Googie Withers

Withers was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002. His most notable works to date are in the 1990 film Lord of the Flies based on the William Golding novel, and playing Chase Edmunds alongside Kiefer Sutherland in the third season of Fox TV series 24 (2003–2004). Withers' most recent screen performance was as the music teacher in the film Shine (1996) for which she and the other cast members were nominated for a Screen Actors Guild for "Outstanding Performance By A Cast". James Badge Dale is an American actor and son of Anita Morris and Grover Dale. They are the parents of the actors Nicholas McCallum and Joanna McCallum. Married to Australian actor John McCallum since 1948, the couple met on a film set in Britain, and returned to Australia where both worked frequently in television together and appeared in a number of stage productions.

Throughout her career she has appeared frequently in film, television, and theater. Among her successes of the 1940s was One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942), a topical World War II drama in which she played a resistance fighter who helps British airmen return to safety from behind enemy lines. Her best known work of the period was as one of Margaret Lockwood's friends in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). During the 1930s she was constantly in demand in lead roles in minor films and supporting roles in more prestigious productions.

She arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed, and she was immediately asked to step into the role. She was a dancer in a West End production when she was offered work as a film extra. Born Georgette Lizette Withers she began acting at the age of 12. Googie Withers (born March 12, 1917 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a British actress.