Elspeth March
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March in an episode of One Step Beyond (1961)
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| Born | Jean Elspeth Mackenzie (1911-03-05)5 March 1911 |
| Died | 29 April 1999(1999-04-29) (aged 88)
Northwood, Greater London, England
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| Occupation | Actress |
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(m. 1938; div. 1948) |
| Children | 2 |
March was born as Jean Elspeth MackenzieinKensington, London, England, the daughter of Harry Malcolm and Elfreda Mackenzie. She studied speech and drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London.[3]
She led a long stage, film and television career as a character actress, making her professional debut in Jonah and the Whale at London's Westminster Theatre in 1932. She met and married actor Stewart Granger in 1938. As his film career blossomed, the marriage faltered and the couple divorced in 1948. They had a son, Jamie and a daughter, the theatrical agent Lindsey Granger, who died in 2011.[4]
She resumed her career in 1944 and continued to play supporting roles in plays, films and television into her eighties. She appeared with the National Theatre in 1977, playing roles in The Madras House and Don Juan Comes Back from the War, and in 1983 was in the thriller UndergroundinToronto and at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.[5]
She died in Hillingdon, London, aged 88.[6]
