
Kay Walsh
Acting
🎂 1911-11-15
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kay Walsh  (born Kathleen Walsh, 15 November 1911,Chelsea, London, England; died 16 April 2005, Chelsea, London) was an English actress and dancer. She grew up in Pimlico, brought up by her grandmother. She began her career as a dancer in West End music halls. Walsh made her film debut in How's Chances? (1934) in a small part, and had a larger role in another 1934 film, Get Your Man. She continued to act in "quota quickies" films for several years. Walsh first met David Lean, then a film editor, in 1936, during the filming of Secret Of Stamboul. They began a relationship and Walsh broke off her engagement to Pownell Pellew. Walsh and Lean married on 23 November 1940. She moved on to higher-prestige films with appearances in two Noel Coward-scripted films, In Which We Serve (1942) and This Happy Breed (1944), both directed by Lean. Walsh had campaigned for Lean to receive co-director credit on In Which We Serve. Walsh contributed dialogue to the 1938 film of Pygmalion, and also devised the scenario for the closing sequence of Lean's film adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), for which she received a writing credit on the latter film. She also devised the opening sequence of Lean's adaptation of Oliver Twist (1948), as well as performing the role of Nancy. Walsh and Lean divorced in 1949, on grounds of infidelity based on Lean's relationship with Ann Todd. Walsh continued to work as a character actress in films through the 1950s, including films with Alfred Hitchcock and Ronald Neame. Her own favourite film role was that of the barmaid Miss D. Coker in Neame's 1958 film of The Horse's Mouth, with Alec Guinness. Between films, she appeared regularly in plays and farces at the Strand and Aldwych Theatres, directed by Basil Dean. She was a semi-regular on the 1979 Anglo-Polish TV series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She remained active in films until her retirement in 1981, after the film Night Crossing. Walsh later lived in retirement in London. She died at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital from multiple burns, following an accident, aged 93. Her second marriage was to the Canadian psychologist Elliott Jaques, and they adopted a daughter, Gemma, in 1956. This marriage also ended in divorce. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Walsh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Cast credits(60)

Mrs. Kross
1963

Mrs. Watson
1979

Mrs Joan Walker
1968

Harriet Bright
1965

Mrs. Morgan
1955

Mrs. Waggett
1954

Greta
1966

Dee Coker
1958

Mrs. Fezziwig
1970

Mrs. Waggett
1964

Nancy
1948

Mrs. Waggett
1963

Nellie Goode
1950

Hotel Receptionist
1952

Mrs. Piggott-Jones
1972

Queenie Gibbons
1944

Cathy Eddowes
1965

Freda Lewis / Freda
1942

Mrs. Brown
1961

Charlotte Young
1955

Mrs. Ashley
1953

Mrs. Poole
1950

1982

Mrs. Sykes
1952

Prostitute (uncredited)
1962

Mary Titterington
1960

Stephanie Bax
1966

Florence 'Fanny' Verlane
1948

Molly Newman
1947

Aunt Cissie
1970

Miss Barrow
1969

Mrs. Waggett
2008

Joan Allen
1937

Miss Molly Reid
1951

Mrs. Vera Thorne
1954

Mrs Brent
1950

Miss Muir
1956

Mrs. Brent
1970

Sadie Merivale
1940

Alison Devar
1939
Fay Eaton
1940

Matron
1963

Mrs. Freeman
1964

Barbara Crain
1954

Judy Gaye
1938

Priscilla
1953
Enid's Friend (uncredited)
1935

Joan Walker
1969
Peggy Gillette
1939

Mrs. Woodley
1965

Lily Pepper
1952

Mrs. Curlew
1962

Harriet Pembroke
1967

The Manageress
1962
Peggy Gillette
1939

Diana
1936

Eileen O'Donnell
1935

Diana
1940
Eve Payne-Coade
1936

Angela Windel-Todd
1940