Helen Horton

Acting

Народився 28 вересня 1923, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Helen Virginia Horton (November 21, 1923 – September 28, 2007) was an American actress. She was born in Chicago and had a brief career in New York. She married Hamish Thomson and lived near London. She worked extensively in British television, radio and theatre, and had three children; her granddaughter is the English actress Lily James. Horton voiced the ship's computer, "Mother", in the 1979 film Alien. Horton attended Northwestern University where she became lifelong friends with Patricia Neal (Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still). She was well thought of in the drama department and was cast as Viola, the lead role in Twelfth Night, with Neal cast as Olivia, in a university production of the Shakespeare play. In September 1945, Horton and Neal took a shared apartment in New York and looked for work. They both got parts in a production of Seven Mirrors at the Blackfriars Theatre. Horton took over from Vivien Leigh as Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire after the play's London run was completed and it began to tour the United Kingdom. When Neal mentioned the connection to Leigh, she remarked "No one takes over for me, dear. When I leave a play, it's over."

Фільмографія

• 1990Forgotten Prisoners: The Amnesty Files — ALA Group Leader
• Пуаро Аґати Крісті — Julia Olivera
• 1988The Woman He Loved — Martha
• The Two Mrs. Grenvilles — Nurse at Playhouse
• 1985Reunion at Fairborough — Mrs Bigard
• 1984The Razor's Edge — Red Cross Lady
• 1983Супермен 3 — Miss Henderson
• 1980The Best of Friends — Mrs Lovsky
• Minder — Judge's Wife
• Tales of the Unexpected — American Passenger, Martha
• 1979Чужий — Mother (voice)
• 1977Auntie Kathleen's Old Clothes — Nancy
• 1977Widows' Nest — Ana
• Two's Company — Clare
• 1974Phase IV — Mildred Eldridge
• Centre Play — Nancy
• Anne of Green Gables — Mrs Barry
• 1972Endless Night — Aunt Beth
• Van der Valk — Mrs Lovell Wallace
• 1970The Pueblo Affair — Mrs. Bucher
• The Benny Hill Show
• 1969The Chairman — Susan Wright
• 1969The Last Shot You Hear — Dodie Rubens
• 1966Satisfaction Guaranteed — Brenda Claffern
• BBC Play of the Month — Grace Torrence
• Out of the Unknown — Brenda Claffern
• Espionage — Mrs Quade
• Hurricane — Mrs. Van Diemen
• Danger Man — Helen
• 1960Never Take Sweets from a Stranger — Sylvia Kingsley
• 1957Let's Be Happy — Sadie Whitelaw
• 1957The Mark of the Hawk — Barbara Craig
• 1957Thunder on Sycamore Street — Clarice Morrison
• 1953Strange Stories — Marie ('Strange Journey')