Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an early age to become an actress, despite parental opposition.
43 acting credits
Acting · 43
Great Performances
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Playhouse
1974
Theatre 625
1964
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
The Nun's Story
1959
A Perfect Spy
1987
The 39 Steps
1935
A Passage to India
1984
When the Wind Blows
1986
The Wars of the Roses
1965
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Madame Sousatzka
1988
Secret Ceremony
1968
The Wars of the Roses
1965
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
The Cherry Orchard
1962
Caught on a Train
1980
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978
The Wandering Jew
1933
Joseph Andrews
1977
She's Been Away
1989
Cream in My Coffee
1980
Tell Me Lies
1968
Quiet Wedding
1941
The Heat of the Day
1989
Murder by the Book
1986
Rhodes of Africa
1936
Terminus
1961
We Serve
1942
The Pedestrian
1973
Channel Incident
1940
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
October Revolution
1967
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
Little Eyolf
1982
Laurence Olivier: a life
1982
From Chekhov with Love
1968
Britain Welcomes the President of India
1963
Days in the Trees
1967