Henryetta Edwards obit

Henryetta Edwards, ingénue of stage and screen in the 1940s and 1950s – obituary

She was born into showbusiness royalty but her career never matched her parents’ 

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Edwards was born in Chertsey, Surrey, the daughter of actors Henry Edwards and Chrissie White.

London stage roles for Edwards included parts in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1947), I Remember Mama (1948),[2] Terrence Rattigan's The Browning Version and Harlequinade (original casts, 1948–1949), An Angel of No Importance (1949), The Trial (1950), Treasure Hunt (1950), The Attenborough Home (1953), Murder Story (1954), and Sailor Beware! (1955–1958).

Edwards appeared in the films Squibs (1935, directed by her father), She Shall Have Murder (1950), and The Feminine Touch (1956, a hospital drama from Ealing Studios; marketed as The Gentle Touch in the United States, and A Lamp is Heavy in Canada). She had roles in television adaptations of Lady from Edinburgh (1948), The Browning Version (1949), Harlequinade (1953), and Sailor Beware! (1956); she also appeared in "The Invisible Knife", an episode of the Boris Karloff series Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1955).

Edwards died in 2021, aged 95, in England. She never married.

 

Actress

Theatre Night (1957)

Theatre Night

8.8

TV Series

Shirley Hornett

1957

1 episode

 

The Gentle Touch (1956)

The Gentle Touch

5.8

Anne

1956

 

Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954)

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

7.2

TV Series

Alice

1955

1 episode

 

Man with a Million (1954)

Man with a Million

6.8

Lady Jane (uncredited)

1954

 

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

7.8

TV Series

Joyce Langland

1953

1 episode

 

Derrick De Marney and Rosamund John in She Shall Have Murder (1950)

She Shall Have Murder

7.6

Sarah Swinburne

1950

 

The Browning Version

TV Movie

Mrs. Gilbert

1949

 

Lady from Edinburgh

TV Movie

Greta

1948

 

Squibs (1935)

Squibs

5.8

Susan (uncredited)

1935