Peggy Ashcroft
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 44
Great Performances
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Wednesday Play
1964
Playhouse
1974
Theatre 625
1964
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
The 39 Steps
1935
The Wars of the Roses
1965
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
When the Wind Blows
1986
The Nun's Story
1959
A Perfect Spy
1987
A Passage to India
1984
Secret Ceremony
1968
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
Playing Shakespeare
1984
Madame Sousatzka
1988
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Joseph Andrews
1977
The Cherry Orchard
1962
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
Cream in My Coffee
1980
Days in the Trees
1967
Tell Me Lies
1968
October Revolution
1967
The Wars of the Roses
1965
Caught on a Train
1980
Murder by the Book
1986
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978
The Heat of the Day
1989
Little Eyolf
1982
She's Been Away
1989
Rhodes of Africa
1936
From Chekhov with Love
1968
The Wandering Jew
1933
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
Channel Incident
1940
The Pedestrian
1973
We Serve
1942
Quiet Wedding
1941
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
Britain Welcomes the President of India
1963
Terminus
1961