Dulcie Gray

Dulcie Gray
CBE
With her husband, Michael Denison
when they were acting together in
The Franchise Affair (1951)
Born
Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Bailey

20 November 1915
Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Died15 November 2011(2011-11-15) (aged 95)
Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England
Occupation(s)Actress, mystery writer
Years active1939–2002
Spouse
Michael Denison
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(m. 1939; died 1998)​

Dulcie Winifred Catherine Savage Denison, CBE (née Bailey; 20 November 1915[n 1] – 15 November 2011), known professionally as Dulcie Gray, was a British actress, mystery writer and lepidopterist.

While at drama school in the late 1930s she met a fellow student, Michael Denison. They married in 1939 and were together for 59 years before his death in 1998. The couple's professional careers were intertwined; in their early years they appeared in several films together and throughout their careers they frequently acted on stage together. Although she was well known for her starring roles in films of the late 1940s and early 1950s, most of Gray's career was in the theatre. Her range was extensive, and she appeared in Shakespeare, farce, thrillers, classics by Sheridan, Wilde, Chekhov, Shaw and Coward, absurdist drama, and numerous new plays. In the 1980s she became well known to British television viewers when she starred in a long-running soap opera, Howards' Way.

Alongside her acting career Gray was a prolific author, writing more than twenty books, mostly crime stories, but also non-crime novels, a volume of memoirs, a biography of J. B. Priestley and an award-winning book about butterflies, a lifelong interest of hers.

  1. ^ Parker, pp. iii and iv
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  3. ^ Herbert, p. 853


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