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    Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie, CBE (/ˈkʌmptən/; 18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978), known professionally as Fay Compton, was an English actress...
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    actors and theatre company managers; his sister, Fay Compton (whose son was Anthony Pelissier, Compton's nephew), starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays...
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    editor Fay Chung (born 1941), Zimbabwean educator Fay Compton (1894–1978), English actress Fay Coyle (1933–2007), Northern Irish footballer Fay Cravens...
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    her mother's remarriage in 1948. Reed was the granddaughter of actress Fay Compton and producer H. G. Pelissier, and of socialite Freda Dudley Ward and...
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  • Erik Compton (born 1979), Norwegian-American professional golfer F. E. Compton, publisher Fay Compton (1894–1974), English actress Francis Compton (Conservative...
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  • became interested in the stage as a young adult and enrolled at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art in 1933. From there he took a position in repertory...
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  • 1939 to 1986. Born in Buckinghamshire, in August 1918, she attended the Fay Compton School of Drama, and was a prolific theatre performer during and after...
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    Roderigo, Suzanne Cloutier as Desdemona, Michael Laurence as Cassio, Fay Compton as Emilia and Doris Dowling as Bianca. Three different versions of the...
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  • May Edginton's play "Secrets," at the Comedy Theatre in London, with Fay Compton, Henry Vibart, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Louise Hampton, Leon Quartermaine...
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  • British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi, starring Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, and Guy Middleton. The film was remade as Some Will, Some...
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  • Quartermaine appeared with Fay Compton in a West End revival of J. M. Barrie's play Quality Street. In February 1922 Quartermaine and Compton married, and remained...
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    silent film The House of Peril directed by Kenelm Foss and starring Fay Compton. Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film....
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    is a 1921 British drama film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton, Milton Rosmer, Ward McAllister, Lillian Walker, and Henry Vibart. It...
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  • drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and Geoffrey Barkas and starring Fay Compton, Tony Bruce and Carl Harbord. It is based on the 1922 novel Tell England...
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  • Negulesco and starring Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton and A. E. Matthews. Set in Victorian London, it tells the story of a...
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    Other residents of the terrace included the actresses Gladys Cooper and Fay Compton. Wallis Simpson moved into No 16 in 1936 after leaving her husband. Among...
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  • as Shell William Hartnell as Fencie the barman Fay Compton as Rosie Denis O'Dea as Inspector W. G. Fay as Father Tom Maureen Delaney as Theresa O’Brien...
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  • September 1957 by The Mousetrap. Charles Condomine – Cecil Parker Ruth – Fay Compton Elvira – Kay Hammond Madame Arcati – Margaret Rutherford Dr Bradman –...
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  • Fay Compton and Robert Flemyng. It was adapted from a novel by Elizabeth Myers. Mai Zetterling as Carol Edwards Dirk Bogarde as Stephen Mundy Fay Compton...
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  • British crime film directed by Anthony Squire and starring Donald Houston, Fay Compton and William Hartnell. The story takes place in a Cornish fishing town...
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  • Edward Compton and Virginia Frances Bateman. Her younger brother was writer Compton Mackenzie and her younger sister was actress Fay Compton. She died...
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  • directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Fay Compton and Stephen Murray. It details the life and times of Benjamin Disraeli...
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    role), Dirk Bogarde (as William Latch), Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard and Fay Compton. It was partly filmed at Folkington Manor, East Sussex. Two television...
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  • He was married twice. He was the fourth and last husband of actress Fay Compton (they divorced in 1946 after he had an affair with the actress Patricia...
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  • shady businesses from a relative. Ronald Shiner, A. E. Matthews, and Fay Compton are also featured. The film was based on the 1952 novel of the same name...
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    16 July. Among the actors in the opening season were: Lewis Casson, Fay Compton, Joan Greenwood, Rosemary Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Keith Michell, André...
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  • Connecticut. "IMDb: Francis Compton". IMDb. Retrieved 22 June 2021. Trewin, J. C. "Compton, Fay (real name Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie) (1894–1978)...
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  • Haymarket Theatre, running from 22 April 1920 to 26 February 1921, with Fay Compton as Mary Rose, a role which was written for her by Barrie. It was revived...
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    Catherine Lacey and Robert Eddison; a 1950 production with Griffith Jones, Fay Compton and Isabel Jeans; a 1954 version produced by Val Gielgud; a 1959 adaptation...
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  • sound effects. In addition to M.A. Wetherell, the film also starred Fay Compton and Herbert Waithe. It is an adaptation of the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe...
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