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Margaret Vyner(1914-1993)

  • Actress
  • Writer
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Margaret Vyner
An Australian-born actress and dramatist, who married Hugh Williams in 1940 and bore him three children. Their actor son Simon Williams married Belinda Carroll and Lucy Fleming, finding fame with "Upstairs Downstairs" and their elder son Hugo became a poet. Their daughter Polly was married to the actor Nigel Havers and was an actress and model, as Polly Williams. Amongst several plays that she wrote with her husband was "The Grass is Greener", which was filmed in 1961. She was widowed in 1969 and died in 1993.
BornDecember 3, 1914
DiedOctober 30, 1993(78)
BornDecember 3, 1914
DiedOctober 30, 1993(78)
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Known for

The Cavalier of the Streets
  • Fay Avalon
  • 1937
The Flying Doctor (1936)
The Flying Doctor
  • Betty Webb
  • 1936
Jessie Matthews in Sailing Along (1938)
Sailing Along
6.5
  • Stephanie
  • 1938
Jessie Matthews and Michael Redgrave in Climbing High (1938)
Climbing High
6.0
  • Lady Constance
  • 1938

Credits

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Actress



  • Something Money Can't Buy (1952)
    Something Money Can't Buy
    5.9
    • Actress at party
    • 1952
  • Encore (1951)
    Encore
    6.9
    • Gertrude Wilmot (segment "The Ant and the Grasshopper")
    • 1951
  • Give Me the Stars
    • Patricia Worth
    • 1945
  • Grey Blake, Lesley Brook, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, Basil Radford, and Paul L. Stein in Twilight Hour (1944)
    Twilight Hour
    • Angela
    • 1944
  • Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
    Mr. Emmanuel
    6.4
    • Frau Lindström
    • 1944
  • The Lamp Still Burns (1943)
    The Lamp Still Burns
    6.1
    • Pamela Siddell
    • 1943
  • Phyllis Calvert and Robert Donat in The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
    The Young Mr. Pitt
    6.7
    • Duchess of Devonshire (uncredited)
    • 1942
  • James Mason and Mary Clare in Death Cell (1941)
    Death Cell
    7.0
    • Mollie Bennett
    • 1941
  • Dangerous Comment (1940)
    Dangerous Comment
    6.2
    Short
    • Pearl
    • 1940
  • Jessie Matthews and Michael Redgrave in Climbing High (1938)
    Climbing High
    6.0
    • Lady Constance
    • 1938
  • Incident in Shanghai
    5.1
    • Nurse Madeleine Linden
    • 1938
  • Jessie Matthews in Sailing Along (1938)
    Sailing Along
    6.5
    • Stephanie
    • 1938
  • The Cavalier of the Streets
    • Fay Avalon
    • 1937
  • Charles Farrell, Fritz Kortner, and Margaret Vyner in Bombs Over London (1937)
    Bombs Over London
    6.2
    • Mary Stevens
    • 1937
  • Diana Churchill and John Lodge in Sensation (1936)
    Sensation
    5.7
    • Claire Lindsay
    • 1936

Writer



  • The Flip Side
    TV Movie
    • play (as Margaret Williams)
    • 1967
  • ITV Play of the Week (1955)
    ITV Play of the Week
    6.6
    TV Series
    • Writer (as Margaret Williams)
    • 1960–1963
  • Double Yolk (1963)
    Double Yolk
    TV Movie
    • play
    • 1963
  • ITV Television Playhouse (1955)
    ITV Television Playhouse
    8.3
    TV Series
    • by (as Margaret Williams)
    • 1963
  • Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons in The Grass Is Greener (1960)
    The Grass Is Greener
    6.4
    • screenplay
    • play (as Margaret Williams, as Margaret Williams)
    • 1960
  • Theatre Night (1957)
    Theatre Night
    8.1
    TV Series
    • play (as Margaret Williams)
    • 1958–1959
  • Plaintiff in a Pretty Hat
    TV Movie
    • play (as Margaret Williams)
    • 1956

Personal details

  • Alternative name
    • Margaret Williams
  • Born
    • December 3, 1914
    • Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
  • Died
    • October 30, 1993
    • Reading, Berkshire, England, UK(undisclosed)
  • Spouses
      Jack Clayton1972 - ?
  • Other works
    Hugh Williams and her play, "The Irregular Verb to Love," was performed at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Celeste Holm and Christopher Reeve in the cast.

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