- Moira Lister
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Moira Lister 
Born August 6, 1923
Cape Town, South AfricaDied 27 October 2007 (aged 84)
Cape Town, South AfricaOccupation Actress Spouse Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomte d’Orthez Moira Lister de Gachassin-Lafite, Vicomtesse d’Orthez (6 August 1923 – 27 October 2007) was an Anglo-South African film, stage and television actress, and writer.
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Early life
Born in Cape Town to Major James Lister and Margaret (née Hogan), Lister was educated at the Parktown Convent of the Holy Family, Johannesburg.[1]
Career
She began her acting career on stage in South Africa and then went on to act in the London theatre at the age of 18.[2] Lister began working in films in 1944, and appeared in such films as The Limping Man, The Cruel Sea and The Deep Blue Sea.
She had a regular role in the first series of the BBC radio comedy Hancock's Half Hour in 1954-55.[3] She starred in the BBC television series The Whitehall Worrier and The Very Merry Widow from 1967 to 1968.[4] (Later series of this programme were titled The Very Merry Widow — and How!) Lister also appeared on various other British TV series such as Danger Man. In 1980, she made a guest appearance as film star Gloria Robbins in the sitcom Only When I Laugh.
Lister was performing until three years before her death, touring with her highly successful one-woman show about Noël Coward.
Affiliations
She belonged to the British Catholic Stage Guild.
Naledi Award
She had been awarded the Naledi Award, a lifetime achievement award for her services to the theatre in South Africa.[5]
Honours
- Best Actress of the Year (1971)
- Freedom of the City of London (2000)
Personal life
In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.
Both she and her husband are buried in the churchyard of St Edward's Catholic church in Sutton Green, Surrey.
Publications
- The Very Merry Moira (1971)
Filmography
- Shipbuilders (1944)
- Love Story (1944)
- The Agitator (1945)
- My Ain Folk (1945)
- Don Chicago (1945)
- Wanted for Murder (1946)
- Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947) - uncredited
- Uneasy Terms (1948)
- So Evil My Love (1948)
- Frieda (1948, TV)
- Another Shore (1948)
- Once a Jolly Swagman(1949)
- A Run for Your Money (1949)
- Pool of London (1951)
- Files from Scotland Yard (1951)
- Mon phoque et elles (My Seal and Them) (1951)
- White Corridors (1951)
- Something Money Can't Buy (1952)
- The Cruel Sea (1953)
- Grand National Night (1953)
- The Limping Man (1953)
- Trouble in Store (1953)
- John and Julie (1955)
- The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
- Seven Waves Away (1957)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
- Joey Boy (1965)
- The Double Man (1967)
- Stranger in the House (1967)
- Not Now, Darling (film) (1973)
- Ten Little Indians (1989)
- The Finding (1990 TV)
- The 10th Kingdom (2000 TV)
- Sterne über Madeira (2005 TV)
- Flood (film) (2007)
References
- ^ Moira Lister (obituary) 30 October 2007. The Telegraph.
- ^ Jani Allan (1980s). Face Value. Longstreet.
- ^ Moira Lister (obituary) The Guardian. 30 October 2007
- ^ Moira Lister (obituary) The Times. 30 October 2007
- ^ Moira Lister (obituary) The Independent. 29 October 2007
External links
Categories:- 1923 births
- 2007 deaths
- Anglo-African people
- British film actors
- British radio actors
- British Roman Catholics
- British television actors
- Cancer deaths in South Africa
- People from London
- People from Cape Town
- South African expatriates in the United Kingdom
- South African Roman Catholics
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