Henryetta Edwards
Born
Chrissie Henryetta Edwards

1 January 1926
Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK
Died1 May 2021 (aged 95)
UK
OccupationActress
Parent(s)Henry Edwards and Chrissie White

Henryetta Edwards (1 January 1926 – 1 May 2021) was a British actress on the London stage, and in films and television, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s.

Early life

Edwards was born in Chertsey, Surrey, the daughter of actors Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.[1]

Career

London stage roles for Edwards included parts in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1947), I Remember Mama (1948),[2] Terrence Rattigan's The Browning Version and Harlequinade (original casts, 1948–1949),[3] An Angel of No Importance (1949),[4] The Trial (1950), Treasure Hunt (1950),[5] The Attenborough Home (1953), Murder Story (1954), and Sailor Beware! (1955–1958).[6]

Edwards appeared in the films Squibs (1935, directed by her father), She Shall Have Murder (1950),[7] and The Feminine Touch (1956, a hospital drama from Ealing Studios;[8] marketed as The Gentle Touch in the United States, and A Lamp is Heavy in Canada).[9][10] She had roles in television adaptations of Lady from Edinburgh (1948), The Browning Version (1949), Harlequinade (1953), and Sailor Beware! (1956); she also appeared in "The Invisible Knife", an episode of the Boris Karloff series Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955).[11]

Personal life

Edwards died in 2021, aged 95, in England. She never married.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ Murphy, Robert (25 July 2019). Directors in British and Irish Cinema: A Reference Companion. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-532-8.
  2. ^ Brown, Ivor (7 March 1948). "Mum's The Word". The Observer. p. 2. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "The Browning Version and Harlequinade". Billboard. 12 March 1949. p. 55.
  4. ^ Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 313, 358, 386–387, 473. ISBN 978-0-8108-9306-1.
  5. ^ "Opera House: 'Treasure Hunt'". The Guardian. 1950-09-26. p. 3. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Wearing, J. P. (16 September 2014). The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 14–15, 224, 315, 357. ISBN 978-0-8108-9308-5.
  7. ^ Gifford, Denis (1 April 2016). British Film Catalogue: Two Volume Set - The Fiction Film/The Non-Fiction Film. Routledge. p. 576. ISBN 978-1-317-74063-6.
  8. ^ "Ealing Studios: The Feminine Touch". Evening Standard. 7 January 2016. pp. A48. Retrieved 12 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Duguid, Mark; Freeman, Lee; Johnston, Keith; Williams, Melanie (31 October 2012). Ealing Revisited. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 192, 278–279. ISBN 978-1-84457-719-4.
  10. ^ Blum, Daniel (1958). Screen World. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-8196-0264-0.
  11. ^ Nollen, Scott Allen (4 January 2021). Karloff and the East: Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern and Oceanian Characters and Subjects in His Screen Career. McFarland. pp. 391–392. ISBN 978-1-4766-4086-0.
  12. ^ "Obituary: Henryetta Edwards". TheStage.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2021.(subscription required)
  13. ^ "Henryetta Edwards, ingénue of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 June 2021. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 12 December 2021.

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