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Dorothy Hyson is a Actor American born on 24 december 1914 at Chicago (USA)

Dorothy Hyson

Dorothy Hyson
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Birth name Dorothy Wardell Heisen
Nationality USA
Birth 24 december 1914 at Chicago (USA)
Death 23 may 1996 (at 81 years)

Dorothy Hyson, Lady Quayle (December 24, 1914 – May 23, 1996) was an American film and stage actress, born Dorothy Wardell Heisen in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of actress Dorothy Dickson and matinée idol Carl Hyson (né Heisen). She led a successful stage career.

She was married twice:


The actor Robert Douglas (1935 – 1945)
The actor and director Sir Anthony Quayle (1947 – 1989); (two daughters Jenny and Rosanna, and a son Christopher).
She worked at the secret codebreaking establishment Bletchley Park during World War II, and though married to Robert Douglas was visited there by her (later) second husband Anthony Quayle. Quayle recalled that:


She had gone to work as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. I went to see her there and found her ill and exhausted with the long night shifts.
She was a byword for theatrical West End glamour and after the war returned to the West End, joining John Gielgud’s Haymarket Company in 1945. She married Quayle in 1947 after divorcing Douglas, and soon after retired from the stage to concentrate on bringing up their children.

She was widowed in 1989 and died from a stroke on May 23, 1996, in England, a year after the death of her mother, who died at age 102.

It is not known whether she ever relinquished her American citizenship and/or became a British subject.

Usually with

Michael Balcon
Michael Balcon
(6 films)
Basil Dearden
Basil Dearden
(2 films)
Tom Walls
Tom Walls
(2 films)
Roger MacDougall
Roger MacDougall
(2 films)
D. A. Clarke-Smith
D. A. Clarke-Smith
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dorothy Hyson (9 films)

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Actress

Spare a Copper
Spare a Copper (1940)
, 1h17
Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Musical films, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, Warburton Gamble, Bernard Lee, John Turnbull, George Merritt
Roles Jane Gray
Rating61% 3.0514053.0514053.0514053.0514053.051405
Formby plays a bumbling War Reservist police officer called George Carter who aspires to become a member of the flying squad. The film is set in Merseyside where the battleship HMS Hercules is being built. A group of saboteurs are planning to destroy HMS Hercules by blowing it up. George manages to foil the saboteurs' attempts to destroy HMS Hercules, saving the battleship from being blown up by saboteurs. One of the saboteurs, called "Jake", is played by Bernard Lee.
Now You're Talking
Now You're Talking (1940)
, 11minutes
Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Sebastian Shaw, Edward Chapman, Judy Campbell, Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt, George Relph
Roles Mrs Hampton
Rating58% 2.9458852.9458852.9458852.9458852.945885
Film de propagande sur les dangers d'un bavardage en temps de guerre.
A Cup of Kindness
A Cup of Kindness (1934)
, 1h21
Directed by Tom Walls
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Tom Walls, Dorothy Hyson, Claude Hulbert, D. A. Clarke-Smith, Eva Moore, J. Fisher White
Roles Betty Ramsbottom
Rating60% 3.0052753.0052753.0052753.0052753.005275
The son and daughter of two feuding families announce they are getting married to widespread uproar.
The Ghoul
The Ghoul (1933)
, 1h17
Directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Ghost films, Films based on plays
Actors Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Ralph Richardson, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell
Roles Betty Harlon
Rating57% 2.8980052.8980052.8980052.8980052.898005
Gaumont British borrowed just the vaguest outline from the 1928 source novel by Frank King (and subsequent play by King and Leonard J. Hines). King's novel is sub-par Edgar Wallace in which a master criminal popularly referred to as 'The Ghoul' has been responsible for a London crime wave. Betty inherits an estate on the Yorkshire moors from a mysterious benefactor, Edward Morlant, a dabbler in mysticism who years before had been her mother's paramour. But the will requires Betty to take up residence in the old house, where Morlant's corpse soon appears, walking and talking. Morlant tells her that he is an immortal adept and demands the return of his secret diary. The usual suspects and interlopers converge on the house, and upon Morlant's next appearance his resurrected self is killed anew, unquestionably stabbed through the heart. Morlant is soon perambulating again, as people begin turning up dead. All supernatural trappings are dispelled as 'The Ghoul' is penultimately unmasked as Edward Morlant's twin brother, James, a criminal mastermind whose fictive guises included not only his brother, but a bogus police sergeant and his brother's solicitor, Broughton. In a final act of madness, James torches the mansion.