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Cherry Cottrell(1909-1996)

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Cherry Cottrell was born on 5 February 1909 in Exeter, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Hundred Years Old (1938), Sweeney Todd (1947) and The Fighting Pimpernel (1949). She died on 8 February 1996 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK.
BornFebruary 5, 1909
DiedFebruary 8, 1996(87)
BornFebruary 5, 1909
DiedFebruary 8, 1996(87)
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Known for

A Hundred Years Old
TV Movie
  • Currita
  • 1938
Sweeney Todd
TV Movie
  • Johanna Oakley
  • 1947
The Fighting Pimpernel (1949)
The Fighting Pimpernel
6.0
  • Lady Coke
  • 1949
R.U.R. (1938)
R.U.R.
6.6
TV Movie
  • Actress
  • 1938

Credits

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Actress

  • Not Without Licence
    4.6
    TV Short
    • (voice)
    • 1950
  • Here and There
    4.4
    Short
    • (voice)
    • 1949
  • The Fighting Pimpernel (1949)
    The Fighting Pimpernel
    6.0
    • Lady Coke
    • 1949
  • Sweeney Todd
    TV Movie
    • Johanna Oakley
    • 1947
  • The Pleasure Garden
    TV Movie
    • A poet's wife
    • 1947
  • The Rivals
    TV Movie
    • Lucy
    • 1938
  • A Hundred Years Old
    TV Movie
    • Currita
    • 1938
  • R.U.R. (1938)
    R.U.R.
    6.6
    TV Movie
    • 1938

Personal details

  • Born
    • February 5, 1909
    • Exeter, England, UK
  • Died
    • February 8, 1996
    • Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK
  • Other works
    She acted in Richard Brisley Sheridan's play, "The Rivals," at the Holborn Theatre in London, England with Roy Byford, Buena Bent, Lesley Wareing, Mary Hignett, John Laurie, Norman Wooland, George Benson, Sydney Bromley, and Hugh Burden in the cast. Baliol Holloway was director.

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  • Trivia
    After her brilliant critically-acclaimed performance as Ophelia to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet in the1937 Old Vic production in London she was amazed to learn that she was to be replaced by Vivien Leigh, Olivier's secret lover and soon-to-be wife, when the company was invited by the Danish government to perform the production at the Kronberg castle in Elsinore.

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