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((Short description|British actress (1928–1990)))
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((Infobox person
| image        = Valerie French in Jubal trailer.jpg
| caption      =French in the 1956 film ''[[Jubal (film)|Jubal]]''
| name         = Valerie French
| birth_name   = Valerie Harrison
| birth_date   = ((Birth date|1928|03|11|df=y))
| birth_place  = [[London]], UK
| death_date   = ((Death date and age|1990|11|03|1928|03|11|df=y))
| death_place  = [[New York City]], US
| spouse       = [[Michael Pertwee]] (1952–1959)<br/>[[Thayer David]] (1970–1975)
| occupation   = Actress
| years_active = 1954–1982
))

'''Valerie French''' (born '''Valerie Harrison'''; 11 March 1928 [or 1932] &ndash; 3 November 1990) was an English film and stage actress whose career began in 1954, with much of it occurring in 1956.

==Career==
French was born in [[London]] to Frank Orvin Percy Harrison and Muriel Clare, née Smith.<ref>Who's Who in the Theatre, sixteenth edition, ed. John Parker, Pitman, 1981, p. 631</ref> Her father was an accountant who had served as a Lieutenant with the [[Artists Rifles]] regiment in the [[First World War]].<ref>The Incorporated Accountants' Year Book, Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors (Great Britain), 1928, p. 72</ref><ref>Accountancy, vol. 70, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 1938, p. 111</ref><ref>The Regimental Roll of Honour and War Record of the Artists' Rifles, S. Stagoll Higham, Howlett, 1922, p. 403</ref>

She considered her "real start in the theatre" to have been at the [[Theatre Royal, Windsor]] in Berkshire, England.<ref>((cite news |last1=Bower |first1=Helen |title=Career Began In Windsor (Eng.) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21900945/valerie_french/ |work=Detroit Free Press |date=April 10, 1956 |location=Michigan, Detroit |page=21|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 15, 2018)) ((Open access))</ref>

She moved into film acting in her early twenties. Her first film appearance was in a minor role in the [[1954 in film|1954]] Italian film ''[[Maddalena (1954 film)|Maddalena]]''. After a role in the British film ''[[The Constant Husband]]'' (1955), she moved to Hollywood.<ref name=col/>

Her best-remembered roles during this period were in [[western (genre)|western films]] such as ''[[Jubal (film)|Jubal]]'' in [[1956 in film|1956]] opposite [[Glenn Ford]] and ''[[Decision at Sundown]]'' opposite [[Randolph Scott]] in [[1957 in film|1957]]. She also appeared in the science fiction film ''[[The 27th Day]]'' (1957).

Her television roles included episode No. 61 of ''[[Have Gun – Will Travel]]'', ''[[The Prisoner]]'' episode "[[Living in Harmony (The Prisoner)|Living in Harmony]]", and episode No. 31, "Sweetwater, Texas", of ''[[Trackdown (TV series)|Trackdown]]'' (1957). She later appeared in daytime television shows, including two roles on ''[[The Edge of Night]]'', ''[[The Nurses (ABC TV series)|The Nurses]]'', and (briefly) ''[[All My Children]]''.((citation needed|date=June 2017))

==Theatre==
French returned to the theatre in the 1960s. She performed in a Broadway production of [[John Osborne]]'s play ''[[Inadmissible Evidence]]'' in 1965 and was also in ''Help Stamp Out Marriage!'' in 1966. She caused a minor sensation by appearing on stage naked in ''The Mother Lover'' at the [[Booth Theatre]] in 1969, though only her back was visible to the audience.<ref name=col/>

==Personal life==
French was married twice. In 1952, at the age of 24, she married the playwright [[Michael Pertwee]] (b. 1916). They divorced seven years later.<ref name="col"/>

In 1970, at the age of 42, French married the actor [[Thayer  David]] (b. 1927). They divorced five years later. They later got back together and were planning to remarry at the time of his death in 1978.<ref name="col"/>

French died of [[leukemia]] in New York City in 1990, aged 62. Some sources say she was born in 1932<ref>((cite web |url=http://archives.nypl.org/controlaccess/185643?term=French%2C+Valerie%2C+1932-1990 |work=[[New York Public Library|NYPL archives]] |title=Valerie French papers |access-date=19 March 2023))</ref> and was 59 when she died.<ref name = "col">((cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/06/obituaries/valerie-french-59-actress-who-played-english-characters.html |title=Valerie French, 59, Actress Who Played English Characters |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 6, 1990 |access-date=19 March 2023))</ref>

==Filmography==
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* ''[[Maddalena (1954 film)|Maddalena]]'' (1954)
* ''[[Happy Ever After (1954 film)|Happy Ever After]]'' (1954)
* ''[[The Constant Husband]]'' (1955)
* ''[[Jubal (film)|Jubal]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Secret of Treasure Mountain]]'' (1956)
* ''[[The Garment Jungle]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Decision at Sundown]]'' (1957)
* ''[[The 27th Day]]'' (1957)
* ''[[The Hard Man]]'' (1957)
* ''[[The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake]]'' (1959)
* ''[[Shalako (film)|Shalako]]'' (1968)
((div col end))
* ''[[The Prisoner]] (TV series episode 14)

==References==
((Portal|Biography|Theatre|Film))
((reflist))

==External links==
*((IMDb name|0294227|Valerie French))
*((IBDB name|41335))
* ((iobdb name|9652))
*[http://archives.nypl.org/the/18878 Valerie French papers], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, [[New York Public Library for the Performing Arts]]

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[[Category:20th-century births]]
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[[Category:English film actresses]]
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[[Category:English television actresses]]
[[Category:Actresses from London]]
[[Category:Deaths from leukemia in New York (state)]]
[[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
[[Category:Western (genre) television actors]]
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