Margaret Burton (actress)
Margaret Burton | |
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| Born | 18 March 1924 Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Died | 23 November 1984 (aged 60) Hove, East Sussex, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Actor and singer |
| Spouse(s) | Michael Garvey (m. 1979–1984), Arnold Moseley (m. 1952–1960), David Nixon (m. 1947–1950)[1] |
Margaret Burton (1924–1984) was an English actress who appeared in roughly a dozen British films between 1964 and 1985, including in Sex and the Other Woman (1972) and Secrets of a Superstud (1976), and in the TV series The Tomorrow People.[2][3][4]
Career[]
Burton trained at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and had a successful musical comedy career in the theatre, including as principal boy in pantomime at the London Palladium in 1954, and as Louella Parsons in Marilyn! the Musical at the Adelphi Theatre in 1983.[5][6][7]
On TV, she played Gordon's mother in the Last of the Summer Wine episode "Going to Gordon's Wedding" (1976), and appeared in four episodes of Coronation Street in 1980 as Poppy Watts.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Harrogate actress in secret Sellers affair". ripongazette.co.uk.
- ^ "Margaret Burton". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Margaret Burton". aveleyman.com.
- ^ "A Man for Emily[23/04/75] (1975)". BFI.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Peter Sellers' secret love revealed". The Argus.
- ^ "Margaret Burton | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Marilyn! (1983-03-Adelphi Theatre-London)". musicalsworld.be.
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Categories:
- British film actresses
- 1924 births
- 1984 deaths
- 20th-century British actresses
- British musical theatre actresses
- British stage actresses
- British television actresses