Acting • AGE 84
From Wikipedia Fay Compton CBE (18 September 1894 – 12 December 1978) was an English actress from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, ...


I Start Counting
Mrs. Bennett
1970

The Virgin and the Gypsy
Grandma
1970

Dombey and Son
Mrs. Brown
1969

Journey to the Unknown
Queen Victoria
1968

Cold Comfort Farm
Aunt Ada Doom (Starkadder)
1968

The Forsyte Saga
'Aunt Ann' Forsyte
1967

Uncle Vanya
Marya, the mother
1963

The Haunting
Mrs. Sanderson
1963

Maigret
1960

No Hiding Place
1959

The Story of Esther Costello
Mother Superior
1957

Town on Trial
Mrs. Crowley
1957

Armchair Theatre
1956

Aunt Clara
Gladys Smith
1954

The Vanquished
Mrs. Pinkerton
1953

Lady Possessed
Mme. Brune
1952

Othello
Emilia
1951

Laughter in Paradise
Agnes Russell
1951

Blackmailed
Mrs. Christopher
1951

The Forbidden Street
Mrs. Culver
1949

London Belongs to Me
Mrs. Josser
1948

Esther Waters
Mrs. Barfield
1948

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Mme. Mantalini
1947

Odd Man Out
Rosie
1947

The Prime Minister
Queen Victoria
1941

So This Is London
Lady Worthing
1939

The Mill on the Floss
Mrs. Tulliver
1937

Waltzes from Vienna
Countess Helga von Stahl
1934

Autumn Crocus
Jenny Grey
1934

Tell England
Mrs. Doe
1931

Uneasy Virtue
Dorothy Rendell
1931

Cape Forlorn
Eileen Kell
1931

Fashions in Love
Marie de Remy
1929

Somehow Good
Rosalind Nightingale
1927

Robinson Crusoe
Sophie
1927

Claude Duval
Duchess Frances
1924

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Stuart
1924

A Bill of Divorcement
Margaret Fairfield
1922

A Woman of No Importance
Rachel Arbuthnot
1921