Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
Filmography · 42
Great Performances
1971 · Self
The Wednesday Play
1964 · The Mother
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · The Rat Wife
Playhouse
1974 · Frau Messner
Theatre 625
1964 · Rebekka West
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Queen Margaret
The 39 Steps
1935 · The Crofter's Wife Mar...
The Jewel in the Crown
1984 · Barbie Batchelor
The Nun's Story
1959 · Mother Mathilde
A Passage to India
1984 · Mrs. Moore
When the Wind Blows
1986 · Hilda Bloggs (voice)
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978 · Queen Mary
Six Centuries of Verse
1984 · Self - Reader
Playing Shakespeare
1984
A Perfect Spy
1987 · Miss Dubber
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · Mrs. Greville
Secret Ceremony
1968 · Hannah
Madame Sousatzka
1988 · Lady Emily
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Lady Tattle
The Wars of the Roses
1965 · Queen Margaret
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982 · Self
Cream in My Coffee
1980 · Jean Wilsher
Days in the Trees
1967 · The Mother
Caught on a Train
1980 · Frau Messner
Tell Me Lies
1968
Murder by the Book
1986 · Agatha Christie
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Madame Ranevsky
Little Eyolf
1982 · The Rat Wife
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978 · Queen Mary
She's Been Away
1989 · Lillian Huckle
October Revolution
1967 · Self (narrator)
Quiet Wedding
1941 · Flower Lisle
The Heat of the Day
1989 · Nettie
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978 · Lady Gee
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969 · Belle
The Pedestrian
1973 · Lady Gray
Rhodes of Africa
1936 · Anna Carpenter
Channel Incident
1940 · The Woman
Terminus
1961 · Mother (uncredited)
The Wandering Jew
1933 · Olalla Quintana (Phase...
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
Britain Welcomes the President of India
1963