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Wendy Hiller

Wendy Hiller

Highest Rated: 100% I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

Lowest Rated: 40% Toys in the Attic (1963)

Birthday: Aug 15, 1912

Birthplace: Bramhall, Cheshire, England, UK

Academy Award-winning Dame Wendy Hiller began her career with the Manchester Repertory Theatre at the age of 18 and, after leaving to tour the provinces for awhile, returned there to act in "Love on the Dole," adapted from the Walter Greenwood novel by her future husband Ronald Gow. A seven-month tour of Lancashire and Yorkshire preceded its successful 1935 London run, which brought her to the attention of playwright George Bernard Shaw who, noting something special in the actress, became her mentor and friend. Following her 1936 Broadway debut in "Love on the Dole" and with only six rehearsals for each show, Hiller portrayed both "Saint Joan" and Eliza Doolittle in "Pygmalion" at that year's Malvern Theatre Festival honoring Shaw's 80th birthday. Though a proposed movie version with her as "Saint Joan" never materialized, she did play (at Shaw's insistence) both Eliza in "Pygmalion" (1938) and the title role of "Major Barbara" (1941), delivering two unforgettable film performances forever linked to her name.

Highest rated movies

100% The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
100% I Know Where I'm Going!
95% Pygmalion
93% Major Barbara
92% The Elephant Man 90% Murder on the Orient Express 89% A Man for All Seasons
77% Voyage of the Damned

Photos

I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, 1945 THE ELEPHANT MAN, Wendy Hiller, 1980, (c) Paramount MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, Wendy Hiller, 1974 PYGMALION, Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, 1938 PYGMALION, Wendy Hiller, Leslie Howard, 1938 PYGMALION, Wendy Hiller, 1938 PYGMALION, Wendy Hiller, 1938 SEPARATE TABLES, Wendy Hiller, 1958. SEPARATE TABLES, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, 1958 SEPARATE TABLES, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, 1958 SONS AND LOVERS, Wendy Hiller, 1960, ©20th Century Fox, TM & Copyright TOYS IN THE ATTIC, Wendy Hiller, 1963 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, Wendy Hiller, 1966 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, 1945 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, 1945 MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A, Robert Shaw, Corin Redgrave, Susannah York, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, 1966 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Wendy Hiller, 1945 MAJOR BARBARA, Robert Morley, Wendy Hiller, George Bernard Shaw, Shaw's secretary Blanche Patch, director and producer Gabriel Pascal, at Shaw's home, 1941 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING!, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, 1945 MAJOR BARBARA, Wendy Hiller, Robert Newton, 1941
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Countess Alice Countess Alice von Holzendorf (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Best of Friends Laurentia McLachlan (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ending Up Adela (Character) - 1989
100% 77% The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Aunt D'Arcy (Character) $82.7K 1987
No Score Yet 93% Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (Anne of Avonlea) Mrs. Harris (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Death of the Heart Matchett (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 80% Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy Princess Victoria (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet 67% All Passion Spent Unknown (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Kingfisher Evelyn (Character) - 1982
56% 58% Making Love Winnie Bates (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 83% Miss Morrison's Ghosts Miss Elizabeth Morison (Character) - 1981
92% 93% The Elephant Man Mothershead (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 30% The Cat and the Canary Allison Crosby (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet King Richard the Second Duchess of York (Character) - 1978
77% 52% Voyage of the Damned Rebecca Weiler (Character) - 1976
90% 78% Murder on the Orient Express Princess Dragomiroff (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 31% David Copperfield Mrs. Micawber (Character) - 1969
89% 87% A Man for All Seasons Alice More (Character) - 1966
40% 54% Toys in the Attic Anna Berniers (Character) - 1963
67% 49% Sons and Lovers Mrs. Morel (Character) - 1960
67% 76% Separate Tables Pat Cooper (Character) - 1958
50% 48% Something of Value Elizabeth (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet How to Murder a Rich Uncle Edith Clitterburn (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 50% Sailor of the King Lucinda Bentley (Character) - 1953
100% 82% I Know Where I'm Going! Joan Webster (Character) - 1945
93% 55% Major Barbara Major Barbara Undershaft (Character) - 1941
95% 85% Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle (Character) - 1938

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet All Passion Spent Lady Slane (Character) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of the Unexpected Louisa (Character) 1979
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Laura Siddons (Character) 1959