Acting
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.
Titles
Great Performances
1971
BBC Play of the Month
1965
The Wednesday Play
1964
Theatre 625
1964
Playhouse
1974
Playing Shakespeare
1984
The 39 Steps
1935
The Jewel in the Crown
1984
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
A Passage to India
1984
Six Centuries of Verse
1984
The Nun's Story
1959
The Wars of the Roses
1965
When the Wind Blows
1986
A Perfect Spy
1987
Sunday Bloody Sunday
1971
Secret Ceremony
1968
The Wars of the Roses
1965
She's Been Away
1989
October Revolution
1967
Madame Sousatzka
1988
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982
Joseph Andrews
1977
Murder by the Book
1986
Cream in My Coffee
1980
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
Tell Me Lies
1968
The Cherry Orchard
1962
3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969
Caught on a Train
1980
The Wind and the Bomb
1986
Days in the Trees
1967
Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978
The Heat of the Day
1989
The Pedestrian
1973
Rhodes of Africa
1936