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Margaret Leighton, CBE (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy (her first credited film role), Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury ...
Actress: The Go-Between. Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired British award-winning theatre actress Margaret Leighton was born in Worchestershire, England, on February 26, 1922, the daughter of a businessman. Expressing an early desire to act, she quit school at age 15 and auditioned and joined Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
- February 26, 1922
- January 13, 1976
30 Photos. Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired British award-winning theatre actress Margaret Leighton was born in Worchestershire, England, on February 26, 1922, the daughter of a businessman. Expressing an early desire to act, she quit school at age 15 and auditioned and joined Sir Barry Jackson 's Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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- Barnt Green, Worcestershire, England, UK
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- Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
Born on February 26, 1922, near Birmingham, England; died on January 13, 1976; eldest daughter and one of threechildren (two girls and a boy) of Augustus George Leighton (a businessman) and Doris Isobel (Evans) Leighton; attended the Church of England College, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England; married.
Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy, Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, Franklin J. Schaffner's The ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Margaret Leighton (born Feb. 26, 1922, Barnt Green, near Birmingham, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Jan. 13, 1976, Chichester, West Sussex) was an English actress of stage and screen noted for her versatility in classic and contemporary roles.
Margaret Leighton. February 26, 1922 — January 13, 1976 • 53 y.o. (102) Life and career. Personal life. Leighton began her career on stage in 1938, before joining the Old Vic and making her Broadway debut in 1946. A four-time Tony Award nominee, she twice won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play: for the original Broadway productions ...
