Barbara Waring (née Barbara Alice Waring Gibb; 1 August 1911 – April 1990) was an English actress, screenwriter, and playwright.
Biography
Barbara Alice Waring Gibb was born on 1 August 1911 in Kent, England, the daughter of Dr. J. A. Gibb.[1] She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art,[2] and was an actress in the 1930s and 1940s.
In the late 1930s she married Laurence A. Evans, a theatrical agent.[1] They divorced and in 1947 she married the Hon. Geoffrey Cunliffe, son of Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, and Edith Cunningham Boothby, and Chairman of British Aluminium.[2][1]
In 1963, she wrote the script for Two by the Sea and in 1974 that for Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies.[3] In 1967, she wrote the play The Jaywalker, performed at Coventry Cathedral with music by Duke Ellington.[2]
She died in April 1990, aged 78, in Surrey, England.
Appearances
- 1935: His Majesty and Company as Princess Sandra
- 1935: The Girl in the Crowd as Mannequin
- 1942: In Which We Serve as Mrs MacAdoo, written by Noël Coward and directed by Noël Coward and David Lean
- 1943: The Gentle Sex as Joan Simpson, directed and narrated by Leslie Howard
- 1944: A Canterbury Tale as Polly Finn
- 1944: Heaven Is Round the Corner as Dorothy Trevor
- 1945: Twilight Hour as Gladys
- 1947: Hungry Hill as Barbara Brodrick, with a screenplay by Terence Young and Daphne du Maurier, from the novel by Daphne du Maurier[4]
References
- 1 2 3 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
- 1 2 3 "Barbara Waring, Cavalcade, The Gentle Sex and Duke Ellington". elvirabarney. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ↑ "Barbara Waring". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ↑ "Barbara Waring". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 24, 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.