before her 96th birthday.

The Voysey Inheritance
as Mrs Voysey
2014
A Profile of The Importance of Being Earnest
1999

Tales from the Crypt
as Mrs. Wilder
1989

Howards' Way
as Kate Harvey
1985

Three Up, Two Down
as Nanny Parker
1985
Cold Warrior
as Cecily Broome
1984

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
1983

Life After Death
as Sales Assistant
1982

Rumpole of the Bailey
as Mrs. Lorraine Lee
1975

Crown Court
as Stella Pickford
1972
Unexpectedly Vacant
as Moira Tait
1970

ITV Playhouse
as Moira Tait
1967

A Man Could Get Killed
as Mrs. Mathieson
1966

BBC Play of the Month
as Mrs. Voysey
1965
Somerset Maugham Hour
as Leslie Crosbie
1960

There Was a Young Lady
as Elizabeth Foster
1953

Angels One Five
as Nadine Clinton
1952

The Franchise Affair
as Marion Sharpe
1951

The Glass Mountain
as Anne Wilder
1949

My Brother Jonathan
as Rachel Hammond
1948